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FEX 2505 Released With Many Fixes For Running x86_64 Binaries On Linux AArch64

Phoronix - Tue, 05/06/2025 - 04:51
FEX 2505 is out today as the newest version of this user-space software that enables running x86_64 binaries on ARM64/AArch64 Linux hosts with great speed that a number of games and applications are enjoying much success with this emulator...

Redox OS Seeing More Software Porting, Many Internal Improvements

Phoronix - Tue, 05/06/2025 - 02:25
The open-source, Rust-based Redox OS operating system has published their April 2025 status report to outline interesting changes made over the past several weeks to this innovative project...

21-Way Intel Core / AMD Ryzen Linux Laptop Comparison On Ubuntu 25.04

Phoronix - Mon, 05/05/2025 - 22:32
As part of fresh re-testing of existing laptops on-hand given the recent release of Ubuntu 25.04 and then also recent Linux reviews of some interesting models like the Framework Laptop 13 with AMD Strix Point and the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 Aura Edition, I have been running a lot of Linux laptop benchmarks the past few weeks. I ended up taking things a bit further after those reviews and have now extended it to a 21-way laptop comparison of AMD Ryzen and Intel Core SoCs from the past few generations in looking at their performance on Ubuntu 25.04 across more than 200 benchmarks.

New Patches Aim To Modernize The Default Linux x86 Kernel Configuration

Phoronix - Mon, 05/05/2025 - 20:43
Longtime Linux kernel developer Ingo Molnar sent out a patch series this morning to enable additional kernel features by default for the Linux default configuration "defconfig" on x86-based kernels. The defconfig improvements aim to reflect modern Linux x86 kernel use with various features commonly being enabled by distribution vendor kernels and related improvements...

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