Intel Details Thunderbolt 4 With More Capabilities, USB4 Compatibility
Intel has today made public more details on their next-generation Thunderbolt connectivity that brings more features while offering USB4 specification compliance. Thunderbolt 4 is coming with forthcoming Tiger Lake laptops...
Intel Architectural LBR Support Going Into Linux 5.9
Intel CPUs have long supported LBR for last branch records as a means of recording the branches to which software has taken along with exposing other control flow information. This has relied upon model-specific registers while with future Intel CPUs this is being folded into a more universal CPU architectural feature. Support for Intel "Arch LBR" is set to come later this year with the Linux 5.9 kernel...
Fedora Developers Evaluating Compression Options For Btrfs-By-Default Proposal
The proposal for using Btrfs by default on the Fedora desktop is gaining a fair amount of traction and interest from the community and could possibly move ahead but further testing and decisions are still to be made...
GNOME Shell + Mutter 3.37.3 Are Out Roaring With Better Performance
Released on Tuesday was GNOME 3.37.3 but missing the mark in time for that proper milestone were the all important GNOME Shell and Mutter components. But a few hours past the mark, they were released and come with some big changes...
Panfrost Gallium3D Driver Adds Midgard Multi-Sampling Support
The Panfrost Gallium3D driver providing open-source OpenGL support for Arm Mali graphics hardware now has working multi-sample anti-aliasing (MSAA) for Arm Midgard hardware...
NVIDIA CUDA 11.0 Released With Ampere Support, New Programming Features
NVIDIA appears to have quietly promoted CUDA 11.0 to its stable channel...
PTGui Panorama Photo Stitching Software Ported To Linux
PTGui as one of the leading panorama photo stitching software programs on Windows and macOS has finally been ported to Linux...
Gentoo On Android 64-Bit Sees New Release After 2+ Years
Gentoo's Project Android is out with a new stage3 Android prefix tarball for those wanting to enjoy a Gentoo experience atop a rooted Android device...
"ATGC" Aims To Offer Greater Garbage Collection Efficiency For F2FS
F2FS as the Flash-Friendly File-System for Linux continues to see a lot of interesting developments for this file-system beginning to appear on more Android devices and elsewhere given its feature set from flash optimizations to native encryption and compression capabilities...
Summing Up AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT vs. Core i9 10900K, Ryzen 5 3600XT vs. Core i5 10600K
Complementing this morning's AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT / Ryzen 7 3800XT / Ryzen 9 3900XT Linux benchmarks, here is a side-by-side look at the Ryzen 9 3900XT up against the Core i9 10900K and the Ryzen 5 3600XT up against the Core i5 10600K for these competing processors. This is a quick look at how these competing models stack up