AMD EPYC 7F72 vs. Intel Xeon Gold 6258R - Latest EPYC Rome vs. Xeon Cascade Lake Benchmarks
Following the Xeon Gold 6250 vs. EPYC 7F32 benchmarks from earlier this month, here is a look at the latest x86_64 server CPUs we have our hands on with the EPYC 7F72 and Xeon Gold 6258R being benchmarked against a lineup of other competing AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon processors under the new Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
Improved EXT4 + XFS DAX Implementation Appears Ready To Go For Linux 5.8
Adding to the expected changes for Linux 5.8 is improved EXT4 and XFS file-system direct access "DAX" support...
Performance-Helping FSGSBASE Patches Spun For Linux A 13th Time
The FSGSBASE Linux kernel patches that have the potential of helping performance going back to Intel Ivy Bridge era CPUs in select workloads have now hit their 13th revision to the series in the long-running effort to getting this support mainlined...
openSUSE Leap 15.2 Hits RC Phase With GNOME 3.34 + KDE Plasma 5.18, Sway
OpenSUSE Leap 15.2 has progressed to its release candidate phase ahead of the official release planned for the first week of July...
Mozilla Sponsored The Godot Game Engine To Port Their Editor As An HTML5 Web App
While we have been eager for Godot 4.0 as the open-source game engine update bringing big renderer improvements and initial Vulkan support, it also turns out there will be a new offering on the editor front.....
The Top Linux 5.7 Features From Apple Fast Charge To Official Tiger Lake Graphics
Assuming no last minute concerns, the Linux 5.7 kernel is set to debut as stable this weekend. Given all the weeks since the merge window and our many articles covering all the feature activity at that point (and not to be confused with our activity of new work being queued for the upcoming Linux 5.8 cycle), here is a look back at some of the top features of the Linux 5.7 kernel...
Linux's Hardware Monitoring "HWMON" Picking Up Notification Support
In addition to the AMD Zen "amd_energy" driver coming for Linux 5.8, another late change now queued into hwmon staging is introducing notification support for the hardware monitoring subsystem...
Mainline Linux Kernel Starts Seeing A NVIDIA Tegra X1 Video Input Driver
While the Tegra X1 SoC (Tegra210) has been available for several years, finally with the upcoming Linux 5.8 kernel is a mainline driver contributed by NVIDIA for the video input support...
Chrome 84 Beta Brings Better Web Animations API, Experimental WebAssembly SIMD
Following the recent Chrome 83 release, Chrome 84 has now been promoted to beta...
FSF Now Offering Video Conferencing Service To Its Members
In aiming to promote freedom-respecting video conferencing at a time when other platforms like Facebook and Zoom are exploding in popularity as a result of the coronavirus crisis, the Free Software Foundation is offering a video conferencing system for its associate members...