AMD Ryzen 3 3100 + Ryzen 3 3300X Offering Great Budget Linux CPU Performance
At the end of April AMD announced the Ryzen 3 3100 + Ryzen 3 3300X and these Zen 2 budget processors are now shipping. Here are our initial benchmarks of the AMD Ryzen 3 3100 and Ryzen 3 3300X processors running on Ubuntu Linux compared to an assortment of old and new Intel/AMD CPUs with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
GCC 10 Compiler Released With Radeon OpenMP/OpenACC Offload, Intel Tigerlake/Cooperlake
The GNU Compiler Collection 10 has seen its first stable release this morning in the form of GCC 10.1...
There Are Many Interesting Google Summer of Code 2020 Open-Source Projects
Google this week announced accepted projects for Summer of Code 2020 as their virtual engagement for getting students involved in open-source development. As usual, there are a lot of interesting GSoC projects...
Experimental Linux Live OS For Showcasing Wayland Updated With Latest Desktops
Years ago long before GNOME had great Wayland support and was used by default on the likes of Fedora Workstation and long before other Wayland compositors had mature support along with other areas of the stack, there was a Linux distribution offering up an experimental Linux "Live DVD/USB" OS for showcasing Wayland. That distribution is now out with a new release...
DragonFlyBSD 5.8.1 Released Due To HAMMER2 Bugs, Kernel Fixes
DragonFlyBSD 5.8 debuted in March while now shipping is v5.8.1 as the latest update for this BSD operating system...
Mesa 20.1-RC2 Released For Vetting This Set Of Open-Source OpenGL / Vulkan Drivers
On Wednesday marked the second weekly release candidate for the forthcoming Mesa 20.1...
Oracle Linux 8 Update 2 Released, Now Defaulting To UEK R6 Kernel For New Installs
Following the recent release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2, Oracle has now released Oracle Linux 8 Update 2 as their RHEL8-based distribution with various extra features on top and even an alternative kernel option...
New Linux Patches Confirm Next-Gen EPYC "Milan" CPUs To Support MPK
Recently we noted the latest revision to AMD's Programmer Reference Manual points to PCID and MPK/PKEY support coming on future CPUs. New Linux patches now confirm that the MPK support is on the way with next-gen EPYC processors...
Android 11 Aiming For Release In Q3
Android 11 Developer Previews have been available since February in bringing new 5G APIs, updated Neural Network APIs, privacy and security improvements, HDMI low-latency mode support, and many other additions. Google is now preparing the transition to Android 11 betas and ultimately to have this next mobile operating system release ready to roar by Q3...
Google's Dart Language Reaches 2.8 Milestone With New Features
It's been a while since hearing much out of the Google-backed Dart programming language for designing UI-focused cross-platform applications and its ability to compile to JavaScript or native code. But out today is Dart 2.8 as the latest step forward for this language...