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      Firefox 117 Beta 8 vs. Google Chrome 116 Linux Browser Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 August, 2023

    Given all the interest this week in Firefox outperforming Google Chrome in SunSpider, I decided to run some fresh Linux desktop web browser benchmarks on my end. For today's comparison is a look at the newly-released Chrome 116 up against Firefox 117b8 that will be released as stable in just over one week...
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      SysVinit 3.08 Released With A Couple Patches

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 August, 2023

    For those still managing to resist systemd, SysVinit 3.08 was released on Thursday as the newest update to this init system...
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      GNOME 45 Beta Released With Many Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 August, 2023

    The GNOME 45 Beta is out today as the latest development milestone ahead of its stable debut in September...
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      SUSE To Be Taken Private By Its Largest Shareholder

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 August, 2023

    The SUSE organization has changed hands many times over the years... From being its own independent company to the notable acquisition by Novell two decades ago. Over the past decade SUSE has changed hands between Attachmate, Micro Focus, EQT Partners, and then went public back in 2021 on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Now two years later its being taken private...
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      AMD Sends Out Initial Linux Graphics Driver Patches For "GFX 11.5"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 August, 2023

    A few minutes ago AMD sent out the very first open-source Linux kernel graphics driver patches for enabling the "GFX 11.5" graphics engine...
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      AMD Isn't Done Yet Optimizing The Mesa RadeonSI Driver For Workstation OpenGL

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 August, 2023

    While over the past several years AMD landed numerous significant improvements to their RadeonSI driver for benefiting OpenGL workstation use-cases, that quest isn't yet over and more optimizations continue to be pursued. There are additional optimizations on the horizon for the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver for benefiting OpenGL on Linux workstations...
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      Amazon's New EC2 M7a AMD EPYC "Genoa" Instances Deliver Leading Performance In The AWS Cloud

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 August, 2023

    While back in November was when AWS originally announced new EC2 instances powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC "Genoa" processors, only this week did they bring their M7a general purpose instances to a general availability state where anyone can access them. Being very impressed with 4th Gen EPYC bare metal as well as with Azure's HPC cloud, I fired up some benchmarks of the new Genoa-powered EC2 M7a instance compared to the new M7i instances powered by Intel Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" as well as showing how the competition is to Amazon's in-house Graviton ARM-based server processors.
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      Intel Publishes PCIe Bandwidth Controller Linux Driver To Prevent Thermal Issues

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 August, 2023

    Intel engineer Ilpo Järvinen posted a set of Linux kernel driver patches to introduce a new "bwctrl" PCI Express Bandwidth Controller driver and associated PCIe cooling driver to allow for limiting the PCIe link speed in the event of any system thermal issues...
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      Intel QAT Adapted For Zstd To Provide Big Performance/Efficiency Wins

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 August, 2023

    While Intel has maintained the QATzip open-source compression library for demonstrating data compression using QuickAssist Technology (QAT) with DEFLATE/LZ4/LZ4s, Intel has also been working on QAT'ed Zstd for achieving some sizable victories in performance and power efficiency...