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Running Linux On The ASUS ROG Ally Gaming Handheld   Computers   2023-06-15
Benchmarks: FreeBSD 13 vs. NetBSD 9.2 vs. OpenBSD 7 vs. DragonFlyBSD 6 vs. Linux   Operating Systems   2021-12-10
NVIDIA RTX 30 Series Resizable BAR Support Continues Helping Performance On Linux   Display Drivers   2021-09-14
Squeezing More Performance Out Of The Linux Kernel With Clang + LTO   Software   2021-07-21
Ubuntu 21.04 Enjoys Better Performance But Still No Match To Intel's Clear Linux   Operating Systems   2021-04-23
AMD Ryzen, EPYC 5~6% Faster Out-Of-The-Box With Linux 5.11   Software   2021-02-12
The Fastest Linux OS For AMD Ryzen Zen 3? It's Still Intel Clear Linux   Operating Systems   2020-12-22
DragonFlyBSD vs. FreeBSD vs. Ubuntu 20.04 On Intel's Core i9 10900K Comet Lake   Operating Systems   2020-06-19
Ubuntu 20.04 GNOME X.Org vs. Wayland Session Performance Impact For Gaming   Linux Gaming   2020-03-30
Benchmarking OpenMandriva's AMD Ryzen Optimized Linux Distribution On The Threadripper 3970X   Operating Systems   2020-02-21
Intel Still Has The Upperhand On BSD Support - Core i9 10980XE Benchmarks With DragonFlyBSD + FreeBSD   Operating Systems   2019-12-21
Fedora 31 Performance Is Still Sliding In The Wrong Direction - Benchmarks Against Ubuntu 19.10 + Clear Linux   Operating Systems   2019-10-31
AMD EPYC 7642 Benchmarks   Processors   2019-09-20
Running Intel's Clear Linux On AMD EPYC Rome? Still Significant Performance Uplift Over Ubuntu   Operating Systems   2019-09-05
Benchmarking Valve's RADV+ACO Yields Fastest Open-Source Radeon Vulkan Driver   Display Drivers   2019-07-08
Fedora 30 Performance Is Moving In The Right Direction But A Lot Of Untapped Potential   Operating Systems   2019-04-30
Spectre/Meltdown Performance Impact Across Eight Linux Distributions   Operating Systems   2019-03-11
DiRT Rally 2.0 Linux NVIDIA vs. AMD Radeon 18-Way Steam Play Benchmarks   Linux Gaming   2019-03-04
AMDGPU+RADV Linux Gaming On GCN 1.0/1.1, 25-Way Warhammer II GPU Benchmarks   Linux Gaming   2018-11-24
Ubuntu 18.10 Performance Is Looking Up, But Clear Linux Still Leads In Many Tests   Operating Systems   2018-09-24
Clear Linux Now Offers Radeon Mesa Graphics Support, Yields Speed Advantage In Some Tests   Operating Systems   2018-06-02
ADATA XPG SX6000: Benchmarking A ~$50 USD 128GB NVMe SSD On Linux   Storage   2018-01-15
Tweaking Ubuntu 17.10 To Try To Run Like Clear Linux   Operating Systems   2018-01-13
Zotac GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Mini Is A Powerful Yet Small Graphics Card   Graphics Cards   2017-11-09
Intel UHD Graphics 630 "Coffee Lake" On Linux   Graphics Cards   2017-10-05
SilverStone Case Storage Series CS350   Enclosures   2017-09-13
Open-Source Radeon Performance Is Very Good For DiRT Rally On Linux   Linux Gaming   2017-03-02
Fourteen NVIDIA GeForce GPUs Tested With DiRT Rally On Linux   Linux Gaming   2017-03-02
OpenSUSE Leap 42.1 vs. Leap 42.2 vs. Tumbleweed Benchmarks   Operating Systems   2016-11-23
Fedora 25 Turned Out Great, Definitely My Most Favorite Fedora Release   Operating Systems   2016-11-21
Clear Linux Continues To Maintain Slight Graphics Lead Over Ubuntu 16.10   Operating Systems   2016-10-11
Nouveau With Boost Patches Are Now Competitive To Radeon/AMDGPU With RadeonSI   Display Drivers   2016-04-20
Vulkan 1.0 Released: What You Need To Know About This Cross-Platform, High-Performance Graphics API   Software   2016-02-16
Seek Thermal Turns Your Android Phone/Tablet Into A Thermal Imaging Camera   Peripherals   2016-01-29
Intel Haswell Linux OpenGL Driver Catching Up To The Windows Driver   Display Drivers   2014-12-30
AMD RadeonSI Gallium3D Performance For 4K Linux Gaming   Linux Gaming   2014-09-12
My Core i7 5960X + MSI X99 Experience So Far: It's Smoking, Really   Motherboards   2014-09-06
Linux 3.16: Deadline I/O Scheduler Generally Leads With A SSD   Software   2014-06-25
Func KB-460 Gaming Keyboard   Peripherals   2013-12-06
LLVM/Clang 3.3 Performing Against GCC For Old Intel CPU   Software   2013-04-23
Ubuntu 13.04 Linux Can Outperform Apple OS X 10.8.3   Operating Systems   2013-04-09
KDE & Xfce Don't Lead To Performance Wins Over Windows 8   Operating Systems   2013-03-22
Windows 8 Outperforming Ubuntu Linux With Intel OpenGL Graphics   Operating Systems   2013-03-21
SilverStone Sugo SG09   Enclosures   2013-02-25
Intel Ivy Bridge Performance Drops In Mesa 8.1   Display Drivers   2012-07-30
The Five Stages of Benchmark Loss   Software   2010-02-21
Tyan S2915 n6650W & S2927 n3600B   Motherboards   2010-02-01
The Phoronix Kernel Test Farm Is Alive   Software   2009-12-01
Mionix Saiph 3200 Laser Gaming Mouse   Peripherals   2009-10-02
The Cost of SELinux, Audit, & Kernel Debugging   Software   2009-08-13
Razer Salmosa Gaming Mouse   Peripherals   2009-07-01
Flashing Your BIOS From The Linux Desktop   Motherboards   2009-05-04
Dell Inspiron Mini 9 Netbook   Computers   2009-04-14
OpenGL Benchmarking On Linux Reaches New Heights   Software   2008-08-03
Acer P243WAid 24" LCD   Monitors   2008-07-21
Persistent Configuration Options For X.Org Drivers   Display Drivers   2008-07-15
SilverStone Decathlon 800W   Power Supplies   2008-07-09
Corsair Flash Voyager GT 16GB   Storage   2008-04-28
OCZ Rally 2 Turbo 4GB   Storage   2008-03-31
ATI's New Drivers: Did The Paradise Come?   Display Drivers   2007-11-13
Installing The RadeonHD Driver On Ubuntu   Display Drivers   2007-09-17
NVIDIA: Got Specifications?   Display Drivers   2007-09-10
AMD 8.41 Display Driver Preview   Display Drivers   2007-09-05
NVIDIA GeForce 8: Linux vs. Windows   Graphics Cards   2007-07-18
OCZ Mega-Kart 8GB Flash Drive   Storage   2006-11-05
OCZ Ultra-Slim Mini-Kart 1GB   Storage   2006-05-10
Sharkoon Rainbow TC   Peripherals   2005-12-20
ATP ToughDrive 1GB   Storage   2005-12-14
Corsair Flash Voyager 4GB   Storage   2005-12-02
America's Army v2.5 Direct Action   Linux Gaming   2005-10-31
OCZ Rally 2GB Flash Drive   Storage   2005-09-27
ASRock 775Dual-880Pro   Motherboards   2005-08-15
SLAX Linux Live 5.0.6   Operating Systems   2005-07-19
Scythe Shogun CPU Heatsink   Peripherals   2005-06-26
NVIDIA Linux Display Driver Performance Analyzed   Display Drivers   2005-05-23

Rally Linux & Open-Source News

RadeonSI Squeezes "Many Improvements Around The Whole Driver" Into Mesa 24.1   Radeon   2024-04-24
Intel Vulkan Driver Wires Up Image Compression Control For VKD3D-Proton   Intel   2024-04-16
Redict 7.3 Released As Fork Of Open-Source Redis   Programming   2024-04-03
Firefox 124 Now Available With Screen Wake Lock API   Mozilla   2024-03-18
LXD 5.21 LTS Released With UI By Default, AMD SEV Memory Encryption For VMs   Virtualization   2024-03-15
Linus Torvalds Isn't Happy With Some Of The Bcachefs Code For Linux 6.9   Linux Storage   2024-03-13
GhostRace Detailed - Speculative Race Conditions Affecting All Major CPUs / ISAs   Linux Security   2024-03-12
AMD Introducing FRU Memory Poison Manager In Linux 6.9   AMD   2024-03-06
Qualcomm Hardware Support Increasingly In Good Shape On The Mainline Linux Kernel   Hardware   2024-02-10
Linux 6.8-rc1 Released Following Torvalds' Bout With Nasty Weather   Linux Kernel   2024-01-21
~5 Minutes Of Coding Yields A 6%+ Boost To Linux I/O Performance   Linux Storage   2024-01-16
Linux 6.8 To Allow Blocking Writes To Mounted Block Devices   Linux Storage   2024-01-05
Linux 6.7-rc8 Released: A Light Holiday Release With A Couple Fixes   Linux Kernel   2023-12-31
KDE's Nate Graham On X11 Being A Bad Platform & The Wayland Future   KDE   2023-12-27
PostgreSQL Lands Support For Incremental Backups   Free Software   2023-12-21
64-bit ARM Linux Kernel Against CPU-Specific Optimizations: "Pretty Unmaintainable"   Linux Kernel   2023-11-22
Fwupd 1.9.7 Adds Support For More Logitech, Synaptics & Western Digital Hardware   LVFS   2023-11-01
Bcachefs Pull Request Submitted For Linux 6.7   Linux Storage   2023-10-30
Google Proposes New mseal() Memory Sealing Syscall For Linux   Linux Kernel   2023-10-17
HTTP/2 "Rapid Reset" DDoS Attack Disclosed By Google, Cloudflare & AWS   Linux Networking   2023-10-10
GNOME 45 Released With New Apps, New Activities Indicator   GNOME   2023-09-20
Linux 6.7 Set To Drop Support For Itanium IA-64   Intel   2023-09-18
Linux's SLUB Allocator Preparing To Better Fend Off Cross-Cache Attacks   Linux Kernel   2023-09-17
Radeon Software For Linux 23.20 Brings RX 7700 XT / RX 7800 XT Support   Radeon   2023-09-07
Linux 6.6 Will Avoid Unnecessary Kernel Panics On AMD Zen Systems   AMD   2023-08-28
Multi-Grained Timestamps Submitted For Linux 6.6   Linux Storage   2023-08-28
Fwupd 1.9.4 Released With Linux Firmware Updating For More Devices   LVFS   2023-08-22
Emacs 29.1 Released - No Longer Chokes On Very Long Lines   GNU   2023-07-30
Canonical Rolls Out Real-Time Ubuntu Optimized For Intel Core CPUs   Ubuntu   2023-07-26
AMD Begins Sending "Family 26" Linux Patches For Apparent Zen 5 CPUs   AMD   2023-07-06
libjpeg-turbo 3.0 Released But May Be The End Of Feature Work Due To Funding Constraints   Free Software   2023-07-03
Wine 8.11 Brings Various Improvements For Windows Apps On Linux   WINE   2023-06-24
Go 1.21 Enabling PGO For Faster Performance, Tuned Garbage Collector   Programming   2023-06-21
Intel Continues Working On IAA Crypto Compression Driver For Linux   Intel   2023-06-21
Wine-Staging 8.9 Ships With The Very Latest VKD3D Code   WINE   2023-05-28
Podman Desktop 1.0 Released As An Alternative To Docker Desktop   Virtualization   2023-05-23
New Patches Extend AMD EDAC Linux Driver For Data Center GPUs   AMD   2023-05-15
Asahi Linux To Users: Please Stop Using X.Org   Wayland   2023-05-13
Intel Meteor Lake GuC Firmware Support Published   Intel   2023-05-07
Ubuntu 23.10 Looks Like It Will Switch To Using Dbus-Broker   Ubuntu   2023-05-02
Intel Submits Long-Awaited Shadow Stack Support For Linux 6.4   Intel   2023-04-25
FSF Slams Google Over Dropping JPEG-XL In Chrome   Free Software   2023-04-16
AMD-Xilinx Publishes Open-Source "Nanotube" Compiler   AMD   2023-03-28
Intel Mesa Vulkan Driver Fixed Up For Very Slow Gen9 GravityMark Performance   Intel   2023-03-04
SSDFS Is The Newest Linux Filesystem & Catering To NVMe ZNS SSDs   Linux Storage   2023-02-25
ARK Logic X.Org Driver Sees 2023 Update For 90's PCI Video Card   X.Org   2023-02-22
Linus Torvalds' Advice On Git Merges: "If you cannot explain a merge, then JUST DON'T DO IT"   Linux Kernel   2023-02-21
Canonical Promotes Ubuntu's Real-Time "RT" Kernel To General Availability   Ubuntu   2023-02-14
Linux 6.3 EDAC Prepares For Intel Granite Rapids With Up To 12 DDR5 Memory Channels   Intel   2023-01-26
AMD Rolling Out New Website Area For Zen Software Studio   AMD   2023-01-09
Compiling The Linux Kernel With LLVM's Clang Matured In 2022   LLVM   2023-01-05
Linux 6.2 Will Help With Power Savings For Intel Alder Lake N & Raptor Lake P   Intel   2022-12-15
LLVM's Flang Compiler Adds -Ofast & -ffast-math Support   LLVM   2022-12-14
IOMMUFD Submitted For Linux 6.2 To Overhaul IOMMU Handling   Virtualization   2022-12-12
Rust-Written Redox OS 0.8 Released With i686 Support, Audio & Multi-Display Working   Operating Systems   2022-11-23
Microsoft Promotes Windows Subsystem For Linux "WSL" To GA Status   Microsoft   2022-11-22
Box64 0.2 Gets DXVK 2.0 Running, Many Other Improvements For Emulating x86_64 On Arm   Linux Gaming   2022-11-17
Godot 4.0 Engine Adds Movie Maker Mode   Linux Gaming   2022-11-14
Deferred Enabling Of ACPI CPUFreq Boost Support Can Help Boot Times For Large Servers   Linux Kernel   2022-11-03
Intel P-State Driver Seeing More Fixes For Hybrid CPUs With Linux 6.2   Intel   2022-10-27
Initial AMD Zen 4 "znver4" Support Merged Into GCC 13   AMD   2022-10-21
Arcan Project Announces The Modern & Radically Different Cat9 Shell   Desktop   2022-10-17
AMD Sends Out Basic Zen 4 "Znver4" Enablement For The GCC Compiler   AMD   2022-10-16
WineConf 2022 Talked Up Vulkan, PE Conversion Progress, Wine 8.0 Early Next Year   WINE   2022-10-08
AMD P-State Fixes, Fixing s2idle For Some Rembrandt Laptops Lead ACPI/PM For Linux 6.1   AMD   2022-10-03
With AMD Zen 4, It's Surprisingly Not Worthwhile Disabling CPU Security Mitigations   AMD   2022-09-30
DDNet Cooperative Platformer Game Adds Vulkan Renderer   Linux Gaming   2022-09-18
EVGA - Long-Time NVIDIA Partner - Ending Graphics Card Production   NVIDIA   2022-09-16
Renewed Talk Of User-Space Consoles, Accelerators In The DRM Subsystem   Linux Kernel   2022-09-16
systemd's mkosi-initrd Talked Up As Better Alternative To Current Initrd Handling   systemd   2022-09-14
AMD Posts "P-State EPP" Driver As New Attempt To Improve Performance-Per-Watt On Linux   AMD   2022-09-09
Short-Lived ASUS Sensors Linux Driver Being Removed In Favor Of Better Alternative   Hardware   2022-08-30
NTFS3 File-System Driver Sees Late Refactoring For Linux 6.0   Linux Storage   2022-08-17
Intel Releases New "20220809" CPU Microcode For Latest Security Vulnerability   Intel   2022-08-09
Linux 5.19 Released - Linus Torvalds Released It From An Apple Silicon MacBook   Linux Kernel   2022-07-31
Godot 4.0 Adds Variable Rate Shading, Shader Preprocessor Support   Linux Gaming   2022-07-29
openSUSE Announces "First Class" Support For The Nim Programming Language   SUSE   2022-07-15
DXVK 1.10.2 Released With Many Game Fixes, Performance Optimizations   Vulkan   2022-07-13
AMD Hiring For Another Open-Source GPU Driver Developer With Multimedia Expertise   AMD   2022-07-06
Linux 5.20 Looks To Be Primed For Usable DG2/Alchemist Desktop Graphics & ATS-M Support   Intel   2022-07-02
AMD GPUOpen Working On A New "gpurt" Open-Source Project   Radeon   2022-06-28
Experimental -O3 Optimizing The Linux Kernel For Better Performance Brought Up Again   Linux Kernel   2022-06-23
Mold 1.3 High Speed Linker Released With LTO Improvements   Programming   2022-06-18
GitLab Now The Main Development Platform For Wine   WINE   2022-06-14
Ubuntu Deciding How To Tame Their systemd-oomd Killing Experience   Ubuntu   2022-06-09
Linux Continues Playing Catch Up To Windows For Desktop Hardware Monitoring Support   Hardware   2022-05-24
Intel Trust Domain Extensions Ready For Linux 5.19 (Intel TDX)   Intel   2022-05-23
AMD SEV-SNP Finally Being Merged In Linux 5.19 To Enhance Confidential Computing   AMD   2022-05-23
Radeon Software for Linux 22.10.2 Brings RX 6650/6750/6950 XT Support, RHEL 9 Compatible   Radeon   2022-05-17
More AMD RDNA3 / GFX11 Enablement Patches Merged Into LLVM 15.0   Radeon   2022-05-11
Open-Source Firmware For The MSI Alder Lake Motherboard Taking Shape   Hardware   2022-05-11
Linux 5.18-rc6 Released - Linux 5.18 Is Looking "Quite Well-Behaved"   Linux Kernel   2022-05-08
Linux Workaround Coming For Better s2idle Resume On More AMD Lenovo Laptops   AMD   2022-05-08
Intel Tool Aims To Help Developers Move From OpenACC To OpenMP   Intel   2022-05-02
Linux 5.18-rc4 Released After Another Calm Week   Linux Kernel   2022-04-24
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Changes Default For NVIDIA Driver Back To Using X.Org Rather Than Wayland   NVIDIA   2022-04-23
Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Making Progress On Windows, X-Plane Looking To Use It   Mesa   2022-04-20
Debian To Consider Changing How It Treats Closed-Source Firmware   Debian   2022-04-19
Box86 0.2.6 / Box64 0.1.8 Released With Working Steam & Steam Play On Non-x86 CPUs   Free Software   2022-04-16
GNU C Library Dropping Various SSSE3 Optimized Code Paths   GNU   2022-04-16
Intel Prepares More Arc "Alchemist" Graphics Code For Linux 5.19 + ATS-M & Raptor Lake S   Intel   2022-04-13
NVIDIA Publishes Signed Ampere Firmware To Finally Allow Accelerated Open-Source Support   NVIDIA   2022-04-11
LLVM Begins Process For Allowing C++17 In Codebase   LLVM   2022-04-04
Wacom Talks Up Their Linux Support   Hardware   2022-04-02
Radeon Software For Linux 22.10 Driver Being Prepared For Release   Radeon   2022-03-31
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS To Carry GNOME Triple Buffering Support   Ubuntu   2022-03-07
Intel "Madison Peak" Bluetooth Support Coming For Linux 5.18   Intel   2022-03-05
The Worst Razer Mouse I've Tested In The Past 17 Years   Hardware   2022-03-05
Mesa's Virgl Preparing To Transition To Using NIR Over TGSI   Virtualization   2022-02-20
AMD Quietly Working On New Linux GPU Driver Support Block By Block   Radeon   2022-02-18
Canonical Will Begin Certifying Gigabyte Servers For Ubuntu Linux   Ubuntu   2022-02-15
Intel's ENQCMD For Linux Ready To Be Re-Enabled - No Longer "Broken Beyond Repair"   Intel   2022-02-15
X.Org vs. (X)Wayland Gaming Performance For NVIDIA GeForce & AMD Radeon On Ubuntu 22.04   Linux Gaming   2022-02-14
Benchmarks - Is PowerTOP Tuning Worthwhile For Modern AMD Linux Laptops?   AMD   2022-02-14
Radeon ROCm 5.0 Released With Some RDNA2 GPU Support   Radeon   2022-02-10
FEX-Emu Is Working On Speedy x86/x86_64 Games Support On AArch64, Including Proton   Linux Gaming   2022-02-06
LLVM Clang 15 Enables Faster Square Root Instructions For AMD Zen   AMD   2022-02-04
LibreOffice Finally Adding Support For The WebP Image Format   LibreOffice   2022-02-04
LVFS Exploring Alternate, Open-Source Firmware For Capable End-Of-Life Devices   LVFS   2022-01-24
Linux 5.17 Making It Easier To Build A Kernel With All The Shiny Debug Features   Linux Kernel   2022-01-20
Wine 7.0-rc6 Released With Another 47 Fixes   WINE   2022-01-14
Oracle Working On Multi-Threaded VFIO Page Pinning For ~10x Faster QEMU Initialization   Virtualization   2022-01-06
Linux 5.17 To Replace SHA1 With BLAKE2s For Faster & More Secure "Random"   Linux Storage   2021-12-30
Recapping Intel's Open-Source/Linux Achievements For 2021   Intel   2021-12-30
LLVM's HIPSPV Coming Together For AMD HIP To SPIR-V For OpenCL Execution   LLVM   2021-12-20
Binary Blobs Continue To Prove Challenging For POWER10 Plus Very Expensive Motherboards   Hardware   2021-12-15
GNOME 42 To Finally Allow Input Events To Happen Full-Rate   GNOME   2021-12-09
LLVM Clang 14 Lands An "Amazing" Performance Optimization   LLVM   2021-12-06
Intel's Cloud-Hypervisor 20 Released With CPU Pinning, Replacing Unsafe Rust Code   Virtualization   2021-12-03
New Linux Scheduler Patches Can Improve AMD Zen Performance For Some Workloads   Linux Kernel   2021-12-01
Getting Experimental Vulkan Within QEMU VMs Using Linux 5.16+ Paired With Mesa's Venus   Virtualization   2021-11-26
GCC 12 Moves On To Fixing Bugs - Now In "Stage 3" Development   GNU   2021-11-16
Valve Shares New Steam Deck Details, Proton Update Available For Testing   Valve   2021-11-12
Linux To Start Seeing Enablement Patches For Intel "Raptor Lake"   Intel   2021-11-12
Facebook's BOLT Nearing Mainline LLVM For Optimizing Binaries   LLVM   2021-11-04
Intel's i965 Mesa Classic OpenGL Driver Will Stick Around A Bit Longer   Mesa   2021-10-29
Linux 5.15, AMD / Radeon Advancements, Intel SDSi Dominated Discussions This Month   Phoronix   2021-10-01
Fedora's Java Packages Have Fallen Into Rough Shape   Fedora   2021-09-28
Better Support & Performance For OpenACC Kernels Is Coming To GCC   GNU   2021-09-22
Mesa 21.2.2 Released "Late & Very Large"   Mesa   2021-09-22
AMD + Valve Focusing On P-State / CPPC Driver With Schedutil For Better Linux Efficiency   AMD   2021-09-18
Intel Seamless Update: Intel Preparing For System Firmware Updates Without The Reboot   Intel   2021-09-14
Still-Pending AMD PSF Control Patch To Be Retailored For KVM   AMD   2021-09-13
SLUB Adapted To Be Real-Time Linux Compatible (PREEMPT_RT)   Linux Kernel   2021-09-09
Ubuntu 21.10 Delivering Some Performance Gains On The Intel Core i9 11900K   Ubuntu   2021-09-08
Dav1d 0.9.2 Released With More SSSE3, SSE4, AVX2, NEON Optimizations   Multimedia   2021-09-05
Windows Server 2022 Reaches General Availability With Focusing On Hybrid Clouds, Containers   Microsoft   2021-09-01
GNU Linux-libre Was Mistakenly Including Non-Free Code, So Releases Now Re-Spun + 5.14   GNU   2021-08-31
A Prominent, Longtime Dell Linux Engineer Recently Joined AMD's Linux Team   AMD   2021-08-28
AMD's Open-Source Mesa Driver Continues To Be Ruthlessly Optimized For Workstation Performance   Radeon   2021-08-24