Intel's Linux kernel test robot has recently reported a 3888.9 per cent performance improvement in the mainline Linux kernel after Chipzilla geeks changed one line of code. The test robot highlighted ...

If you’re interested in Windows performance, you may want to take a look at our experiences with the 3990X here. It’s been a lot of fun watching AMD and Intel duke it out over CPUs the past few years, ...

A relatively tiny code change by penguin premier Linus Torvalds is making a measurable improvement to Linux's multithreaded performance.… The code commit has the catchy name of x86/uaccess: Avoid ...

In context: Linux offers developers and engineers a means to "tune" its operations, providing thousands of individual parameters that can adjust how the open-source kernel manages resources. Tuning ...

PC gaming is in the middle of a quiet platform revolt. Frustration with Windows 11’s direction is colliding with a once‑niche alternative that now runs most of the same games, and in some cases runs ...

In the world of consumer electronics, benchmarks are everything. More than specs, or anecdotal accounts, and certainly more than marketing materials, benchmarks give you meaningful information about ...

With the first rumblings of Meltdown and Spectre malware appearing, it's time to patch our systems against these CPU vulnerabilities. We know these patches will slow our systems down, but, for Linux ...

Wan to give Linux a try but don't have the spare hardware or aren't familiar enough with virtual machines to give it a go? DistroSea uses a distribution ISO and a script from the Quickemu project to ...

It’s been nearly a year since we last took an in-depth look at viewport performance with the help of SPEC’s SPECviewperf, and with the recent release of its 2020 v3.1 update, we felt now was a good ...

I've been doing some work lately evaluating various Linux desktop environments on low-end hardware. I've put a lot of time into this and I've gotten some interesting results, so I thought I'd share ...

That revelation comes from Michael Larabel, otherwise known as the benchmarking guru behind the cross-platform Phoronix Test Suite. Larabel has pages and pages of statistical proof that Intel’s Clear ...