A recent benchmark from PC Games Hardware suggests that, at least for some games, Proton has nearly eliminated the performance cost of running Windows code on ...

Linux has long provided an outstanding operating system for a wide range of users in a variety of settings. However, high-performance computing users, who must run applications on thousands of nodes, ...

High-performance computing (HPC) uses parallel data processing to deliver the speediest possible computing performance. Whether it's supercomputers, such as the Exabyte fast Frontier HPE Cray ...

Linux 6.17 features significant CPU improvements. It addresses the eternal Spectre and Meltdown security holes. The next release, 6.18, will be a long-term support kernel. Linus Torvalds is the first ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We're seeing excitement build up from the Vulkan API release 1.4.340, with a new extension that should eventually improve ...

Nvidia has always been a second class citizen with regards to Linux, with creator Linus Torvalds famously handing them the ...

Thinking about a Valve Steam system in 2026, with AMD Zen 4, RDNA 3, and DDR5 expected, so you can choose build or buy ...

High-performance computing (HPC) has moved from the domain of government and academic laboratories to being an essential component of the design process. Today, it is almost unthinkable to develop the ...