… The full review on the HP Z6 G5 A workstation will be published on Phoronix in the next week or so but given the timing and that it shipped with WIndows 11 Pro, here is a look at how Windows 11 Pro is competing against the newly-released Ubuntu 26.04 LTS in creator/workstation workloads. …
… Last week Intel sent over four Arc Pro B70 graphics cards for Linux testing at Phoronix. Given the current re-testing for the imminent Ubuntu 26.04 release, I am still going through all of the benchmarks especially for the multi-GPU scenarios. …
… Ubuntu 26.04 Beta is available for editions such as Ubuntu Desktop, Server, WSL, and Cloud products, but also the Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Studio, Ubuntu Unity, and Xubuntu flavors. Downloads and more details on Ubuntu 26.04 Beta via the mailing list announcement . …
… The AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics card with Mesa 26.0 was used for testing while similar cross-desktop testing on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is also being done with NVIDIA graphics and NVIDIA's official Linux driver stack for a separate article on Phoronix. …
… After recently showing some nice performance gains for AMD Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo" with Ubuntu 26.04 , several Phoronix readers inquired about any performance uplift from the more modest but still powerful Strix Point laptops like the popular Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 SKU. …
… Last week Intel sent over four Arc Pro B70 graphics cards for Linux testing at Phoronix. Given the current re-testing for the imminent Ubuntu 26.04 release, I am still going through all of the benchmarks especially for the multi-GPU scenarios. …
… With the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release due out in three weeks, I have been re-testing a number of different devices on this newest Ubuntu release. …
… ReactOS developers shared with Phoronix that they now have a unified BootCD to replace their previously separate boot/install media and their live CD. …
… DDR5-6000 performance with Ubuntu Linux and this new 3D V-Cache 8-core / 16-thread desktop processor. …
… Thanks to Intel for providing the review hardware for Linux testing at Phoronix. …