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 ...

Kali Linux 2022.1 is your one-stop-shop for penetration testing Your email has been sent For anyone who deals with security, penetration testing is often a necessary evil. Sometimes you cannot know ...

Brendan Higgins recently proposed adding unit tests to the Linux kernel, supplementing other development infrastructure such as perf, autotest and kselftest. The whole issue of testing is very dear to ...

We’ve been hugely focused on Windows benchmarks lately, so it’s about time we spice things up and get another collection of Linux tests together. The last time we tackled CPU performance in Linux was ...

The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), a consortium of technology companies and workplace of Linus Torvalds, has announced a major upgrade to its Scalable Test Plaform (STP) enterprise-grade testing ...

After posting our quick look at the performance of AMD’s new 16-core Ryzen 9 3950X in Windows last week, it quickly became obvious that the rest of our testing was going to be a painfully slow process ...

In my previous post, I described loading five different Linux distributions onto my new Acer Aspire 5. In this post, I will add four more. But first I would like to add a bit more information about ...

Apple made headlines for deciding to step away from their long-time chip supplier, Intel, as the company decided to manufacture their own CPUs. Apple made headlines with their M1 chip and are now ...

Man, isn't it weird that OSes are just dropping 32-bit CPUs? I mean, you can do a hell of a lot in 32 bits. Sadly, all those old CPUs tend to be horribly insecure, so ceasing to use them for anything ...