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One good thing about lock down is that I now have nearly all of my old DVDs on to hard drive, so now am catching up up on some old favourites. My all time favourite series was the Prisoner with Patrick McGoohan, if it were not for the colour quality this series would not look dated at all...

More from Phoronix: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd-ryzen-3000xt&num=1 Plus RAM tests with the new Ryzen: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ryzen-9-3900XT-DDR4-Memory

Some benchmarks for the Seagate Firecuda: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=seagate-firecuda-520&num=1

Not the sort of thing many of us will be using but interesting all the same: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ampere-altra-max&num=1

Just had this response from PCS: "The Issue with the Lafité model is that the SATA controller is limited to RST Premium which interferes with NVMe drivers in Linux. We're addressing this with a BIOS update which Clevo are already working on. Please understand that we have no timeframe as to when...

Linus Torvalds has decided AMD is the way to go: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Torvalds-Threadripper

Has anyone else had this. Upgraded to 20.04 and lost audio connection (HDMI and Displayport) to sound system. Monitor speakers still function but cannot get anything through to sound system. Only tips I have seen so far is returning to an older kernel but wondered if there were any other ideas...

Krita 4.3 is about to be released and there looks to be some good stuff coming with it: https://krita.org/en/krita-4-3-release-notes/#

AMD still producing some good stuff: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd-epyc-7f32&num=1

If anyone is using WSL1 you need to read this: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=WSL1-Breaking-Ubuntu-20.04

At last an area where Intel are still ahead of AMD, although this is not exactly the mainstream CPU market: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel-5220r-6226r&num=1

It is always said we are obsessed with the weather but detailed analysis can be useful, so why not give this a go: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/edh/rainfall-rescue

I am sure nearly all of the 'nix users on here will know this site but if not, it is somewhere to check out a few new distros while the world is at a standstill: https://distrowatch.com/

Thought this may be of interest to some of you: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=march-2020-gaming&num=1

Not sure if anyone has posted this before it is more than a month old but still quite interesting, hopefully PCS will consider this: https://www.anandtech.com/show/15378/ces-2020-clevo-xmg-prepare-notebooks-w-12core-amd-ryzen-9-3000-cpus

There has been a bit of a foul up with the 5.5 'nix kernel missing much-needed Intel graphics driver patches and this will cause system hangs forcing a reboot. Check here: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.5-Intel-Missed-Graphics

These are benchmarks for Linux but worth reading anyway as give a good idea what the new Ryzen is like: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd-ryzen9-3950x&num=1

It seems the latest Ubuntu will install easier than its predecessors on some machines. I have just put it on a Defiance from 2018 and a 2016 Optimus and both went flawlessly with no issues before. When the Optimus was new I had a few problems, including log in loops caused by the Nvidia drivers...

The new AMD Threadrippers are great CPUs new there has been a slight problem with 'nix but it is solvable with the workaround in this article: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-Boot-Threadripper-Zen2MCE

Found this useful in getting my Huion tablet going plus they have drivers for many others as well: https://digimend.github.io/tablets/