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Linux 4.1 Offers Potentially Dazzling Performance

Besides presenting a lot of new kernel features and functionality, the upcoming Linux 4.1 kernel release is potentially very exciting if you’re an owner of certain classes of Intel hardware that offer better performance under this new kernel — and in some cases, better battery life. Here’s some tests from yet another system I found exhibiting some promising results from this new 2015 summer kernel version.

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