Android Leftovers

• Google leak may have just confirmed Android Oreo

• Moto 360 Sport: Android Wear 2.0 is now rolling out to Motorola's forgotten wearable

• Xiaomi working with Google on a new Android One smartphone: Report

• The Essential Phone made by the 'Father of Android' confirms what I've said all along – the best Android is stock

• Duo v16 adds new notification types and Notification Channels on Android O, tweaks UI for Audio/Video toggle [APK Download]

• Inbox for Android now has an 'all inboxes' view for keeping tabs on multiple accounts

• Bluetooth Hands-Free Profile Volume Synchronization coming to Android

Ryzen 3 Linux Gaming Benchmarks: NVIDIA vs. AMD Radeon

This week I posted some fresh OpenGL vs. Vulkan benchmarks on the AMD Ryzen 3 while for this weekend article are some more Linux gaming benchmarks from the budget-friendly Ryzen 3 1200 and Ryzen 3 1300X processors. On the Ryzen 3 1200 and Ryzen 3 1300X, NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 1050 and GTX 1060 graphics cards were tested while on the Radeon side was the RX 560 and RX 480 graphics cards. The NVIDIA driver release used was the 384.59 driver while on the Radeon side was Linux 4.13 AMDGPU DRM plus Mesa 17.3-dev Git built against LLVM 6.0 SVN using the Padoka PPA.

Some Fresh I/O Scheduler Benchmarks: Linux 4.13 With BFQ, CFQ, Kyber, Deadline

For those curious about the state of I/O schedulers with the in-development Linux 4.13 kernel, here are some fresh disk benchmarks using the 4.13 Git kernel on an Intel laptop/ultrabook and testing the various in-kernel options. Tests were done from a Broadwell era Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon with SSD. In the days ahead I'll have some tests as well from a slower, rotational media system.

Wine 2.15

• Wine Announcement

  The Wine development release 2.15 is now available.

• Wine 2.15 Adds Support for AES Encryption

  Coming a few days late, Wine 2.15 is now available as the latest bi-weekly development snapshot leading up to the Wine 3.0 release in a few months.