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Wine Reflink Support Continues To Be Worked On For Significant Space Savings

Phoronix - Tue, 08/24/2021 - 02:00
Last month I wrote about the proposed reflink support for Wine that would provide significant space savings for those having multiple Windows games/applications on Linux installed where Wine and derivatives like Crossover and Steam Play (Proton) generally maintain a separate "prefix" per software installation. Fortunately, that reflink support continues to be worked on for Wine where it can lead to savings up to several hundred megabytes per Wine prefix...

GTK 4.4 Released With Continued NGL Improvements, Inspector By Default

Phoronix - Tue, 08/24/2021 - 01:19
GTK 4.4 is out as the latest stable update to the GTK4 open-source toolkit...

Zink Mesa 21.3-dev Benchmarks - Increasingly Capable Of Running OpenGL Games Atop Vulkan

Phoronix - Mon, 08/23/2021 - 21:00
Zink as an OpenGL-over-Vulkan API implementation living within Mesa merged its sub-allocator code that could deliver 10x the performance for some games. Plus it also landed OpenGL compatibility context support for getting more games working now with this open-source GL-on-VLK solution. Given the progress made in Mesa Git over the past week, here are some fresh benchmarks now for how the performance stands across various games and benchmarks.

Intel Revs Linux Patches Yet Again For Per-Client GPU Statistics

Phoronix - Mon, 08/23/2021 - 20:48
Going on three years now there have been proposed patches for allowing per-client GPU engine statistics for being able to show on a per-game/application level how many resources across 3D/blitting/video engines are being consumed. The patches continue to be revised but sadly will be missing out on the imminent Linux 5.15 kernel merge window...

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