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EXT4, XFS & exFAT Enjoy Some Nice Improvements With Linux 5.13

Phoronix - Sat, 05/01/2021 - 08:18
In addition to the Btrfs changes, EXT4, exFAT, and XFS are among the file-systems seeing noteworthy improvements with the in-development Linux 5.13...

It's 2021 & The FSF Is Still Endorsing 802.11n WiFi Hardware

Phoronix - Sat, 05/01/2021 - 01:39
As the first announcement of a newly-certified product by the Free Software Foundation since early 2020 as "Respect Your Freedom" compliant, the FSF is backing another 802.11n WiFi adapter...

NVIDIA RTX 30 Series vs. AMD Radeon Linux Gaming Performance For April 2021

Phoronix - Fri, 04/30/2021 - 23:34
With recently receiving the rest of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 "Ampere" line-up we had no access to previously for testing, the past few weeks were busy with testing/re-testing these new graphics cards as well as prior GeForce RTX 20 series hardware and relevant AMD Radeon graphics cards for offering a current look at the 1440p and 4K Linux gaming performance.

Intel's Cloud-Hypervisor Jumps From v0.14.1 To v15.0 To Signify Its Maturity, Stabilizing

Phoronix - Fri, 04/30/2021 - 20:19
The Rust-written Cloud-Hypervisor project led by open-source Intel engineers as a VMM designed for cloud workloads has broke well past the "1.0" milestone. Following a series of 0.x releases, Cloud-Hypervisor 15 was released this week...

KVM With Linux 5.13 Has AMD SEV Improvements, Intel SGX For Guests

Phoronix - Fri, 04/30/2021 - 18:22
Along with this week's release of QEMU 6.0, exciting on the Linux virtualization front are the KVM changes that are ready to go with the 5.13 kernel...

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