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Intel Still Hasn't Gotten To Landing Per-Client Engine Busyness Reporting For Linux

Phoronix - Wed, 07/14/2021 - 12:00
One of the patch series I have been looking forward to see land going back to 2018 has been the per-process GPU load statistics or as it's known officially the "per client engine busyness" series. The work didn't land for Linux 5.14 but at least this week the latest revision was posted...

Steam Client Update Brings Numerous Linux Fixes, More Controller Additions

Phoronix - Wed, 07/14/2021 - 08:14
Valve today pushed out their newest stable update to the Steam client for Windows, macOS, and Linux...

VirtualBox Shared Folder With Linux 5.14 Will Open New Files Faster, Fixes "git clone"

Phoronix - Wed, 07/14/2021 - 04:00
For those making use of VirtualBox virtualization and rely on the shared folder functionality via the mainline "VBOXSF" driver for exchanging files between VMs and the host, the in-development Linux 5.14 kernel has an important fix/improvement...

More AMD IOMMU Optimization Work Is On The Way For Linux

Phoronix - Wed, 07/14/2021 - 02:42
Thanks to one of VMware's Linux engineers there are improvements pending to the AMD IOMMU support code to help with performance...

LibreOffice 7.2 RC1 Released Ahead Of Official Debut Next Month

Phoronix - Wed, 07/14/2021 - 01:46
LibreOffice 7.2 is expected for release before the end of August while today marks the availability of the first release candidate...

Intel Tiger Lake Performance Between Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu 21.04 Linux

Phoronix - Tue, 07/13/2021 - 21:30
With having hands on with a Dell XPS 13 9310 (Dell 0DXP1F) with the Core i7 1185G7 Tiger Lake processor (compared to prior Linux tests with the i7-1165G7), here is a fresh look at the performance of Microsoft Windows 10 Pro as shipped by Dell with all available stable updates versus a clean install of Ubuntu 21.04 Linux.

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