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Reiser4 Updated For Linux 5.10 Compatibility, Reiser5 Effort One Year Old

Phoronix - Thu, 12/24/2020 - 13:00
The out-of-tree Reiser4 file-system has now been ported to the week-old Linux 5.10 kernel code-base. This also comes days ahead of the one year anniversary since the "Version 5" announcement...

LibreOffice 7.1-RC1 Released For Testing This Open-Source Office Suite

Phoronix - Thu, 12/24/2020 - 06:00
For those with extra time around the holidays, the first release candidate of LibreOffice 7.1 is now available for testing...

Linux 5.11 Finally Flushes Out Its Qt4 Code For Configuring Kernel Builds UI

Phoronix - Thu, 12/24/2020 - 04:32
Linux 5.11's Kconfig build configuration updates are bringing some long overdue improvements to its "Qconf" Qt toolkit user interface option for configuring Linux kernel builds...

Linux 5.11 Intel P-State Schedutil Tuned For Better Efficiency. Avoid Running "Too Fast"

Phoronix - Thu, 12/24/2020 - 02:13
Last week the Linux 5.11 power management updates were merged while on Tuesday some additional new material was merged, primarily around Intel's P-State CPU frequency scaling governor when running with the "Schedutil" governor that makes use of the kernel's scheduler utilization data...

Windows 10 Competing Well Against Ubuntu 20.10 On The AMD Ryzen 9 5950X

Phoronix - Wed, 12/23/2020 - 23:35
Earlier this month we were a bit surprised to see Windows 10 performing close to Ubuntu 20.10 on the AMD Ryzen 9 5900X. With prior AMD Ryzen (and Intel Core) desktop CPUs we normally are used to seeing Ubuntu Linux exhibit healthy performance advantages over Windows 10 in most workloads. But with Zen 3 the Windows vs. Linux performance is much closer and thus led us to also running Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu benchmarks on the higher-end Ryzen 9 5950X to reproduce the earlier findings.

Linux 5.11 Adding VirtIO-MEM "Big Block Mode"

Phoronix - Wed, 12/23/2020 - 22:14
The previously covered VirtIO memory (VirtIO-MEM) work on its Big Block Mode "BBM" will be landing with Linux 5.11...

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