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D7VK 1.5 Released With Direct3D 3 Now Implemented Over Vulkan

Phoronix - Wed, 03/11/2026 - 21:39
The open-source D7VK project began to implement Direct3D 7 over Vulkan similar to DXVK and VKD3D-Proton providing support for newer Direct3D APIs atop Vulkan. With succeeding releases D7VK was extended to Direct3D 6 too and then Direct3D 5 support. Now with today's D7VK 1.5 release, Direct3D 3 is implemented for faster acceleration using Vulkan...

Intel Posts New Linux Graphics Driver Patches For Improved Adaptive Sync Support

Phoronix - Wed, 03/11/2026 - 21:19
Posted today were new Intel kernel graphics driver patches for Linux to enable Adaptive Sync SDP (Secondary Data Packet) handling for Panel Replay and Auxless Adaptive Link Power Management (ALPM) modes...

Linux Patches Make The IPv6 Stack Less Modular To Lower Architectural Burden

Phoronix - Wed, 03/11/2026 - 18:23
Currently the Linux IPv6 networking stack can be built into the Linux kernel, built as a loadable kernel module, or not built at all. With proposed patches from a SUSE engineer, the IPv6 networking stack would be limited to being a kernel built-in or not at all. In doing away with IPv6 as a loadable kernel module would allow simplifying some code and lowering the Linux networking maintenance burden...

AlmaLinux To Focus On Increased Testing & Other Goals For 2026

Phoronix - Wed, 03/11/2026 - 18:10
Developers behind AlmaLinux as this popular community alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) have drafted some new goals for 2026...

Linux's KVM Virtualization Preparing For Intel Advanced Performance Extensions (APX)

Phoronix - Wed, 03/11/2026 - 17:57
Intel's Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) debuting with Nova Lake and Diamond Rapids is ready with Linux 6.16+ and recent open-source compilers. One piece of the support puzzle still coming together though that will be especially important for Xeon Diamond Rapids is the KVM virtualization support. New patches there were posted this week...

Azure Linux 3.0 Enables Core Scheduling, More Tracing Capabilities

Phoronix - Wed, 03/11/2026 - 17:41
Microsoft on Tuesday released Azure Linux 3.0.20260304 as the newest monhtly update to their in-house Linux platform...

SUSE may be sold again - Techzine Global

Google News - Wed, 03/11/2026 - 16:56
SUSE may be sold again  Techzine Global

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