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Wine 8.19 Released With Updated Mono, More DirectMusic Code

Phoronix - Mon, 10/30/2023 - 01:23
It's slightly off its usual Friday release target, but Wine 8.19 was released today as the newest bi-weekly unstable release of this open-source software to enjoy Windows games and applications under Linux...

Linux 6.7 Will Let You Enable/Disable 32-bit Programs Support At Boot-Time

Phoronix - Mon, 10/30/2023 - 00:35
From the perspective of Linux distributions trying to reduce their attack surface while still making it possible for users to run legacy software without recompiling their kernel, SUSE has spearheaded the effort for boot-time enabling/disabling of x86 32-bit support for whether 32-bit user-space programs and 32-bit system calls can be executed. That code has been submitted for the imminent Linux 6.7 merge window...

Google Chrome To Remove Theora Video Codec Support

Phoronix - Sun, 10/29/2023 - 21:21
The Xiph.Org-developed Theora lossy video compression format was once popular for open-source video compression but in an era of VP9 and AV1 its usage has waned. Google engineers are now working to remove Theora support from their Chrome/Chromium web browser...

NVIDIA Looking To Add OpenACC 3.3 Support To Upstream LLVM Clang

Phoronix - Sun, 10/29/2023 - 20:47
A NVIDIA compiler engineer last week laid out the company's plans for implementing OpenACC 3.3 offloading support within the LLVM Clang compiler...

Linux 6.7 Reworks PE Header Generation To Reduce Attack Area

Phoronix - Sun, 10/29/2023 - 20:35
One of the many early pull requests sent in for Linux 6.7 were the x86/boot changes that are headlined by a rework to the PE header generation in order to generate a modern, 4K-aligned kernel image view to ultimately aim for better system security...

AMD Versal EDAC Driver Submitted For Linux 6.7

Phoronix - Sun, 10/29/2023 - 18:54
While the Linux 6.6 kernel isn't set to be released until later today, over the weekend a number of early pull requests were submitted of new material for the Linux 6.7 merge window. Among those early PRs were for the Error Detection and Correction (EDAC) area of the kernel...

Some Of The Features You Can Expect With Linux 6.7

Phoronix - Sun, 10/29/2023 - 03:45
With Linux 6.6 expected to be released tomorrow as stable, the Linux 6.7 merge window in turn will be opened. Here's a preview of some of the changes expected for this next kernel cycle...

Intel's Mesa Drivers Enable "TBMIR" Tile-Based Rendering

Phoronix - Sun, 10/29/2023 - 00:29
A shiny feature landed on Friday for the Intel open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers within Mesa 24.0: Tile-Based Immediate Mode Rendering (TBIMR)...

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