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Gentoo Made Progress In 2023 On Binary Packages, Modern C & Reviving DEC Alpha Support

Phoronix - Tue, 01/23/2024 - 19:15
The Gentoo Linux project published a 2023 retrospective on Monday that outlines their ongoing high level of development, gaining three new developers over the past calendar year, and various initiatives embarked on by the developers...

Firefox 122 Available With Official Debian Package, Many Web Improvements

Phoronix - Tue, 01/23/2024 - 13:00
Today marks the first Mozilla Firefox feature release of 2024 with quite a number of new features to showcase in the newly-published Firefox 122...

Valve Releases Proton 8.0-5 With Many Fixes, More Windows Games Now Playable

Phoronix - Tue, 01/23/2024 - 08:37
Valve has rolled out Proton 8.0-5 as the newest version of their Wine downstream for powering Steam Play to enjoy mass amounts of Windows games to run rather well on Linux...

Coreboot-Based Dasharo Firmware Updated For MSI Z690/Z790 Motherboards

Phoronix - Tue, 01/23/2024 - 05:50
For those wanting to use an open-source Coreboot-based firmware on your desktop with modern hardware, a rare and leading option is 3mdeb's Coreboot-based "Dasharo" firmware on select MSI Z690/Z790 motherboards...

Linux 6.8 Now Enables -Wstringop-overflow To Warn About Buffer Overflows

Phoronix - Tue, 01/23/2024 - 02:28
A change merged today for the Linux 6.8 kernel intentionally following yesterday's Linux 6.8-rc1 is a move to enable the "-Wstringop-overflow" compiler option by default...

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