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Microsoft Rebranding CBL-Mariner Linux Distribution To "Azure Linux"

Phoronix - Wed, 03/06/2024 - 04:39
Microsoft's in-house Linux distribution used for a variety of purposes had been known as CBL-Mariner for "Common Base Linux" while now it appears to be in the process of transitioning to Azure Linux...

VKD3D 1.11 Allows Compiling Legacy Direct3D Bytecode To SPIR-V

Phoronix - Wed, 03/06/2024 - 04:28
While not as fast-moving as Valve's VKD3D-Proton downstream used by Proton / Steam Play, Wine's VKD3D is out today with a new feature release for this Direct3D 12 API implementation built atop the Vulkan API...

AMD Updates FreeSync Certification Requirements For New Monitors & TVs

Phoronix - Wed, 03/06/2024 - 03:18
AMD's FreeSync adaptive synchronization technology for displays has come a long way since its 2015 debut and enjoying robust industry adoption. Given the increasing refresh rates of today's TVs and monitors, AMD has rolled out new tier requirements for FreeSync, FreeSync Premium, and FreeSync Premium Pro moving forward...

Damn Small Linux - Hackaday

Google News - Wed, 03/06/2024 - 02:01
Damn Small Linux  Hackaday

Microsoft Ending Support For Windows Subsystem For Android

Phoronix - Wed, 03/06/2024 - 01:49
Microsoft announced today they will be winding down their support for Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA), which is similar to Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) but was designed to run Android apps from the Amazon Appstore atop Windows 11...

CentOS Stream ISA Optimized Packages Show Great Results On Intel Xeon Emerald Rapids

Phoronix - Wed, 03/06/2024 - 00:00
As part of Red Hat evaluating x86-64-v3 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, there is the CentOS ISA SIG that's been experimenting with ISA Optimized builds for the x86-64-v3 target. Via the CentOS ISA SIG there is the easy ability to transition an existing CentOS Stream 9 system/server over to using the x86_64-v3 optimized packages. In this article are some benchmarks on a modern Intel Xeon Scalable "Emerald Rapids" server showing the performance benefits when the entire Linux server OS is recompiled for x86_64-v3.

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