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Milk-V Duo Linux Kernel Patches Submitted For This $9 RISC-V Board

Phoronix - Sat, 09/30/2023 - 21:20
Patches have been posted to the Linux kernel mailing list in an effort to mainline support for the Milk-V Duo RISC-V development platform with the basic board retailing for $9...

Wine-Staging 8.17 Released With Fix For Eight Year Old Bug Report

Phoronix - Sat, 09/30/2023 - 20:25
Building off yesterday's Wine 8.17 release, Wine-Staging 8.17 is now available that consists of 494 extra patches atop the upstream Wine code-base...

wlroots Merges Wayland Tearing Control Support

Phoronix - Sat, 09/30/2023 - 18:31
The wlroots Wayland compositor library used by Sway and other Wayland compositors to help with the heavy lifting has merged support for the tearing control protocol...

KDE Plasma 6.0 Ends September With Many New Features & Enhancements

Phoronix - Sat, 09/30/2023 - 18:12
Plasma 6 development is ending September on a high note with a number of new features and enhancements to this desktop now merged...

VP8/VP9's libvpx 1.13.1 Released Due To A High Severity Vulnerability

Phoronix - Sat, 09/30/2023 - 18:02
Google on Friday released libvpx 1.13.1 as the newest update to this open-source reference encoder for the VP8 and VP9 video codecs. This release is coming due to CVE-2023-5217, which is a "high" severity vulnerability that's been exploited within at least the Google Chrome web browser...

Wine 8.17 Released With VKD3D 1.9 Upgrade, Initial Window Management For Wayland Driver

Phoronix - Sat, 09/30/2023 - 04:48
Wine 8.17 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release for this open-source software that allows Windows games and applications to run on Linux as well as serving as the basis for Valve's Proton that powers Steam Play...

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