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FEX-Emu 2308 Continues Striving To Be "The Greatest x86/x86-64 Emulator On Linux"

Phoronix - Sun, 08/06/2023 - 21:35
The open-source FEX-Emu project continues advancing as an emulator to run x86/x86_64 Linux binaries on 64-bit ARM (AArch64), even for games, Valve's Steam Play / Proton, and other complex software. FEX-Emu 2308 is out today with more performance optimizations and other features implemented for this emulator...

LoongArch Implementing More Kernel Features For Linux 6.6

Phoronix - Sun, 08/06/2023 - 20:22
In addition to Loongson preparing Loongson Binary Translation (LBT) for LoongArch to help with MIPS / x86 / Arm binary translation on this domestic Chinese CPU architecture, additional LoongArch features are also now slated for introduction in the upcoming Linux 6.6 kernel cycle...

GTK 4.12 Released With Many Vulkan Backend Improvements

Phoronix - Sun, 08/06/2023 - 18:44
Tagged on Saturday was GTK 4.12 as the newest version of this open-source toolkit...

Intel's ConnMan 1.42 Released With Fixes, New Time Zone Options

Phoronix - Sun, 08/06/2023 - 03:10
Intel's open-source ConnMan software that is an Internet connect manager focused on embedded Linux devices is out with a new release...

Coreboot Lands Support For The HP EliteBook 820 G2

Phoronix - Sat, 08/05/2023 - 18:20
The newest motherboard port to land in mainline Coreboot Git is for enabling the HP EliteBook 820 G2 laptop...

More KDE Plasma Wayland Fixes Land, Continued Improvements For Plasma 6

Phoronix - Sat, 08/05/2023 - 17:48
Yesterday KDE developer Nate Graham outlined the progress with the Plasma 6 desktop while out today he's out with his usual blog post that highlights the various KDE changes to have been merged over the past week...

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