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Wine-Staging 8.10 Adds D3D9 Improvement, Fix For A Bug Open Since 2009

Phoronix - Sun, 06/11/2023 - 18:06
Friday marked the release of Wine 8.10 as the newest bi-weekly development snapshot for this software allowing Windows games and apps to run on Linux and elsewhere. Out now is Wine-Staging 8.10 as the more experimental/testing form with an extra 500 patches atop the upstream Wine code-base...

Debian 13 "Trixie" Aiming To Ship With RISC-V 64-Bit Support

Phoronix - Sun, 06/11/2023 - 06:38
With today's release of Debian 12 the official ports are for AMD64, AArch64, ARMEL, ARMHF, i386, MIPS, 64-bit MIPS, POWER, and IBM System Z. There isn't RISC-V 64-bit as an official port but that is likely to change for Debian 13...

Debian 12.0 Released - Powered By Linux 6.1 LTS, Easier Non-Free Firmware Handling

Phoronix - Sat, 06/10/2023 - 20:00
Following more than one and a half years in development, Debian 12 is officially shipping today as the latest major release for this long-maintained Linux distribution...

NVIDIA SHIELD Controller Driver Coming With Linux 6.5

Phoronix - Sat, 06/10/2023 - 18:18
Five years after NVIDIA launched their SHIELD "Thunderstrike" gaming controller, they've recently been working on upstreaming support for this controller -- and other possible NVIDIA Shield peripherals -- via a new Linux kernel driver. This new driver is now set to be merged for Linux 6.5...

KDE Plasma 6 X11 Session "Barely Buggier" Than Plasma 5 On X11

Phoronix - Sat, 06/10/2023 - 18:07
Prominent KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his latest weekly development summary to highlight all of the work on Plasma 5 fixes and then the ongoing feature work in the march toward Plasma 6.0...

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