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Wine 8.11 Brings Various Improvements For Windows Apps On Linux

Phoronix - Sat, 06/24/2023 - 12:00
A new bi-weekly release of Wine is now available for enjoying Windows applications and games on Linux and other platforms...

Intel Releases x86-simd-sort 2.0 With Faster AVX-512 Sorting, New Algorithms

Phoronix - Sat, 06/24/2023 - 05:00
Earlier this year Intel software engineers published a blazing fast AVX-512 sorting library that was initially picked up by Numpy where it netted them 10~17x faster sorts. Today marks the release of x86-simd-sort 2.0 with even more AVX-512 features in place and additional sorting algorithms added...

Firewalld 2.0 Released With Faster Forwarding Performance Via NFTables Flowtable

Phoronix - Sat, 06/24/2023 - 02:26
The Firewalld open-source firewall daemon has been in development since 2011 while only two years ago did it reach the Firewalld 1.0 milestone. Thus it was a bit surprising to find Firewalld 2.0 being released today...

Et Tu, Red Hat? - Hackaday

Google News - Sat, 06/24/2023 - 01:00
Et Tu, Red Hat?  Hackaday

Two Fedora Spins Eye Going X.Org-less

Phoronix - Sat, 06/24/2023 - 00:30
The Fedora Sericea and Sway spins are eyeing the possibility of shipping without the xorg-x11 packages for being the first X.Org-less desktop spins in the Fedora Linux world...

Linux 6.5 To Bring Better NUMA Awareness For The NFSD/RDMA Server

Phoronix - Fri, 06/23/2023 - 22:30
Among the early pull requests already submitted for the Linux 6.5 merge window that is expected to open next week are the Linux NFS server (NFSD) changes. Notable this cycle is the NFSD and RDMA server code having better NUMA awareness...

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