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Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 23.10 Performance On The Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen 4

Phoronix - Wed, 09/27/2023 - 23:00
As some complementary data points to yesterday's Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen 4 AMD Linux laptop review, here is a look at how the out-of-the-box Microsoft Windows 11 Pro performance compares to that of the upcoming Ubuntu 23.10 on this AMD Ryzen 7 7840U "Phoenix" laptop.

CodeWeavers Releases CrossOver 23.5 With A Focus On Boosting macOS Gaming

Phoronix - Wed, 09/27/2023 - 22:20
CodeWeavers -- in addition to contributing significantly to upstream Wine and being involved with Valve on Proton for Steam Play -- continues to offer CrossOver as a premium Wine-based software solution for enjoying Windows games and applications like Microsoft Office and Adobe products on Linux, macOS, and Chrome OS. Out today is CrossOver 23.5 as the latest evolution of this Wine-based commercial software...

The Servo Browser Engine Has Been Making Great Progress In 2023

Phoronix - Wed, 09/27/2023 - 20:58
The Servo browser engine has been seeing renewed development activity and interest since it was transferred to the Linux Foundation Europe and has attracted contributions from the likes of the Igalia consulting firm. Last week at the Open Source Summit Europe, an update on Servo was presented...

openSUSE Leap Micro 5.5 Beta Published For This Container & VM Focused Distro

Phoronix - Wed, 09/27/2023 - 20:44
Ahead of the planned stable release in October, the openSUSE Leap Micro 5.5 Beta was published today for this lightweight Linux operating system built for containers and virtualized workloads...

Linux Mint Debian Edition 6 Released

Phoronix - Wed, 09/27/2023 - 20:00
Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) 6 has been released as the latest version of this Linux Mint derivative that is based on upstream Debian rather than Ubuntu...

More Intel Xe2 / Lunar Lake Graphics Support Readied For Open-Source Mesa Drivers

Phoronix - Wed, 09/27/2023 - 18:41
Earlier this month I noted that Intel's open-source Linux graphics driver engineers had begun working on the OpenGL and Vulkan Mesa driver support for Xe 2 graphics as to be found with Lunar Lake "LNL" processors. Since then the initial hardware enablement work has only continued heating up...

uvg266 Rolls Out More AVX2 Optimizations For Open-Source VVC/H.266 Encoding

Phoronix - Wed, 09/27/2023 - 18:29
Version 0.8 of uvg266 as one of the leading Versatile Video Codec (VVC) / H.266 open-source video encoders is now available...

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