Open-source News

Wine 8.18 Released WIth Continued Work On Wayland Window Management

Phoronix - Sat, 10/14/2023 - 07:57
Wine 8.18 is out as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source program for running Windows applications and games on Linux. Wine 8.18 is another step closer to Wine 9.0 stable that is due out in early 2024...

OpenZFS 2.2 Released With Block Cloning, Linux Container Support & Better Performance

Phoronix - Sat, 10/14/2023 - 01:36
OpenZFS 2.2 was promoted to stable today as the latest major update to this open-source ZFS file-system implementation for Linux and FreeBSD systems. With OpenZFS 2.2 comes many exciting new features, performance improvements, and other enhancements for this evolution of open-source ZFS...

Linux Looks Toward Dropping Very Old WiFi Drivers

Phoronix - Sat, 10/14/2023 - 01:00
While the Linux kernel tends to keep around drivers for even very old hardware, once there are no known users left that would still be updating to new Linux kernel versions or the drivers pose a significant maintenance burden, it's eventually time to let them go. We've seen the WiMAX wireless code removed and now the latest on the Linux wireless networking side inching close to the chopping block are old WiFi drivers...

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