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KDE Ends Out April Continuing Its "Bug Slaughterfest"

Phoronix - Sat, 04/29/2023 - 18:14
KDE developers this month have been tackling many open bugs as well as seeing the early Plasma 6 development state rough yet usable. In ending out April, they continued their "bug slaughterfest" in whittling away at their open bug count...

Wine 8.7 Released With Another 17 Bugs Fixed

Phoronix - Sat, 04/29/2023 - 08:10
Wine 8.7 is out as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software to enjoy running Windows games and applications across Linux / BSDs / macOS / Chrome OS platforms...

Linux 6.4 Goes Ahead And Starts Removing Old PCMCIA Drivers

Phoronix - Fri, 04/28/2023 - 23:00
As noted back in March, the plan with Linux 6.4 is to start removing old, unused and unmaintained PCMCIA drivers. As part of that process to begin dropping old PCMCIA/CardBus driver code from the kernel, all of the PCMCIA "char" drivers were on the chopping block. Linus Torvalds pulled in the char/misc changes this week for Linux 6.4 and indeed those drivers are now removed. Meanwhile this pull introduced the new AMD CDX subsystem...

Linux 6.4 NFS Server Adds RPC-With-TLS Support

Phoronix - Fri, 04/28/2023 - 22:18
After the patches had been in development for well more than a year, sent out today for the Linux 6.4 merge window are the NFS server (NFSD) changes that include supporting RPC-with-TLS...

Zlib "Next Generation" Preparing Massive Decompression Speed-Up

Phoronix - Fri, 04/28/2023 - 18:45
After being in development for two years, a new beta release of Zlib-ng as the "next generation" data compression library is available with much faster data decompression...

Matrox Announces LUMA Graphics Cards Powered By Intel Arc Graphics

Phoronix - Fri, 04/28/2023 - 18:26
Matrox announced on Thursday their new graphics card series LUMA... The Matrox LUMA isn't powered by their own GPU design but rather they are now tapping Intel for their Arc Graphics discrete GPUs...

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