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Wine 8.1 Released - Now Exposed As "Windows 10" For New Prefixes

Phoronix - Fri, 02/03/2023 - 05:43
Following the release of Wine 8.0 stable from a week and a half ago, Wine 8.1 is out today as the first bi-weekly development snapshot for this open-source software that allows running Windows games and applications on Linux, macOS, and other platforms. These Wine 8.x development snapshots will then culminate with the release of Wine 9.0 next year...

Work Revived On Parallel CPU Bring-Up To Boot Linux Faster On Large Systems/Servers

Phoronix - Fri, 02/03/2023 - 05:15
Originally posted two years ago were Linux kernel patches for bringing up of CPU cores in parallel to speed-up the Linux boot process. With the growing core counts of servers and even high-end desktops / HEDT platforms, this parallel bring-up can lead to significant time savings at boot. The work, unfortunately, stalled but has now been revised...

Dennis Rex - Linux Journal

Google News - Fri, 02/03/2023 - 03:34
Dennis Rex  Linux Journal

systemd 253-rc2 Released With More Changes To This System & Service Manager

Phoronix - Fri, 02/03/2023 - 02:17
Following last month's release of systemd 253-rc1 with many new features and changes in tow, out today is a second release candidate and is piling yet more features into this Linux system and service manager...

Experimenting Underway To Support Mesa Vulkan Drivers Written In Rust

Phoronix - Fri, 02/03/2023 - 01:10
While there is Rusticl as the first Rust language code within Mesa as a modern OpenCL implementation in Gallium3D, for possible future driver efforts there is some initial exploratory work being done around coming up with bindings to support writing of Vulkan drivers with Rust...

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