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Wine's Wayland Driver Is Becoming Mature, May Aim For Upstreaming Early Next Year

Phoronix - Tue, 12/13/2022 - 02:02
While now in the code freeze for Wine 8.0 as the next annual stable release of Wine for enjoying Windows games and applications on Linux, one of the features that didn't make it is the long in-development Wayland driver. Thankfully though the Wayland driver continues to mature and it looks like early next year following Wine 8.0 it might finally be upstreamed...

Firefox 108 Now Available With WebMIDI, Import Maps Enabled By Default

Phoronix - Tue, 12/13/2022 - 00:45
Firefox 108 is now available for download as the last major Firefox web browser release of 2022...

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX + RX 7900 XT Linux Support & Performance

Phoronix - Mon, 12/12/2022 - 22:00
Today's the day that the embargo expires on being able to provide reviews on the AMD Radeon RX 7900 series graphics cards... After testing both the Radeon RX 7900 XT and RX 7900 XTX graphics cards the past two weeks, today I have the initial performance numbers to share on these graphics cards and the current state of the open-source Linux graphics driver for these first RDNA3 graphics cards. Here is the first look at AMD's new flagship desktop Radeon graphics cards running under Linux with fully upstream and open-source graphics drivers.

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