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Linux 6.8-rc3 Released - Slightly Larger But Not Too Worrying

Phoronix - Sun, 02/04/2024 - 22:09
Linus Torvalds is up early today and already issued Linux 6.8-rc3 as the newest weekly release candidate of the forthcoming Linux 6.8 kernel...

Cassia Aims To Pair Wine/DXVK/VKD3D-Proton/FEX For Windows Games On Android

Phoronix - Sun, 02/04/2024 - 22:01
Cassia is an in-development effort for running Microsoft Windows desktop games on Android. This work-in-progress effort is essentially akin to the Steam Play approach but targeted for Android users by leveraging Wine, DXVK, VKD3D-Proton, and then FEX for emulating x86_64 binaries on AArch64...

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Aims For A Nice Desktop Provisioning Experience

Phoronix - Sun, 02/04/2024 - 21:45
In addition to exploring low-latency changes for the "generic" kernel image, frame pointers by default, and possible x86-64-v3 optimizations, another area being invested into feature work for this next long-term support release is on the desktop provisioning side. Building off work of their new Ubuntu desktop installer and unifying the installation tech that has already been used by Ubuntu Server, Canonical is hoping for a nice desktop provisioning experience in facilitating automated installations, managed desktop setups within enterprises, and OEM/ODM deployments...

AMD's Work On Upstreaming AMDGPU/ROCm Debugging Support Into GDB

Phoronix - Sun, 02/04/2024 - 19:46
The AMD ROCm Debugger "ROCgdb" is maintained as a fork of the GNU Debugger (GDB) with support added for the heterogeneous debugging of the ROCm compute platform. ROCgdb works well and is distributed as part of the ROCM stack. The good news is that AMD is also working on getting this AMDGPU/ROCm debug support added into the upstream GDB debugger...

FreeBSD 13.3 Beta Released With Various Fixes & Minor Updates

Phoronix - Sun, 02/04/2024 - 19:36
FreeBSD 14 has been out as stable since last November, but for those still on the FreeBSD 13 stable series, FreeBSD 13.3 beta was released this weekend ahead of its planned stable release in March...

Linux 6.9 To Support The Power Profile Key On New Lenovo ThinkPads

Phoronix - Sun, 02/04/2024 - 04:08
On newer Lenovo ThinkPad laptops (2024+ models) there is a new key combination appearing to make it easy to switch between ACPI Platform Profiles for toggling your power/performance preference of the system. With the Linux 6.9 kernel coming in a few months this key will now work under Linux too...

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