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Box64 0.2 Gets DXVK 2.0 Running, Many Other Improvements For Emulating x86_64 On Arm

Phoronix - Thu, 11/17/2022 - 22:36
In addition to the very successful FEX-Emu emulator for enjoying Linux x86/x86_64 games on AArch64 and other x86/x86_64 software on Arm there is also the Box86 and Box64 projects with similar goals. Out today is Box64 v0.2 and Box86 v0.2.8 for running Linux binaries on other architectures...

Vulkan 1.3.235 Released With New VK_EXT_descriptor_buffer Extension

Phoronix - Thu, 11/17/2022 - 22:22
The Khronos Group announced the release of Vulkan 1.3.235 as the latest routine spec update to this high performance graphics and compute API...

GNU Binutils Lands New "SFrame" Format Support For Simple Stack Unwinding

Phoronix - Thu, 11/17/2022 - 22:00
Being merged this week to GNU Binutils is initial support for reading and writing to new "SFrame" sections of binaries...

openSUSE Leap Micro 5.3 Released For Modern, Lightweight Linux OS

Phoronix - Thu, 11/17/2022 - 20:24
OpenSUSE has officially released openSUSE Leap Micro 5.3 as the newest version of their OS built atop SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP4 and SLE Micro 5.3 for providing a lightweight, modern OS that is auto-updating, immutable, and provides other distinct features over Tumbleweed or Leap...

AMD Introduces New Hotplug Driver Option For The X.Org Server

Phoronix - Thu, 11/17/2022 - 19:30
Currently when hot-plugging a new GPU to a running X.Org Server, the generic xf86-video-modesetting DDX driver ends up being utilized. However, a new "HotplugDriver" xorg.conf option has been introduced by AMD to allow users to specify their desired DDX driver. In turn this makes it possible for those hot-plugging hardware like AMD Radeon GPUs such as within eGPU enclosures to specify using the xf86-video-amdgpu driver instead...

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