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VKD3D 1.18 Released With Numerous Improvements For Direct3D 12 On Vulkan

Phoronix - Thu, 11/20/2025 - 22:50
VKD3D 1.18 is now available for this Direct3D 12 implementation that is part of the upstream Wine project. The VKD3D 1.18 release also comes just ahead of next month's feature freeze for the upcoming Wine 11.0 stable release...

Firefox 147 Will Support The XDG Base Directory Specification

Phoronix - Thu, 11/20/2025 - 21:19
A 21 year old bug report requesting support of the XDG Base Directory specification is finally being addressed by Firefox. The Firefox 147 release should respect this XDG specification around where files should be positioned within Linux users' home directory...

Linux 6.19 Nova Driver Landing Boot42 Support For Next-Gen NVIDIA GPUs

Phoronix - Thu, 11/20/2025 - 19:40
Along with getting the NVIDIA GSP fully booted and initialized for Ampere GPUs with the Nova driver code coming to Linux 6.19, this next kernel version is also beginning to make preparations for eyeing next-generation NVIDIA GPU support on this open-source driver...

Rusticl Has Turned Out Remarkably Well For Open-Source OpenCL For Mesa Drivers

Phoronix - Thu, 11/20/2025 - 19:27
Rusticl as a modern OpenCL implementation for Mesa Gallium3D drivers has turned out remarkably well. Rusticl performance has evolved quite well for this Rust-based OpenCL driver and it continues tacking on new features / OpenCL extensions as well as working gracefully with more Mesa drivers. Rusticl lead developer Karol Herbst presented on some of the recent accomplishments for this driver back at XDC2025...

Intel Preps Linux KVM For Diamond Rapids' AVX10.2 & Expanded AMX

Phoronix - Thu, 11/20/2025 - 18:58
The latest feature enablement work happening by Intel for the Linux kernel with next-generation Diamond Rapids server processors are the adjustments to the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) for readying the new CPU ISA capabilities for a virtualized world...

How to Open and Edit Apple iWork Files on Linux

Tecmint - Thu, 11/20/2025 - 13:05
The post How to Open and Edit Apple iWork Files on Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Apple iWork is Apple’s suite of office applications, similar to Microsoft Office or Google Docs, consisting of three main applications

The post How to Open and Edit Apple iWork Files on Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

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MEMINSPECT Proposed For The Linux Kernel To Help In Memory Analysis / Debugging

Phoronix - Thu, 11/20/2025 - 09:51
A patch series sent out today on the Linux kernel mailing list proposes "MEMINSPECT" as a new mechanism for helping with memory analysis...

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