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Wine 8.0-rc1 Released With VKD3D 1.6, Vulkan/OpenGL Thunking Optimizations

Phoronix - Sat, 12/10/2022 - 05:23
As planned the first release candidate of Wine 8.0 is now available that marks the culmination of the Wine 7.xx bi-weekly development releases and now onto the strictly bug-fixing phase before introducing Wine 8.0 as stable in early 2023...

Qt 6.5 Adding Wayland Native Interface

Phoronix - Sat, 12/10/2022 - 01:00
The Qt6 toolkit introduced the notion of platform-specific objects via the QNativeInterface namespace and now set to come with Qt 6.5 is support for a Wayland native interface for application developers wanting to interact directly with Wayland object handles...

The Performance Of Arch Linux Powered CachyOS

Phoronix - Fri, 12/09/2022 - 23:30
Recently there have been a number of Phoronix readers writing in about CachyOS, an Arch Linux based distribution that is new and is focused on " better speed, security and ease of use," So of course there has been requests to see how well CachyOS performs against other distributions... In thus article is an initial look at the CachyOS performance compared to that of also Arch Linux based Endeavour OS, Ubuntu 22.10, Fedora Workstation 37, and then Intel's Clear Linux that is already well known for its performance attributes.

PipeWire 0.3.62 Released With Bluetooth Offloading Support

Phoronix - Fri, 12/09/2022 - 22:54
PipeWire 0.3.62 is out today as the newest feature and bug-fixing update to this open-source project that has begun conquering the Linux desktop for managing audio and video streams...

NVIDIA CUDA 12.0 Released With Official JIT LTO, C++20 Dialect Support

Phoronix - Fri, 12/09/2022 - 22:39
NVIDIA has released CUDA 12.0 as the latest major feature update to their proprietary compute API...

AMDVLK 2022.Q4.3 Vulkan Driver Released With More Performance Tuning

Phoronix - Fri, 12/09/2022 - 20:49
Ahead of next week's Radeon RX 7900 series hitting retail availability, AMD today issued a new AMDVLK driver update as their official open-source Vulkan Linux driver...

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