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KDE Plasma Wayland Now Supports High Resolution Scrolling

Phoronix - Sat, 10/15/2022 - 17:19
The KDE Plasma Wayland session is finally supporting high resolution scroll wheel support that was engineered by Red Hat and originally supported under GNOME for allowing a smoother scrolling experience on the Linux desktop...

Linux 6.0.2, 5.19.16 & Other Point Releases Arrive For Fixing WiFi Stack Vulnerabilities

Phoronix - Sat, 10/15/2022 - 16:53
This morning's batch of Linux kernel point releases to existing stable series is worth upgrading to given the important security fixes...

Wine 7.19 Released With VKD3D 1.5, MPEG-4 Audio Support

Phoronix - Sat, 10/15/2022 - 06:36
While the freeze ahead of Wine 8.0 is quickly approaching, Wine 7.19 is out today as the newest development release for this open-source software allowing Windows games and applications to run on Linux and macOS...

Genode's Sculpt OS 22.10 Brings Performance Optimizations, Better USB Hotplug

Phoronix - Sat, 10/15/2022 - 02:13
Genode Labs as the creators of the open-source Genode Operating System Framework have released Sculpt OS 22.10 as the newest version of their general purpose operating system...

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X "Zen 4" Rocks On Intel's Clear Linux

Phoronix - Fri, 10/14/2022 - 22:54
This shouldn't be too surprising to long-time Phoronix readers, but Intel's performance-optimized Clear Linux operating system is yielding great performance with AMD Ryzen 7000 series "Zen 4" processors. Intel's Clear Linux has long shipped HWCAPS support and tuning for AVX-512 and the like to be able to provide optimized libraries when running on their own AVX-512 processors. But with AMD now joining the AVX-512 party -- and Zen 4's AVX-512 implementation performing great -- Intel's Clear Linux distribution is showing leading performance numbers on these new AMD desktop processors.

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