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Wine 7.6 Released With Updated Mono, More PE Conversion

Phoronix - Sat, 04/09/2022 - 06:20
Wine 7.6 is out as the latest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for enjoying Windows games and applications on Linux and other platforms...

Intel Arctic Sound M Support Added To Mesa 22.1 Drivers

Phoronix - Sat, 04/09/2022 - 02:42
Ahead of next week's expected feature freeze / code branching for Mesa 22.1, Intel today committed Arctic Sound M "ATS-M" support for their open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers...

AMD SEV-SNP Appears Ready For Upstreaming In Linux 5.19

Phoronix - Sat, 04/09/2022 - 02:15
Introduced last year with the AMD EPYC 7003 "Milan" processors was SEV-SNP as the latest iteration of their Secure Encrypted Virtualization technology. SEV-SNP adds additional integrity protections and safeguards as part of this "Secure Nested Paging" extension of SEV. Finally with Linux 5.19 the SEV-SNP support should premiere in the mainline kernel...

New NVIDIA Open-Source Linux Kernel Graphics Driver Appears

Phoronix - Fri, 04/08/2022 - 21:35
Appearing with NVIDIA's latest Linux4Tegra code drop is a new open-source kernel graphics driver not previously published. This driver isn't based on the existing Nouveau driver but rather appears to be derived from their internal driver code-base with some copyright references going back to 90's...

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