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CodeWeavers Launches CrossOver Preview For Linux ARM64

Phoronix - Thu, 11/06/2025 - 23:18
CodeWeavers announced this morning a new CrossOver Preview that includes Linux ARM64 support for the first time. This commercial software built atop Wine is now comfortable with the state of running Windows x86/x64 apps on Linux ARM64 and even the ability ro enjoy many Windows games on ARM64 Linux devices like the System76 Thelio Astra...

Cloudflare Makes Open-Source The Rust Code To Tokio-Quiche

Phoronix - Thu, 11/06/2025 - 22:55
Cloudflare announced today they have open-sourced the code to Tokio-Quiche as their async QUIC library that combines their previously-open-sourced Quiche QUIC implementation with Rust's Tokio async runtime...

RadeonSI + ACO Brings Some Performance Gains For Radeon Workstation Graphics

Phoronix - Thu, 11/06/2025 - 22:12
Last week Mesa 26.0-devel enabled the ACO back-end by default within the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver for all supported Radeon graphics cards by this open-source Linux driver. This move was done in the name of better performance, faster shader compilation times, and ACO being all-around better than the AMDGPU LLVM back-end these days for both OpenGL and Vulkan use. It was also noted that RadeonSI has "slightly better" viewperf performance with NIR+ACO than using the AMDGPU LLVM back-end. Curious about that SPECViewPerf impact, here are some benchmarks with the recently released AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 graphics card...

FreeDesktop.org Adopts The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard

Phoronix - Thu, 11/06/2025 - 19:18
Adding to the array of software projects and specifications under the FreeDesktop.org umbrella, the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard "FHS" has been adopted by these desktop-focused open-source developers...

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