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KDE Plasma 5.24 Adds An Overview Effect Inspired By GNOME's Activities Overview

Phoronix - Sat, 11/20/2021 - 19:55
Even with the holidays ahead the KDE developers remain very busy improving their desktop software stack for Plasma 5.24 and other forthcoming component releases...

Picolibc 1.7.4 Brings Improved Meson Support, Restructured Math Code

Phoronix - Sat, 11/20/2021 - 18:55
Picolibc as the open-source C library optimized for small embedded systems with limited RAM capacities is out with a new update...

Linux Kernel Patches Updated for x86/x86_64 SLS Mitigation

Phoronix - Sat, 11/20/2021 - 18:34
With GCC 12 having added a new option to enable Straight Line Speculation "SLS" mitigation for x86/x86_64 CPUs, Linux kernel developers are preparing to enable this new compiler feature for further reducing undesirable speculation exposure...

Wine 6.22 Released With Mono 7.0, Joystick Improvements

Phoronix - Sat, 11/20/2021 - 05:53
Wine 6.22 is out as the latest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for running Windows games and applications on Linux and other platforms like macOS and FreeBSD. Wine 6.22 brings more improvements while the Wine 7.0 stable release is inching closer...

Box86 + Box64 Updated For Running Linux x86/x86_64 Programs On Other Architectures

Phoronix - Sat, 11/20/2021 - 05:27
Box86 as the open-source project to run Linux x86 binaries on other CPU architectures like ARM is out with a new feature release along with the accompanying Box64 project for x86_64 treatment. With today's Box86 update is even expanded Vulkan support now good enough for handling DXVK...

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