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Eclipse OpenJ9 0.27 Released For OpenJDK 8/11/16 Alternative

Phoronix - Tue, 07/27/2021 - 01:44
The Eclipse Foundation has released OpenJ9 as the latest version of their high performance virtual machine that continues advancing four years after IBM donated the original J9 code...

DXVK 1.9.1 Released With Several Game Fixes

Phoronix - Mon, 07/26/2021 - 22:17
DXVK 1.9.1 is out as the newest version of this key component to Steam Play / Proton for running Windows games on Linux with DXVK being responsible for translating Direct3D 9/10/11 calls to Vulkan...

XanMod, Liquorix Kernels Offer Some Advantages On AMD Ryzen 5 Notebook

Phoronix - Mon, 07/26/2021 - 20:32
Motivated in part by the recent le9 kernel patches that are already carried by XanMod and not having benchmarked the XanMod or Liquorix Linux kernel downstreams in a while, here are some fresh benchmarks of Liquorix and XanMod against the recent upstream Linux kernel releases.

Haiku R1 Beta 3 Released As Spiritual Successor To BeOS

Phoronix - Mon, 07/26/2021 - 17:50
One year after Haiku R1 Beta 2, the third beta of this inaugural release of the open-source Haiku operating system is now available for testing. Haiku remains the open-source OS project going on two decades for advancing as the spiritual successor to BeOS...

SDL2 Lands Support For Client-Side Decorations On Wayland

Phoronix - Mon, 07/26/2021 - 17:35
The SDL2 library that is commonly used by many cross-platform games landed several patches this weekend to improve its Wayland support...

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