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Hangover Alpha 2 Lets Windows x86/x64 Programs Run On ARM64, POWER 64-bit

Phoronix - Sun, 11/01/2020 - 04:36
The Wine program for running Windows games/applications on Linux and other platforms can run on a number of different architectures, but Wine doesn't handle the emulation of running Windows x86/x64 binaries on other architectures like 64-bit ARM or PowerPC. But that's what the Wine-based Hangover is about with currently allowing those conventional Windows binaries to run on AArch64 (ARM64) and 64-bit POWER too...

Linux Mint Now Packaging Their Own Chromium, Developing New IPTV Player

Phoronix - Sun, 11/01/2020 - 03:50
With this month's Ubuntu/Debian-based Linux Mint development news there are two items worth calling attention to...

Intel Formally Announces Iris Xe MAX Graphics, Deep Link

Phoronix - Sun, 11/01/2020 - 00:01
Laptop vendors recently disclosed "Xe MAX" graphics as discrete Intel graphics set to appear within laptops in the coming weeks. That announcement was a bit unexpected and Intel did not brief the media in advance while today -- in an unusual announcement for a Saturday (Intel says it's timed for system availability, seemingly first in China) -- the company is formally announcing Iris Xe MAX.

AOMP 11.11 Released For LLVM Clang OpenMP Offloading To Radeon GPUs

Phoronix - Sat, 10/31/2020 - 20:56
This week brought the release of AMD's ROCm 3.9 as their open-source compute stack for Radeon GPUs. With ROCm 3.9 the AOMP work for LLVM/Clang-based compiler with OpenMP offload capabilities to Radeon GPUs was integrated. AOMP though is still advancing independently of the ROCm releases with Friday night marking the release of AOMP 11.11...

LLVM Clang 12 Adds Support For AVX-VNNI

Phoronix - Sat, 10/31/2020 - 18:15
The LLVM Clang compiler stack has merged its support for AVX-VNNI, the Vector Neural Network Instructions for AVX to complement the AVX-512 version...

KDE Saw A "Bug Massacre" This Week With Better NVIDIA Wayland Experience, Many Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 10/31/2020 - 17:56
The bug fixing in KDE land continues and ends the month with a "bug massacre", for how KDE developer Nate Graham describes it in his weekly recaps...

"NTFS3" Linux Driver Spun Up An 11th Time With More Optimizations

Phoronix - Sat, 10/31/2020 - 15:37
It's looking like Paragon Software's "NTFS3" read-write Linux driver for Microsoft's NTFS file-system is on a trajectory where we could see it land possibly with the Linux 5.11 kernel kicking off at year's end. Friday marked the eleventh iteration of these patches that Paragon previously offered to commercial customers but is now in the process of being upstreamed...

Linux 5.11 To Properly Support The Keyboard Of Newer ASUS Gaming Laptops

Phoronix - Sat, 10/31/2020 - 12:00
The Linux 5.11 kernel will bring support for the ASUS "N-Key" keyboard that is used by nearly all of the current ASUS gaming laptops...

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