Open-source News

Wine 5.15 Release Brings Initial Work On XACT Engine Libraries

Phoronix - Sat, 08/15/2020 - 05:46
Wine 5.15 is out as the latest bi-weekly development snapshot for this program allowing Windows games/applications to generally run quite gracefully on Linux and other platforms...

Intel Details TDX To Better Protect Virtual Machines

Phoronix - Sat, 08/15/2020 - 02:06
Intel has published a whitepaper on their new TDX "Trust Domain Extensions" technology for better securing virtual machines...

Linux 5.9 Dropping Xen 32-bit PV Guest Support

Phoronix - Fri, 08/14/2020 - 22:07
Back in Linux 5.4 Xen 32-bit PV guest support was deprecated while now for Linux 5.9 it's set to be removed entirely. Last year's deprecation comes with the 32-bit usage dwindling in general but PVH being preferred to PV, Meltdown mitigations not being present, and the code not seeing much activity. Now for Linux 5.9 that support is being gutted...

Wine Developer Begins Experimenting With macOS ARM64 Support

Phoronix - Fri, 08/14/2020 - 21:52
Over the months ahead with Apple preparing future desktops/laptops with their in-house Apple silicon built on the ARM 64-bit architecture, Wine developers are beginning to eye how to support these future 64-bit ARM systems with macOS Big Sur...

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