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Box64 v0.3.2 Emulator Adds Box32 Option, Introduces Native Flags & More

Phoronix - Sat, 12/07/2024 - 00:28
Box64 v0.3.2 is out today as the newest feature release to this Linux user-space emulator for allowing x86_64 binaries to run on ARM64 (AArch64) Linux devices. Box64 is one of the leading ways for allowing x86_64 games and Steam to be able to run on ARM 64-bit Linux devices...

Linux Preps For Kunpeng ARM Server SoC With High Bandwidth Memory

Phoronix - Fri, 12/06/2024 - 23:03
New Linux patches from Huawei engineers are preparing new driver support for controlling High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) with the ARM-based Kunpeng high performance SoC...

openSUSE Leap Micro 6.1 Brings Nice Improvements To This Lightweight Linux OS

Phoronix - Fri, 12/06/2024 - 21:48
openSUSE Leap Micro 6.1 is now available as the newest version of this lightweight Linux operating system built for containerized environments and virtualized workloads...

Fwupd 2.0.3 Delivers Latest Firmware Updating Capabilities For Linux Systems

Phoronix - Fri, 12/06/2024 - 21:38
Fwupd 2.0 debuted back in October while out today is Fwupd 2.0.3 as the newest incremental update to this open-source solution for updating system and device firmware under Linux...

Fedora 42 Eyes Replacing SDL2 With sdl2-compat To Leverage SDL3

Phoronix - Fri, 12/06/2024 - 19:58
The SDL2 library is widely used by cross-platform games and other software. Fedora 42 is eyeing the possibility of replacing SDL2 with the sdl2-compat code so that by way of this compatibility layer the newer SDL3 version will ultimately be used instead...

Broadcom BCM2712 MOPLET Graphics For Linux 6.14, Other Early drm-misc-next Code

Phoronix - Fri, 12/06/2024 - 19:43
While the Linux v6.13 merge window has been over for less than one week, already the first pull requests of new feature code are being submitted to DRM-Next for queuing the display/graphics driver changes ahead of the Linux 6.14 merge window in two months...

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