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Wine 4.19 Implements More VBScript Functionality, ARM64 Support Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 11/02/2019 - 05:25
Wine 4.19 is out today as the project's first development release for November and as we get quite close to the feature freeze / RC period for Wine 5.0 that will be out in early 2020...

KDE Frameworks 6 Ideas To Be Floated At A Developer Sprint This Month

Phoronix - Sat, 11/02/2019 - 03:59
With Qt 6.0 planned for release in late 2020, KDE developers are thinking about the eventual KDE Frameworks 6.0 for when they plan to transition to the evolutionary Qt 6 tool-kit. The first of likely several developer sprints around KDE Frameworks 6 will be happening already in late November...

GNOME's Mutter Adds XWayland Full-Screen Games Workaround

Phoronix - Fri, 11/01/2019 - 23:32
Thanks to Red Hat's Hans de Goede there is another optimization to GNOME's Mutter around XWayland full-screen gaming...

vkBasalt CAS Vulkan Layer Adds FXAA Support

Phoronix - Fri, 11/01/2019 - 21:07
The open-source vkBasalt project is the independent effort implementing AMD Radeon Image Sharpening / Contrast Adaptive Sharpening technique as a Vulkan post-processing layer that can be used regardless of the (Vulkan-powered) game. With vkBasalt 0.1 also now comes the ability to apply FXAA...

Ice Lake, Ryzen 9, Kernel Happenings & Other Highlights For An Exciting October

Phoronix - Fri, 11/01/2019 - 19:47
During October on Phoronix there were 287 original news articles and 27 featured-length Linux hardware reviews / benchmark articles, all written by your's truly. Here is a look back at the most popular Linux hardware happenings and other open-source/Linux news for the past month...

Intel Submits Last Bits For Linux 5.5 DRM Driver - Includes More TGL/Gen12, Discrete Bit

Phoronix - Fri, 11/01/2019 - 19:21
Intel's open-source crew has submitted the last of their feature updates to their "i915" Direct Rendering Manager graphics driver for staging in DRM-Next ahead of the upcoming Linux 5.5 kernel cycle...

NVIDIA Engineer Continues Working On Proactive Memory Compaction For Linux

Phoronix - Fri, 11/01/2019 - 18:53
NVIDIA's Nitin Gupta continues working on proactive compaction for the Linux kernel's memory management code...

MidnightBSD 1.2 Brings Package Updates, Security/Bug Fixes

Phoronix - Fri, 11/01/2019 - 18:35
MidnightBSD is one of the easy-to-use, desktop-focused BSDs that makes it easy to run GNOME and other desktops like Lumina atop its FreeBSD base. MidnightBSD 1.2 was released on Halloween as an update providing updates to its base system and various fixes...

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