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Wine 10.8 Released With Performance Improvement

Phoronix - Sat, 05/17/2025 - 09:38
Wine 10.8 is out today as the newest bi-weekly test release for this open-source solution to enjoy Windows games and apps on Linux. Wine is what also forms the basis of Valve's Proton for Steam Play for a great gaming experience on Linux...

Direct I/O For DMA-BUF Can Yield A Big Performance Win

Phoronix - Fri, 05/16/2025 - 22:41
Smart device manufacturer HONOR has posted a patch series adding direct I/O support to DMA-BUF with the "DMA_BUF_IOCTL_RW_FILE" flag. In turn this direct I/O use can yield significant throughput improvements and lower latency to help with AI model loading, real-time data streaming, and other uses...

AMD Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" Delivers Best Performance On Linux Over Windows 11 - Even With Gaming

Phoronix - Fri, 05/16/2025 - 18:40
Now having shown the very strong AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 Linux performance for this "Strix Halo" SoC with Radeon 8060S iGPU for its integrated graphics, you may be wondering on the same hardware how this compares to Microsoft Windows 11. Today's article is looking at the Microsoft Windows 11 Pro performance as shipped by HP on their ZBook Ultra 14 G1a laptop compared to Ubuntu 25.04 with a clean install.

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