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Oracle Reaffirms Supporting Solaris 11 Through Part Of The Next Decade

Phoronix - Sat, 09/28/2019 - 12:05
Oracle has reaffirmed their "long term commitment to deliver innovation on Oracle Solaris" though it still doesn't look like anything past Solaris 11 will materialize...

DXVK 1.4.1 Released With Workarounds For Batman: Arkham City, Hitman 2

Phoronix - Sat, 09/28/2019 - 05:55
DXVK lead developer Philip Rebohle has done another weekly update to DXVK for helping weekend gamers have the best Steam Play / Proton experience...

Wine 4.17 Adds DXTn Compressed Textures, Windows Script Runtime Library

Phoronix - Sat, 09/28/2019 - 05:08
Wine 4.17 has been uncorked for weekend testing as the newest bi-weekly feature development release of this open-source project for running Windows games/applications on Linux and other platforms...

Linus Torvalds Hasn't Yet Decided On "LOCKDOWN" Functionality For Linux 5.4

Phoronix - Sat, 09/28/2019 - 03:10
The Linux 5.4 kernel merge window is set to close this weekend and as of writing it's still yet to be decided by Linus Torvalds whether to accept the kernel "lockdown" functionality feature for this release...

Linux 5.4 To Allow Adjusting Intel TCC Thermal Activation Offset For Better Performance

Phoronix - Sat, 09/28/2019 - 02:21
In addition to adding Intel Icelake support to the kernel's processor thermal / int340x code, there is an interesting change with the thermal management updates for Linux 5.4 to potentially boost the performance on Intel platforms...

Initial Benchmarks Of CentOS 8.0 & CentOS Stream On Intel Xeon / AMD EPYC

Phoronix - Fri, 09/27/2019 - 22:16
With this week's release of the much anticipated CentOS 8.0 as the community/free rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 as well as the surprise announcement of the bleeding-edge, rolling-release CentOS Stream, we have begun benchmarking these enterprise Linux distribution releases. Up today are our first tests of CentOS 7.7 against CentOS 8.0 and the early CentOS Stream state on Intel Xeon Cascadelake and AMD EPYC Rome servers.

Lenovo To Address Linux Laptop Thermal Throttling, Lower Performance Against Windows

Phoronix - Fri, 09/27/2019 - 21:07
For owners of recent Lenovo laptops that find frequent thermal throttling and ultimately lower performance compared to Windows, the company has formally acknowledged the issue and is working towards addressing the issue...

Linux 5.4 Looks To Unify Way To Calculate The Size Of A Member Of A Struct

Phoronix - Fri, 09/27/2019 - 19:30
It has surprisingly taken until the Linux 5.4 kernel in 2019 to potentially have a single unified way for calculating the size of a member of a struct within the kernel: Linux 5.4 is looking at adding a new sizeof_member macro for handling this purpose...

TURNIP Vulkan Driver Is Back To Seeing Activity

Phoronix - Fri, 09/27/2019 - 18:56
One of the lesser known Vulkan drivers within Mesa is TURNIP but at least this week it's been seeing new activity after a recent lull of activity...

A Last Call For Our Phoronix Premium 2019 Autumn Special

Phoronix - Fri, 09/27/2019 - 18:37
Just a friendly reminder in case you wanted to help support our open-source/Linux news coverage, Linux hardware reviews, and benchmarking work...

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