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Wine Releases Framework Mono 6.14 In Taking Over The Mono Project

Phoronix - Sun, 03/09/2025 - 01:28
Last year Microsoft donated the Mono Project to Wine for its stewardship under the WineHQ umbrella. Today marks the Framework Mono 6.14 release as the first major Mono release in five years and the first under the WineHQ organization...

Rust Coreutils 0.0.30 Enhances GNU Compatibility, Uutils To Port More Common Unix Tools

Phoronix - Sat, 03/08/2025 - 23:02
The uutils project has released Rust Coreutils 0.0.30 as the newest version of this GNU Coreutils rewrite within the Rust programming language. Uutils developers will also be targeting more common Unix tools to port over to Rust too...

GTK On Android & macOS Seeing Improvements

Phoronix - Sat, 03/08/2025 - 20:07
In addition to Friday's very exciting GNOME 48 release candidate with some last minute features, there have also been some other GNOME-related changes this week to call out...

Mesa's Venus Driver Adds Vulkan Ray-Tracing Support For VMs

Phoronix - Sat, 03/08/2025 - 19:50
Mesa's Venus driver that allows for 3D graphics acceleration within virtual machines is now able to make use of the Vulkan ray-tracing extensions when using Mesa 25.1-devel along with updated Venus Protocol and Virglrenderer code...

Wine-Staging 10.3 Adds Patch For A 15 Year Old Bug

Phoronix - Sat, 03/08/2025 - 19:38
Building off yesterday's release of Wine 10.3 is now Wine-Staging 10.3 for this more experimental version of Wine that is presently shipping 347 experimental/testing patches atop the upstream state...

KDE This Week Took Care Of "A Very Large Number Of Bugs"

Phoronix - Sat, 03/08/2025 - 19:22
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with the newest issue of This Week in Plasma to highlight all of the interesting KDE Plasma improvements merged for the week...

Wine 10.3 Wires Up Wayland Driver Clipboard Handling, Vulkan Video Decode Within WineD3D

Phoronix - Sat, 03/08/2025 - 05:40
Wine 10.3 was just released as the newest bi-weekly development release for this open-source software to run Windows applications and games under Linux and other platforms...

GNOME 48 Release Candidate Brings Late Mutter Features & Other Changes

Phoronix - Sat, 03/08/2025 - 05:22
The GNOME 48 release candidate "48.rc" is out this evening as we approach the stable release of the GNOME 48 desktop in two weeks...

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