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Valve Releases Updated Proton 10.0 Beta For Testing

Phoronix - Wed, 05/07/2025 - 03:47
Last week Valve introduced Proton 10.0 beta as the newest version of their Wine-derived software for Steam Play that enables countless Windows games to run well for Linux gamers on the desktop and with the extremely popular Steam Deck. Out today is another Proton 10.0 beta update with some additional bug and regression fixes over what was shipped last week...

RISC-V LLVM Scheduler Tuning For SpacemiT-X60 On Clang Yields 4~18% Speedups

Phoronix - Wed, 05/07/2025 - 03:34
The SpacemiT-X60 RISC-V SoC can enjoy some very healthy performance improvements with scheduler definitions now merged for the LLVM/Clang 21 compiler...

Microsoft Welcomes Fedora Linux As An Official WSL Distro

Phoronix - Wed, 05/07/2025 - 00:12
Microsoft announced today that Fedora Linux is now treated as an official distribution within their Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) confines...

Ampere Computing Soft Announces AmpereOne M With 12 Channel DDR5 Memory

Phoronix - Tue, 05/06/2025 - 23:34
Ampere Computing last year talked up AmpereOne M for 12-channel DDR5 memory and up to 192 cores up from the 8-channel DDR5 memory found with the initial AmpereOne processors. They said at the time AmpereOne M would be shipping in Q4-2024. Now half way into 2025, it looks like they quietly announced the AmpereOne M processors...

Kurchu Tool Taking Shape For Assembling Fedora / CentOS Linux Distro ISOs

Phoronix - Tue, 05/06/2025 - 23:05
As an alternative to the likes of the Pungi tool, Kurchu is a newer project within the CentOS/Fedora space for assembling content collections or ISO images of Linux distribution builds. Kurchu is already seeing use by the CentOS Hyperscale SIG for assembling their images while additional functionality continues to be worked on for those wanting to craft their own Fedora/CentOS install images...

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