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Hangover 8.15 Released With Box64 Integration As PE Library

Phoronix - Tue, 09/05/2023 - 18:15
Building off Friday's release of Wine 8.15 is a new version of Hangover, the Wine-based software that aims to ease the deployment of Wine with x86/x86_64 Windows software support atop AArch64 processors and other CPU architectures...

Some AMD CPUs To Benefit From New Micro-Optimization In Linux 6.6

Phoronix - Tue, 09/05/2023 - 17:50
One of the patches to be picked up by the Linux 6.6 kernel this week brings back REP MOSQ for user-access on CPUs without Enhanced REP MOVSB (ERMS) support. In turn this can equate to some performance benefits on AMD CPUs lacking ERMS...

Manjaro 23.0 Released With GNOME 44, KDE Plasma 5.27 & Xfce 4.18 Desktop Options

Phoronix - Tue, 09/05/2023 - 17:26
Manjaro 23.0 "Uranos" has been released as the latest version of this desktop-focused Linux distribution built atop Arch Linux...

10 Tools to Take or Capture Desktop Screenshots in Linux

Tecmint - Tue, 09/05/2023 - 13:48
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Most of the time we need to take screenshots of the whole screen or some part of the window on the screen. While on Android

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Linux Fix Incoming For Intel Fallout After The Kernel Disabled Buggy AMD fTPM RNG

Phoronix - Tue, 09/05/2023 - 07:58
The decision last month for the Linux kernel to disable random number generation (RNG) for all AMD fTPMs ended up having some unintended consequences on Intel systems that ended up breaking S3 suspend behavior...

Microsoft Adds AMD SEV-SNP & Intel TDX Guest Support To Hyper-V With Linux 6.6

Phoronix - Tue, 09/05/2023 - 05:14
Microsoft continues improving the Hyper-V support within the Linux kernel for benefiting Linux guest VMs running within this hypervisor on Windows. With Linux 6.6 the Hyper-V code adds support for SEV-SNP secure guests on the AMD EPYC side while over on the Intel Xeon Scalable Sapphire Rapids side is initial support for Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) protected guests...

DXVK 2.3 Brings Presentation Improvements, More Game Fixes, "hideNvidiaGpu" Option

Phoronix - Tue, 09/05/2023 - 00:10
It's been nearly four months since the release of DXVK 2.2 for this Direct3D 9/10/11 API implementation built atop the Vulkan API that is used by Valve's Steam Play (Proton) for enjoying Windows games on Linux. Out today is DXVK 2.3 as the latest major step forward for the project...

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