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Intel Releases Cloud-Hypervisor 0.4 As Its Rust-Written VMM Built Off KVM

Phoronix - Sat, 12/14/2019 - 13:01
Friday marked not only the release of QEMU 4.2 for Linux virtualization but Intel's open-source crew developing the Cloud-Hypervisor as the Rustlang-based VMM built around Linux's KVM and VirtIO interfaces is out with a big feature release...

Wine 5.0-RC1 Released With Unicode 12.1 Support, Initial ActiveX Data Objects Library

Phoronix - Sat, 12/14/2019 - 05:38
As was expected, today marks the first release candidate of Wine 5.0 that ushers in the code freeze ahead of this annual stable update for running Windows programs and games on Linux and other platforms...

Fedora Deciding Whether CD/DVD Installation Issues Should Still Hold Up Releases

Phoronix - Sat, 12/14/2019 - 04:02
Fedora will continue producing ISO images of their distribution that can be installed to a DVD (or CD in the case of some lightweight spins) or more commonly these days copied to USB flash drives, but they are debating whether any CD/DVD optical media issues should still be considered blocker bugs in 2020 and beyond...

Proton 4.11-10 Adds Halo: Master Chief Collection Support, Integer Scaling, Other Game Improvements

Phoronix - Sat, 12/14/2019 - 01:38
Valve has released Proton 4.11-10 and with this update to their blend of Wine that powers Steam Play is support for Halo: The Master Chief Collection among other Windows game improvements...

GNOME 3.36 Bringing Better Multi-GPU Handling With Switcheroo-Control, NVIDIA Support

Phoronix - Sat, 12/14/2019 - 00:58
For a few years GNOME has supported a "launch on discrete GPU" option for applications within the Shell's menu while for GNOME 3.36 that support is being cleaned up and extended to also handle NVIDIA GPU configurations...

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