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Wine 10.18 Released With More WoW64 Mode Improvements

Phoronix - Sat, 11/01/2025 - 08:35
Wine 10.18 is now available for capping off the month of October and working toward the code freeze for Wine 11.0 beginning in early December...

GNOME Gains A New macOS-Inspired Quick Menu Option

Phoronix - Sat, 11/01/2025 - 05:41
For GNOME desktop users desiring a more macOS-like experience, a new GNOME extension provides a macOS-inspired quick menu option...

KosmicKrisp Now Vulkan 1.3 Compliant For Apple Devices

Phoronix - Sat, 11/01/2025 - 00:14
Over the summer months LunarG announced KosmicKrisp as a new Vulkan-on-Metal implementation for Apple devices and built around Mesa. That alternative to MoltenVK was upstreamed for next quarter's Mesa 26.0 release and now it's also celebrating being an officially Vulkan 1.3 conformant implementation...

Ubuntu 25.10 amd64v3 Benchmarks: Some Minor & Rare Performance Advantages For Desktop Workloads

Phoronix - Fri, 10/31/2025 - 21:36
Yesterday Canonical announced architecture variants for Ubuntu Linux with Ubuntu 25.10 seeing the introduction of "amd64v3" packages that are built for the x86_64-v3 micro-architecture feature level to assume AVX/AVX2 and other newer CPU ISA features found since Intel Haswell and AMD Excavator processors. Eager to run some initial tests, here is a first look at the Ubuntu 25.10 amd64v3 performance for desktop workloads.

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