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Rust Linux Developers Compared To Road Builders & Mapmakers

Phoronix - Fri, 08/30/2024 - 18:23
Longtime Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem maintainer David Airlie of Red Hat has written an interesting blog post providing an analogy to types of developers compared to road builders and hotels...

VKD3D 1.13 Improves Direct3D 12 API Support Atop Vulkan

Phoronix - Fri, 08/30/2024 - 18:00
The Wine project has released VKD3D 1.13 as the newest version of this open-source code for mapping Microsoft's Direct3D 12 API atop the Vulkan API for helping to accelerate Windows games and applications on Linux...

Debian Orphans Bcachefs-Tools: "Impossible To Maintain In Debian Stable"

Phoronix - Fri, 08/30/2024 - 05:12
Even before the Bcachefs file-system driver was accepted into the mainline kernel, Debian for the past five years has offered a "bcachefs-tools" package to provide the user-space programs to this copy-on-write file-system. It was simple at first when it was simple C code but since the Bcachefs tools transitioned to Rust, it's become an unmaintainable mess for stable-minded distribution vendors. As such the bcachefs-tools package has now been orphaned by Debian...

Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS Released With All Stable Release Updates Included

Phoronix - Fri, 08/30/2024 - 04:16
Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS has been released as the first point release of the current Long Term Support series that began in April with the "Noble Numbat" debut...

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