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Wine 10.13 Released With One Month Worth Of Improvements

Phoronix - Sat, 08/16/2025 - 03:04
One month has passed since the Wine 10.12 release. While typically new Wine development releases are on a bi-weekly release cycle, summer holidays typically interfere for one release per year with the Wine project. Thankfully Wine 10.13 is out today to start the cycle anew...

Patches Posted For Raspberry Pi 5 Ethernet With The Upstream Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Sat, 08/16/2025 - 00:52
While the Raspberry Pi 5 is a great and popular Arm single board computer, some elements of getting the hardware support upstream have lagged behind just as was also the case with prior generations of the Raspberry Pi SBC. One of the enablement bits now inching its way toward the mainline kernel is Ethernet support on the Raspberry Pi 5...

Ubuntu Developing New "Dangerous" Desktop Images Concept

Phoronix - Sat, 08/16/2025 - 00:13
The Ubuntu Release Management Team is pursuing a new concept called "Dangerous" Desktop Images that will ship leading-edge Snaps atop the latest Ubuntu daily development images...

Intel FRED Suffers A Late "Incompatible Change" To The Architecture

Phoronix - Fri, 08/15/2025 - 20:24
Intel FRED has been seeing Linux software enablement going on for the past three years. FRED is the Flexible Return Event Delivery that overhauls CPU transitions between privilege levels with a goal of lower ring transition latency and more robust software support. Unfortunately it has a late breaking incompatible change to the architecture and the Linux kernel is now being patched for it...

DM-PCACHE Poised For Linux 6.18 As High Throughput, Low Latency DAX Cache

Phoronix - Fri, 08/15/2025 - 20:01
Barring any issues from coming up in the near future, it looks like DM-PCACHE will be submitted for the Linux 6.18 cycle later in the year as a high throughput, low latency cache for DAX-capable persistent memory devices...

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