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Qt 6.9 Toolkit Beta 2 Now Available For Testing

Phoronix - Wed, 01/22/2025 - 18:57
The second of three planned betas for the Qt 6.9 cross-platform UI toolkit is now available for testing ahead of the planned stable release in March...

FreeBSD 15.0 Aims For Reproducible Builds / Zero-Trust Builds With Fresh Funding

Phoronix - Wed, 01/22/2025 - 09:36
The FreeBSD Foundation has begun receiving funding to work on zero-trust builds / reproducible builds. The work will hopefully be wrapped up in time for the major FreeBSD 15.0 release...

SDL 3 Officially Released With New APIs, Better HiDPI & Improved Audio Handling

Phoronix - Wed, 01/22/2025 - 06:05
In addition to the Wine 10.0 stable release today, making the day very exciting as well for Linux gamers is the first official SDL 3.0 release!..

Btrfs Changes Land In Linux 6.14 With New RAID1 Round-Robin Option

Phoronix - Wed, 01/22/2025 - 05:35
In addition to the Bcachefs changes for the Linux 6.14 kernel, the Btrfs file-system feature updates have also been submitted and merged for this next version of the Linux kernel...

New "AMD Node" Driver Introduced In Linux 6.14 For Splitting Up Legacy Northbridge Code

Phoronix - Wed, 01/22/2025 - 03:10
On the first day of the Linux 6.14 merge window there were a number of new AMD CPU features submitted. That's continued today with so far having the new "amd_node" driver to talk about for splitting up the modern Zen-era code and more of the legacy AMD Northbridge code from the pre-Zen days...

Wine 10.0 Released With Native Wayland Support, Better HiDPI

Phoronix - Wed, 01/22/2025 - 01:03
As was expected this week, Wine 10.0 stable is now available as the newest annual feature release to this open-source software that allows running Windows games and applications on Linux and other platforms. Wine also serves as the basis for Valve's Steam Play (Proton) and CodeWeavers' CrossOver software...

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