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Wine-Staging 10.3 Adds Patch For A 15 Year Old Bug

Phoronix - Sat, 03/08/2025 - 19:38
Building off yesterday's release of Wine 10.3 is now Wine-Staging 10.3 for this more experimental version of Wine that is presently shipping 347 experimental/testing patches atop the upstream state...

KDE This Week Took Care Of "A Very Large Number Of Bugs"

Phoronix - Sat, 03/08/2025 - 19:22
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with the newest issue of This Week in Plasma to highlight all of the interesting KDE Plasma improvements merged for the week...

Wine 10.3 Wires Up Wayland Driver Clipboard Handling, Vulkan Video Decode Within WineD3D

Phoronix - Sat, 03/08/2025 - 05:40
Wine 10.3 was just released as the newest bi-weekly development release for this open-source software to run Windows applications and games under Linux and other platforms...

GNOME 48 Release Candidate Brings Late Mutter Features & Other Changes

Phoronix - Sat, 03/08/2025 - 05:22
The GNOME 48 release candidate "48.rc" is out this evening as we approach the stable release of the GNOME 48 desktop in two weeks...

Vulkan Video Continues Making Inroads, VP9 Decode Planned For This Year

Phoronix - Sat, 03/08/2025 - 02:28
At the Vulkanised 2025 conference a few weeks back in Cambridge (UK) there were a few presentations concerning Vulkan Video for this cross-vendor, cross-platform video encode/decode interface...

Ubuntu To Revert "-O3" Optimizations, Continues Quest For Easier ARM64 Installations

Phoronix - Sat, 03/08/2025 - 00:10
Canonical engineer Matthieu Clemenceau has posted a status update on the behalf of the Ubuntu Foundations engineers now half-way through the Ubuntu 25.04 development cycle. A number of notable package updates have landed as well as continued work on better ARM64 support and coming to a decision over "-O3" optimized packages...

AMD Officially Confirms Ryzen 9 9900X3D + Ryzen 9 9950X3D Pricing & Availability

Phoronix - Fri, 03/07/2025 - 23:41
Back in January at CES was the Ryzen 9 9000X3D and Ryzen 9 9950X3D announcement while today AMD officially confirmed the release date and pricing on these new Zen 5 desktop CPUs with 3D V-Cache...

GCC 15 Now Enables AArch64 Early Scheduling For -O3/-Ofast Modes

Phoronix - Fri, 03/07/2025 - 23:13
The GCC "-fschedule-insns" option allows for reordering of instructions to eliminate execution stalls when required data is unavailable. This early scheduling option can be beneficial for systems with slow floating point performance or costly memory load instructions. With the upcoming GCC 15 release, AArch64 will be enabling this early scheduling optimization at the -O3 optimization level and higher...

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