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Mir 2.23 Released With New Documentation For Building A Desktop Environment

Phoronix - Mon, 10/13/2025 - 22:39
Mir 2.23 is out today as the newest version of this Canonical-led library for crafting Wayland-based shells and for smaller desktops to ease the adoption of Wayland, with a focus on Ubuntu Linux platforms...

Updated Intel Patches For Cache Aware Scheduling Net A 44% Win For AMD EPYC

Phoronix - Mon, 10/13/2025 - 21:15
In the works the past number of months has been cache-aware load balancing / cache aware scheduling support for Linux. The latest iteration of those patches by Intel were posted this weekend and are enjoying the most uplift on AMD EPYC Genoa and newer platforms...

Box64 0.3.8 Brings DynaCache As Disk Cache For Generated Native Code From x86_64

Phoronix - Mon, 10/13/2025 - 20:23
Box64 0.3.8 is now available for this x86_64 user-space emulator for Linux that allows ARM64 and RISC-V 64-bit and LoongArch 64-bit systems to enjoy running x86_64 games and applications. Box64 along with the likes of FEX-Emu are the leading options for those needing to run x86_64 programs on ARM64 and elsewhere...

Intel Removing AMX-TRANSPOSE From The GCC Compiler

Phoronix - Mon, 10/13/2025 - 18:43
One year ago updated Intel documentation noted AMX-TRANSPOSE as one of the new ISA additions for Diamond Rapids. But in updated Intel architecture documentation last month, it oddly removed all references to AMX-TRANSPOSE. Confirming that the Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) addition for TRANSPOSE is now dead, an Intel engineer posted a patch to remove AMX-TRANSPOSE from the GCC compiler...

ReactOS Making Progress On Windows WDDM Driver Support

Phoronix - Mon, 10/13/2025 - 18:33
The ReactOS project that continues striving toward being an "open-source Windows" ABI compatible operating system has been seeing some activity recently around supporting Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) display drivers as the newer evolution of XDDM drivers...

GNOME's Flatpak Runtime Drops 32-bit Compatibility Extension

Phoronix - Mon, 10/13/2025 - 18:22
With last month's GNOME 49 release, the 32-bit Compatibility extension for the GNOME Flatpak Runtime is no more. This is part of the broader effort of phasing out 32-bit support...

Blender Experimenting With Vulkan Ray Queries

Phoronix - Mon, 10/13/2025 - 18:11
As part of Blender continuing to build out the Vulkan API capabilities for this open-source 3D modeling software, a proof of concept merge request was opened for beginning to make use of Vulkan ray queries...

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