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Firefox 122 Available With Official Debian Package, Many Web Improvements

Phoronix - Tue, 01/23/2024 - 13:00
Today marks the first Mozilla Firefox feature release of 2024 with quite a number of new features to showcase in the newly-published Firefox 122...

Valve Releases Proton 8.0-5 With Many Fixes, More Windows Games Now Playable

Phoronix - Tue, 01/23/2024 - 08:37
Valve has rolled out Proton 8.0-5 as the newest version of their Wine downstream for powering Steam Play to enjoy mass amounts of Windows games to run rather well on Linux...

Coreboot-Based Dasharo Firmware Updated For MSI Z690/Z790 Motherboards

Phoronix - Tue, 01/23/2024 - 05:50
For those wanting to use an open-source Coreboot-based firmware on your desktop with modern hardware, a rare and leading option is 3mdeb's Coreboot-based "Dasharo" firmware on select MSI Z690/Z790 motherboards...

Linux 6.8 Now Enables -Wstringop-overflow To Warn About Buffer Overflows

Phoronix - Tue, 01/23/2024 - 02:28
A change merged today for the Linux 6.8 kernel intentionally following yesterday's Linux 6.8-rc1 is a move to enable the "-Wstringop-overflow" compiler option by default...

NVIDIA RTX Remix 0.4 Released With Updated DXVK, Performance Improvements & Fixes

Phoronix - Mon, 01/22/2024 - 23:52
As part of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 series launch RTX Remix was announced for helping game modders remaster older game titles for RTX/ray-tracing. RTX Remix 0.1 debuted last April as the initial version of their software to provide path-tracing support for classic games. Out today is the latest work for helping to remaster classic games with the debut of RTX Remix 0.4...

FreeBSD Considers Making Use Of Rust Within Its Base System

Phoronix - Mon, 01/22/2024 - 23:05
FreeBSD developers are currently weighing the benefits and costs of allowing the Rust programming language to be used within the FreeBSD base system...

Fedora Linux 40 Looks To Replace iotop With iotop-c

Phoronix - Mon, 01/22/2024 - 21:45
Fedora Linux already ships an iotop-c package for this C alternative the the common iotop program for reporting I/O metrics under Linux, but with the upcoming Fedora 40 release it's looking at having iotop-c replace the original iotop...

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