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Wine 9.13 Released - Continues Rewriting The CMD.EXE Engine

Phoronix - Mon, 07/15/2024 - 12:00
Wine 9.13 was released on Sunday as off its usual bi-weekly Friday release regiment for this newest development build...

Linux 6.10 Released With New Panthor Graphics Driver, Radeon Display Support On RISC-V

Phoronix - Mon, 07/15/2024 - 06:58
As anticipated the Linux 6.10 kernel was released as stable a few minutes ago by Linus Torvalds...

Linux 6.11 Features To Include A Lot For Intel & AMD Systems, Extensible Scheduler

Phoronix - Mon, 07/15/2024 - 04:40
With Linux 6.10 expected to be released in the coming hours, in turn the Linux 6.11 merge window will open tomorrow unless there is any last-minute v6.10 release delay. With that said, here's a look at some of the features you can likely expect to see for this next kernel version...

CachyOS Rolls Out Zen 4 Optimized Repository For Maximizing Zen 4 & Zen 5 Performance

Phoronix - Sun, 07/14/2024 - 23:16
Arch Linux based CachyOS has released their "July 2024" release that also introduces an AMD Zen 4 optimized repository that caters to current Ryzen 7000/8000 and EPYC 4004/8004/9004 (Zen 4) procssors and upcoming Zen 5 processors...

Linux 6.11 To Allow Tightening Of /proc/[pid]/mem Access For Better Security

Phoronix - Sun, 07/14/2024 - 20:36
Linux engineer Christian Brauner at Microsoft sent out his various pull requests for areas of the kernel he oversees ahead of the Linux 6.11 merge window. One of the more interesting pull requests from Brauner this cycle are the "vfs procfs" updates that now allow restricting access to the /proc/[pid]/mem files of processes...

Fedora 42 Looks To Make Use Of The "Screen Of Death" DRM Panic Screen

Phoronix - Sun, 07/14/2024 - 18:37
While Fedora 41 isn't even out yet, early feature planning is already underway for Fedora 42 that will debut in the early months of 2025. One of the interesting proposals raised so far is for making use of the new DRM Panic screen functionality for a "Blue Screen of Death" of sorts for better presenting kernel error messages in case of kernel panics...

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