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Wine 9.8 Fixes Nearly 20 Year Old Bug For Installing Microsoft Office 97

Phoronix - Sat, 05/04/2024 - 08:51
Wine 9.8 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for enjoying Windows games/applications on Linux / Chrome OS, macOS, and other platforms...

GCC's Rust Compiler To See Improvements With GSoC 2024

Phoronix - Sat, 05/04/2024 - 02:20
Google Summer of Code 2024 (GSoC '24) accepted projects have been announced with the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) seeing seven student developers engaging this summer with several of them focused on enhancing GCC's Rust front-end...

FreeBSD Working On Improving Its Audio Stack & Creating Graphical OS Installer

Phoronix - Fri, 05/03/2024 - 22:20
The FreeBSD project has published its Q1'2024 status report to outline various advancements over the past few months...

FEX 2405 Gets Close To Running Far Cry On ARM Linux Systems

Phoronix - Fri, 05/03/2024 - 19:45
FEX as the open-source project to run x86/x86_64 binaries on AArch64 Linux systems is out with its newest monthly release. With FEX 2405, they are close to having the game Far Cry (2004) running on ARM Linux devices...

Mold 2.31 Now ~10% Faster When Linking Very Large, Debug Info Enabled Binaries

Phoronix - Fri, 05/03/2024 - 19:27
Rui Ueyama announced the release of Mold 2.31 today as the newest version of this high speed linker alternative to LLVM LLD and GNU Gold...

Fwupd 1.9.19 Supports New Docks, Incorporates More Fixes

Phoronix - Fri, 05/03/2024 - 19:19
LVFS/Fwupd lead developer Richard Hughes has released Fwupd 1.9.19 as the newest update to this open-source firmware updating solution for Linux systems...

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