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Wine 9.0 Released With Initial Wayland Driver, WoW64 Taking Shape & Better Direct3D

Phoronix - Wed, 01/17/2024 - 05:43
Wine 9.0 has debuted today for this annual stable release of Wine to allow Windows applications and games to run on Windows, Chrome OS, macOS, and other platforms. With Wine 9.0 it's the culmination of all the bi-weekly wine 8.x(x) development releases over the past year to greatly enhance the Windows app support on Linux and other targets...

GCC Rust Compiler "gccrs" Sees ~900 New Patches Upstreamed For GCC 14

Phoronix - Wed, 01/17/2024 - 03:08
Merged this afternoon to GCC Git ahead of the upcoming GCC 14.1 stable release is a big update to the GCC Rust "gccrs" compiler front-end...

Ubuntu Linux Working On Installer Support For NVMe-over-TCP

Phoronix - Wed, 01/17/2024 - 02:09
Ahead of the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS release that is all important for servers, Canonical engineers are working on extending their installer support to handle NVMe-over-TCP setups...

GFS2 File-System Enables Non-Blocking Lookups With Linux 6.8

Phoronix - Wed, 01/17/2024 - 01:58
The Global File-System 2 (GFS2) for Linux clusters continues to advance thanks to Red Hat and with Linux 6.8 there is now support for non-blocking lookups...

Intel Meteor Lake CPUs Will Be Able To Clock Higher On Linux 6.8

Phoronix - Tue, 01/16/2024 - 22:23
Following last week's Linux 6.8 power management updates, Linux PM/ACPI subsystem maintainer Rafael Wysocki of Intel sent out a secondary set of changes this morning. Most notable with this second round of power management material is allowing Intel Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" processors to clock higher with the P-State CPU frequency scaling driver...

New AMD & Intel Laptop/Platform Support In Linux 6.8

Phoronix - Tue, 01/16/2024 - 21:41
Merged last week for the Linux 6.8 kernel were the platform driver x86 updates, which include a lot of new AMD Ryzen and Intel Core platform support and new laptop functionality...

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