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Wine-Staging 11.11 Released With 289 Patches Atop Upstream

Phoronix - Sun, 06/14/2026 - 08:52
Following Friday's exciting release of Wine 11.11 with Wayland driver improvements, Wine-Staging 11.11 is now available for this experimental/testing derivative that continues carrying nearly 300 patches atop the upstream codebase...

Intel Ending Development Of BigDL: An Open-Source AI/LLM Effort Getting Axed

Phoronix - Sat, 06/13/2026 - 22:38
Among Intel's ongoing reduction in open-source projects they maintain, their BigDL open-source project focused on running large language models across Intel XPUs from Core Ultra laptops to discrete GPUs to cloud / data center hardware all in a low-latency manner, is being ended...

Fedora 45 Considering A Lightened GRUB Bootloader For Confidential Compute

Phoronix - Sat, 06/13/2026 - 20:22
Among the changes being considered for the in-development Fedora 45 is a lightened version of the GRUB UEFI bootloader that would focus on being a minimal implementation suitable for confidential computing...

Intel Thermald 2.5.12 Released... With Initial Support For ARM

Phoronix - Sat, 06/13/2026 - 18:47
Released on Friday was the newest version of Intel Thermald, the thermal daemon developed by Intel for their processors on Linux for monitoring and helping control temperatures across modern Intel-powered laptops and desktops. Catching me immediately by surprise was Intel Thermald 2.5.12 introducing support for ARM...

GCC 17 Merges Function Multi-Versioning For APX & AVX10.2

Phoronix - Sat, 06/13/2026 - 18:20
Earlier this month I wrote about Intel working on function multi-versioning support for APX and AVX10.2 with the GCC compiler. This allows developers to write optimized code paths specifically targeting Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) or Advanced Vector Extensions 10.2 capabilities of future processors while being able to otherwise fall-back to generic or other optimized code paths for other ISA target features. This work is now merged for GCC 17...

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