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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...

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