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Wine 8.18 Released WIth Continued Work On Wayland Window Management

Phoronix - Sat, 10/14/2023 - 07:57
Wine 8.18 is out as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source program for running Windows applications and games on Linux. Wine 8.18 is another step closer to Wine 9.0 stable that is due out in early 2024...

OpenZFS 2.2 Released With Block Cloning, Linux Container Support & Better Performance

Phoronix - Sat, 10/14/2023 - 01:36
OpenZFS 2.2 was promoted to stable today as the latest major update to this open-source ZFS file-system implementation for Linux and FreeBSD systems. With OpenZFS 2.2 comes many exciting new features, performance improvements, and other enhancements for this evolution of open-source ZFS...

Linux Looks Toward Dropping Very Old WiFi Drivers

Phoronix - Sat, 10/14/2023 - 01:00
While the Linux kernel tends to keep around drivers for even very old hardware, once there are no known users left that would still be updating to new Linux kernel versions or the drivers pose a significant maintenance burden, it's eventually time to let them go. We've seen the WiMAX wireless code removed and now the latest on the Linux wireless networking side inching close to the chopping block are old WiFi drivers...

Intel Arc Graphics See Faster Performance On Ubuntu 23.10

Phoronix - Fri, 10/13/2023 - 22:57
For those using the stock kernel and Mesa drivers when running Ubuntu Linux, the upgrade from Ubuntu 23.04 to the newly-released Ubuntu 23.10 can mean some nice graphics performance improvements for Intel Arc Graphics users. Here is a look at some Arc Graphics A770 benchmarks on Ubuntu 23.04 to 23.10 plus the gains that are coming up when moving to Linux 6.6 and Mesa 23.3-devel.

Blender Alpha Builds Enable Experimental Vulkan Option

Phoronix - Fri, 10/13/2023 - 22:18
The newest Blender alpha builds of the past week have enabled Vulkan API support as an experimental option on Windows and Linux...

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