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Wine-Staging 8.16 Fixes A 16 Year Old Bug For Games Crashing

Phoronix - Sun, 09/17/2023 - 18:12
Building off Friday's release of Wine 8.16 is now Wine-Staging 8.16 for this experimental blend of Wine that offers up nearly 500 additional testing/in-development patches...

NBCON Console Patches Updated For Eventually Unblocking Real-Time Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Sun, 09/17/2023 - 17:49
The threaded / atomic console support for the Linux kernel is the last main blocker before the real-time "RT" patches can finally be mainlined...

AMD Linux Gaming Performance Largely Unchanged With Linux 6.6 Git

Phoronix - Sun, 09/17/2023 - 01:28
With the AMD performance uplift on the Linux 6.6 kernel due to the EEVDF scheduler code, the workqueue enhancements for chiplet-based processor designs, and other improvements, many Phoronix readers have speculated over AMD Linux gaming performance improvements with this in-development kernel...

LWJGL 3.3.3 Released With Updated Bindings, GraalVM Native Image Support

Phoronix - Sun, 09/17/2023 - 00:30
Version 3.3.3 of the Lightweight Java Game Library (LWJGL) is now available for this Java library that makes it easy to utilize native APIs from OpenGL and Vulkan to OpenCL compute and other OS APIs within Java's confines. LWJGL is used for Java games and can also be used with other Java software looking for rich API support particularly around GPU integration...

Linux 6.5 Now Powering Ubuntu 23.10

Phoronix - Sat, 09/16/2023 - 21:03
Just as anticipated, the Linux 6.5 kernel has landed in the Ubuntu 23.10 Mantic archive as the default kernel powering this next Ubuntu distribution release due out in October...

AMD Releases ROCm 5.7 GPU Compute Stack

Phoronix - Sat, 09/16/2023 - 18:38
ROCm 5.7 was released on Friday with the introduction of a new "hipTensor" library, the ROCgdb debugger being extended with Fortran and OMPD support, and new optimizations to the rocRAND and MIVisionX libraries. AMD has also announced end-of-support for the AMD Instinct MI50 accelerator while not yet formally announcing any new RDNA3 GPU support...

KDE Plasma 6.0 Lands More Performance Optimizations, Better Wayland Gaming Experience

Phoronix - Sat, 09/16/2023 - 18:15
KDE developers continue adding new functionality and performance optimizations for the Plasma 6.0 desktop that is aiming for its release in early February...

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