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sdl12-compat 1.2.66 Gets More Games/Software Working On This SDL2 Portability Layer

Phoronix - Fri, 09/15/2023 - 03:52
The sdl12-compat project is an interesting effort to allow for aging software and games targeting the SDL 1.2 APIs to work atop this compatibility layer so it in turn runs atop the SDL2 libraries. With the sdl12-compat 1.2.66 release more games and other software are now successfully working on this library...

Linux 6.6 Delivers Some Impressive Gains For AMD EPYC 9754 "Bergamo" Server Performance

Phoronix - Thu, 09/14/2023 - 21:33
From my early testing thus far of the Linux 6.6 kernel in its very early state, some of the most impressive gains are happening on AMD's high core count server processors, the EPYC 9754 "Bergamo" in particular is enjoying some stellar improvements for various server workloads on this forthcoming kernel.

Linux 6.7 To Make It Easier To Toggle Support For x86 32-bit Programs

Phoronix - Thu, 09/14/2023 - 20:14
The Linux kernel currently allows disabling support for 32-bit programs and 32-bit system calls at compile-time, but a new option expected to be introduced with Linux 6.7 this winter will provide a new "ia32_emulation" boot time option to allow unconditionally disabling support for 32-bit programs and system calls...

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