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Wine 9.0-rc1 Released With Upgraded VKD3D, Wine Wayland Improvements

Fri, 08/12/2023 - 9:57pm
The release process has begun for releasing Wine 9.0 as stable early next year...

Vulkan 1.3.273 Released With KHR Calibrated Timestamps Extension

Fri, 08/12/2023 - 5:17pm
Vulkan 1.3.273 was released today as the latest weekly update to this high performance graphics and compute API...

Intel Striving To Overhaul Their Multiple Ethernet Linux Drivers: "The Great Code Dedup"

Fri, 08/12/2023 - 4:01pm
Intel engineers maintain multiple Ethernet drivers in the Linux kernel for their wide-range of networking hardware from consumer to high-end data center wares. There's been an ongoing effort to overhaul their Ethernet driver management to reduce code duplication between the different drivers for better code sharing and with an end goal of more unification...

Linux Dealing With x86 32-bit Software Security Issue For Intel TDX & AMD SEV

Fri, 08/12/2023 - 3:32pm
AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) and Intel Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) are intended to help provide better security for virtual machines and are key elements to both companies investments around confidential computing. It turns out they have a common enemy in their VM security goals: x86 32-bit software...

GNOME's Dynamic Triple Buffering "Ready To Merge"

Fri, 08/12/2023 - 1:50pm
It looks like GNOME 46 might finally see the dynamic triple buffering support merged for Mutter to enhance the performance particularly for systems with integrated graphics...

Canonical Releases Multipass 1.13 RC With Snapshots Support, Migrated To Qt6

Fri, 08/12/2023 - 11:45am
Canonical's Multipass software that is advertised as "cloud-style VMs at your fingertips" and making it easy to spin-up "Ubuntu VMs on demand for any workstation", is out with a new test release adding snapshots support and other new features...

PoCL 5.0-RC1 Released With Experimental OpenCL For Networked Systems

Fri, 08/12/2023 - 11:24am
PoCL 5.0-RC1 is out today as the newest feature release being brewed for this "Portable Computing Language" implementation that allows for OpenCL code to run on CPUs as well as running OpenCL code on other back-ends such as atop NVIDIA CUDA and AMD ROCm and other LLVM back-ends...

Wine Wayland Driver Lands Mouselook Support, Relative Cursor Motion

Fri, 08/12/2023 - 12:12am
Friday's release of Wine 8.22 is expected to be the last bi-weekly feature release before shifting focus to the code freeze and making Wine 9.0 ready for release in early 2024. It's coming down to the finish line how much more Wine Wayland driver functionality will be merged in time...