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      Wine 8.8 Released - Starts Working On ARM64EC Module Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 May, 2023

    Wine 8.8 is out as another bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for running Windows games and applications on Linux, Chrome OS, and other platforms...
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      Linux Developers Still Working To Retire Intel Itanium/IA-64 Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 May, 2023

    Back in February was a patch series proposed retiring the Intel Itanium (IA-64) architecture support from the Linux kernel. That removal has yet to take place in Linux Git but it's still being talked about and user-space developers are also eager as it would mean being able to clear out Itanium user-space code too...
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      Fwupd 1.8.15 Released With Support For Updating More Device Firmware Under Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 May, 2023

    LVFS/Fwupd lead developer Richard Hughes of Red Hat today released Fwupd 1.8.15 with fixes and allowing some additional devices to now enjoy firmware updating under Linux...
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      Intel oneAPI's Embree 4.1 Brings Its Ray-Tracing Library To 64-bit ARM

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 May, 2023

    One of the fascinating elements of Intel's oneAPI software effort is how open they have been not to just supporting GPUs from multiple vendors or AMD CPUs too, but cross-CPU architecture support. Many Intel oneAPI components end up working on 64-bit ARM (AArch64) and even IBM POWER. The latest Intel software package seeing 64-bit ARM Linux support is their Embree ray-tracing kernels...
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      KDE Plasma Wayland Session Sees More Fixes Ahead Of Plasma 6.0

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 May, 2023

    While the past week saw many KDE developers get together for a Plasma 6.0 development sprint in Bavaria, the development pace for code changes during this time period didn't lighten up. There still was a lot of code being committed for continuing to advance this open-source desktop environment...
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      DXVK 2.2 Released With D3D11On12 Support, Many Game Fixes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 May, 2023

    DXVK 2.2 is now available as a big update to this open-source software for mapping the Direct3D 9/10/11 APIs to Vulkan and the first major release since DXVK 2.1 shipped back in January...
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      NVIDIA RTX Remix 0.2 Released + Remix Runtime Bridge Open-Sourced

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 May, 2023

    Last month NVIDIA published RTX-Remix v0.1 for bringing path tracing to classic games. Out today is RTX-Remix v0.2 with more improvements to this tech plus they have now open-sourced the RTX Runtime Bridge as well...
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      LibreOffice 7.6 Alpha 1 Available For This Leading Open-Source Office Suite

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 May, 2023

    The LibreOffice 7.6 Alpha build is now available for testing this next major feature release for this open-source, cross-platform free software office suite...
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      Linux's SLAB Allocator Next On Deck For Deprecation & Removal

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 May, 2023

    With the in-development Linux 6.4 kernel the SLOB allocator is removed while next the plan is for the deprecation and eventual removal of the SLAB allocator...