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      Linux 6.5 Features Expected: Parallel CPU Bring-Up, Intel Shadow Stack, MIDI 2.0 & More

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 June, 2023

    With Linux 6.4 expected for release today the Linux 6.5 merge window will then open. From my close monitoring of the many "-next" Git development branches along with some early pull requests already submitted, here is a look at some of the features that will likely be found in Linux 6.5 barring any last minute issues or objections from Linus Torvalds himself...
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      Zink's Mike Blumenkrantz Tackling Mesa WSI Inefficiencies

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 June, 2023

    Earlier this month I ran some fresh benchmarks of Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan against RadeonSI. While Zink in general is already quite speedy and in good shape for most workloads, those tests uncovered some troubled spots and Zink lead developer Mike Blumenkrantz of Valve has been diving into some of those issues with fixes. Another merge request is pending to deal with inefficiencies in the Mesa Vulkan windowing system integration (WSI) code...
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      Wine-Staging 8.11 Brings Performance Improvements, Registering URL Protocol Handlers

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 June, 2023

    Building off Friday's release of Wine 8.11, Wine-Staging 8.11 is out this Sunday morning with 502 patches atop the upstream Wine code...
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      Linux's Corsair PSU Driver Being Updated For Newer Power Supplies

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 June, 2023

    Added to the Linux kernel back in 2020 was a community-written Corsair power supply driver for exposing various sensor data that their higher-end PSUs make available via a USB interface. This reverse-engineered "corsair-psu" driver has continued to be improved upon and adding support for newer Corsair PSUs. A new patch out this weekend extends the corsair-psu driver for handling newer 2022~2023 model power supplies...
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      Linux 6.4 Bringing Great Improvements From AMD G.A.M. To Early Apple M2 Code, More Rust

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 June, 2023

    With it having been another smooth week so far in the upstream kernel world, it's looking like Linus Torvalds is likely to promote Linux 6.4 tomorrow rather than going ahead with an extra release candidate. As such, here's a reminder about what makes Linux 6.4 a great summer-time kernel upgrade...
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      Intel Arc Graphics Driver Change Leads To A Big Speed-Up Under Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 June, 2023

    With the latest Mesa 23.2 code as of Friday there is now a rather significant performance optimization for Intel's graphics driver stack that really helps out Intel Arc Graphics DG2/Alchemist along with upcoming Meteor Lake graphics. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, for example, was found to be 11% faster now with this single driver change and other Vulkan apps/games benefiting as well...
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      More Plasma 6 Work Continues, SDDM To Be Incubated By KDE

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 June, 2023

    The KDE Plasma 6 desktop is becoming more "livable" and each week new features continue to be implemented. This week was another lively phase of development toward Plasma 6.0...
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      GCC 14 Adds Initial "-std=c++26" Plumbing

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 June, 2023

    Similar to LLVM Clang 17 adding -std=c++26 support as the open-source compiler begins work on the next major revision of the C++ programming language, the GCC 14 compiler code has now also added the -std=c++26 compiler option...
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      Wine 8.11 Brings Various Improvements For Windows Apps On Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 June, 2023

    A new bi-weekly release of Wine is now available for enjoying Windows applications and games on Linux and other platforms...