Arch Linux Moving To WoW64 Wine & Wine-Staging The Arch Linux project announced this week they are working to transition their Wine and Wine-Staging packages over to pure WoW64 builds. This "Windows on Windows 64-bit" allows for 32-bit Windows applications on 64-bit Linux platforms without needing 32-bit software libraries/prefixes present and overall a big architectural win...

Arch Linux Moving To WoW64 Wine & Wine-Staging - Phoronix

The Arch Linux project announced this week they are working to transition their Wine and Wine-Staging packages over to pure WoW64 builds

Mesa's Rusticl Driver Now Supports sRGB Images Mesa's Rusticl OpenCL driver has supported various elements of 2D image handling while the latest addition in enhancing this open-source driver's support is for sRGB images...

Mesa's Rusticl Driver Now Supports sRGB Images - Phoronix

Mesa's Rusticl OpenCL driver has supported various elements of 2D image handling while the latest addition in enhancing this open-source drive...

X.Org Server 21.1.17 & XWayland 24.1.7 Fix The Latest Batch Of Security Issues The X.Org Server 21.1.17 and XWayland 24.1.7 point releases were issued today to fix the latest batch of security issues...

X.Org Server 21.1.17 & XWayland 24.1.7 Fix The Latest Batch Of Security Issues - Phoronix

The X.Org Server 21.1.17 and XWayland 24.1.7 point releases were issued today to fix the latest batch of security issues.

NVIDIA 575.64 Linux Driver Released With A Few Fixes NVIDIA today released a new version of their R575 series stable Linux driver to provide a few additional fixes for customers...

NVIDIA 575.64 Linux Driver Released With A Few Fixes - Phoronix

NVIDIA today released a new version of their R575 series stable Linux driver to provide a few additional fixes for customers.

KDE Plasma 6.4 Desktop Released With Many Fantastic Improvements KDE Plasma 6.4 is out today with many fantastic improvements for this open-source desktop...

KDE Plasma 6.4 Desktop Released With Many Fantastic Improvements - Phoronix

KDE Plasma 6.4 is out today with many fantastic improvements for this open-source desktop.

Intel THC Linux Driver Ready To Support Wake-on-Touch "WoT" Merged for Linux 6.14 at the beginning of the year were the Intel THC drivers for supporting the Touch Host Controller IP found in modern Intel Core Ultra laptops for dealing with the touchpad, touchscreen, and related touch-control functionality. This open-source driver is still being built-out ahead of next-generation Core Ultra laptops hitting the market...

Intel THC Linux Driver Ready To Support Wake-on-Touch "WoT" - Phoronix

Merged for Linux 6.14 at the beginning of the year were the Intel THC drivers for supporting the Touch Host Controller IP found in modern Intel Cor...

Dbus-Broker 37 Released For High Performance & Reliable D-Bus The Dbus-Broker project from the BUS1/systemd developers is out with its first update in more than one year for this D-Bus implementation that aims to be more reliable and higher performing than D-Bus itself...

Dbus-Broker 37 Released For High Performance & Reliable D-Bus - Phoronix

The Dbus-Broker project from the BUS1/systemd developers is out with its first update in more than one year for this D-Bus implementation that aims...

Intel Mesa Drivers Now Properly Report Battlemage BMG-G31 GPUs Posted by Intel engineers a few days ago were a Mesa patch to begin recognizing some Intel Battlemage graphics cards as being the larger "BMG G31" variant. This evening those patches were merged for Mesa 25.2 for what's rumored to be potentially the Arc B770 graphics cards to launch later in the year...

Intel Mesa Drivers Now Properly Report Battlemage BMG-G31 GPUs - Phoronix

Posted by Intel engineers a few days ago were a Mesa patch to begin recognizing some Intel Battlemage graphics cards as being the larger 'BMG ...

Rust Surveying Developers To Find Biggest Compiler Performance Issues Rust developers acknowledge lengthy compiler times can be a significant issue that limits the productivity of developers working with this programming language. For helping in determining different combinations of issues around compiler performance, the Rust team has started a survey to collect more information on the issues...

Rust Surveying Developers To Find Biggest Compiler Performance Issues - Phoronix

Rust developers acknowledge lengthy compiler times can be a significant issue that limits the productivity of developers working with this programm...

Linux 6.17 Looks Like It Could Go Ahead And Make SMP Support Unconditional Back in May a big patch series was published for reworking the Linux kernel to make the SMP support unconditional. Right now those that happen to be running Linux in a uniprocessor (1 CPU core) configuration can build with "CONFIG_SMP" disabled but the proposed patches would make symmetric multi-processing support always present. Those patches took a step forward…

Linux 6.17 Looks Like It Could Go Ahead And Make SMP Support Unconditional - Phoronix

Back in May a big patch series was published for reworking the Linux kernel to make the SMP support unconditional