Wine 5.8 Released With GIF Encoder, More WineD3D Vulkan Progress
Wine 5.8 has been uncorked for the weekend as the newest bi-weekly development release for running Windows programs and games on Linux and other platforms...
Xrdesktop 0.14 Released With OpenXR Support
Xrdesktop, the Valve-funded Linux desktop support for VR headsets and making the likes of GNOME and KDE window managers VR-aware, is out with a new release...
LibreOffice On Windows Will Now Hard Require Clang For Performance Reasons
Last month we reported on LibreOffice now preferring its new rendering code be built with LLVM Clang over alternative compilers. When falling back to CPU-based software rasterization, the Clang-generated code performs much better than alternative compilers given Google's own emphasis with Skia on being Clang-focused. LibreOffice 7.0 is now beginning a hard requirement on Clang when building for Windows...
Con Kolivas Fixes Up GUI-Related Stalls In Mesa
Con Kolivas known for his longtime work on improving Linux desktop responsiveness with largely working on the kernel and the likes of MuQSS has now seen his first Mesa patch merged for fixing unexpected GUI-related stalls...
FreeRDP 2.1 Released Due To Multiple Security Issues
Last month marked the release of FreeRDP 2.0 for implementing the Microsoft Remote Assistant Protocol v2. FreeRDP 2.0 also brought RDP proxy support, font smoothing by default, Flatpak packaging support, better scaling for Wayland, and other improvements. Today now marks the release of FreeRDP 2.1...
Software Boosting Patches Volleyed For CPPC CPUFreq Driver (Boost / Turbo Frequency)
A new set of kernel patches out this morning are for implementing software boost support within the ACPI CPPC CPUFreq driver...
Oracle Working On "PKRAM" For Memory That Survives After Booting Into A New Kexec Kernel
Oracle's Anthony Yznaga has sent out a proposal for "PKRAM" as a new means of being able to preserve memory pages of the currently running kernel so that they can be restored after launching a new kernel via kexec...
Linux's Lima DRM Driver For Arm Mali Finally Seeing Run-Time Power Management
The Lima kernel driver providing reverse-engineered, open-source driver support for aging Arm Mali 4xx graphics processors is finally seeing run-time power management capabilities come Linux 5.8...
IBM Working On More Linux CPU Power Usage Optimizations For Latency-Sensitive Workloads
IBM engineers have been working on improvements to the Linux kernel's power savings while running latency-sensitive tasks but still delivering comparable performance. Their own numbers for a patched kernel are showing significant power saving benefits as much as ~20%...
PipeWire Gets A Session Manager With WirePlumber
PipeWire, the Red Hat backed solution for providing modern management of audio and video streams that supports a Wayland-minded environment and also sandboxed applications with Flatpak while fulfilling use-cases set by JACK and PulseAudio, has a new session manager option...