Intel Releases Cloud-Hypervisor 0.4 As Its Rust-Written VMM Built Off KVM
Friday marked not only the release of QEMU 4.2 for Linux virtualization but Intel's open-source crew developing the Cloud-Hypervisor as the Rustlang-based VMM built around Linux's KVM and VirtIO interfaces is out with a big feature release...
Wine 5.0-RC1 Released With Unicode 12.1 Support, Initial ActiveX Data Objects Library
As was expected, today marks the first release candidate of Wine 5.0 that ushers in the code freeze ahead of this annual stable update for running Windows programs and games on Linux and other platforms...
Fedora Deciding Whether CD/DVD Installation Issues Should Still Hold Up Releases
Fedora will continue producing ISO images of their distribution that can be installed to a DVD (or CD in the case of some lightweight spins) or more commonly these days copied to USB flash drives, but they are debating whether any CD/DVD optical media issues should still be considered blocker bugs in 2020 and beyond...
Proton 4.11-10 Adds Halo: Master Chief Collection Support, Integer Scaling, Other Game Improvements
Valve has released Proton 4.11-10 and with this update to their blend of Wine that powers Steam Play is support for Halo: The Master Chief Collection among other Windows game improvements...
GNOME 3.36 Bringing Better Multi-GPU Handling With Switcheroo-Control, NVIDIA Support
For a few years GNOME has supported a "launch on discrete GPU" option for applications within the Shell's menu while for GNOME 3.36 that support is being cleaned up and extended to also handle NVIDIA GPU configurations...
Benchmarking Mozilla's Firefox Performance Over The Past Two Years
With 2019 quickly drawing to an end, I figured it would be interesting to see how the performance of Mozilla Firefox has been trending over the longer term. So for this article today is a look at the Firefox 57 through Firefox 71 stable performance plus tests of Firefox 72 beta and Firefox 73 alpha all from the same system and using a variety of browser benchmarks.
Feral's Lead Vulkan Developer Leaves The Company For Sony
Last year one of Feral's top Linux developers left the company and now another top developer has sadly left the game porting firm...
Flatpak 1.5.2 Continues Work On Authentication Support In Push To Handling Paid Apps
Introduced last month was the Flatpak 1.5.1 development build that provided initial support for protected/authenticated downloads of Flatpaks as the fundamental infrastructure work towards allowing paid or donation-based applications within Flathub or other Flatpak-based "app stores" on Linux...
AMDVLK 2019.Q4.4 Released With Navi 14 Fixes, DoW 3 Perf Optimization
As anticipated, AMD has now formally released a new version of their AMDVLK open-source Vulkan driver following this week's Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Windows driver release...
QEMU 4.2 Released With Many Improvements For Linux Virtualization
QEMU 4.2 is out this morning as a key piece of the open-source Linux virtualization stack...