Wine Wayland Driver Updated With Basic Window Management Capabilities (www.phoronix.com)
Xfce's Wayland Roadmap Updated (www.phoronix.com)
Linux Mint Debian Edition 6 Reaches Beta (www.phoronix.com)
AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT & RX 7700 XT Linux Performance - Phoronix (www.phoronix.com)
Wine 8.14 Released Following Summer Holiday (www.phoronix.com)
Linux 6.5 Patches Merged For Intel GDS/DOWNFALL, AMD INCEPTION (www.phoronix.com)
This merge adds the kernel-side bits around mitigating AMD’s Speculative Return Address Stack (RAS) overflow vulnerability for Zen 3 and Zen 4. See this earlier article for details on this AMD INCEPTION disclosure....
Linux Kernel Mitigated For "Zenbleed" Vulnerability Affecting AMD Zen 2 CPUs (www.phoronix.com)
Asus at least has already released Bios updates as well.
Linux's DRM Panic "Screen of Death" Sees Patches For QR Code Error Messages (www.phoronix.com)
Ubuntu 24.10 Now Defaults To NVIDIA On Wayland (www.phoronix.com)
Blumenkrantz "Massively Improves" Mesa's glReadPixels Performance With 7 Lines Of Code (www.phoronix.com)
tl;dr Performance for Blazblue Centralfiction using Zink should be greatly improved once this MR is merged...
Fedora 41 Looks To Offer A KDE Plasma Mobile Spin - Phoronix (www.phoronix.com)
NVIDIA Exploring Ways To Better Support An Upstream Kernel Driver (www.phoronix.com)
Nvidia hope to include their open source kernel driver in the stock kernel in the future. This would mean no more need to make sure that Nvidia driver modules are in sync with the running kernel. And is hopefully a good sign for future open sourcing of the various parts of the driver as a whole.
"Honeykrisp" Is A New Vulkan Driver For Apple M1 On Linux - Derived From The NVK Driver (www.phoronix.com)
Moving forward the plan is to implement more features needed for DXVK and VKD3D-Proton. Eventually the hope is to get to the point of being able to enjoy nice Windows games on Apple Silicon using Wine / Steam Play and an x86 emulator.
AMD Ryzen 9000 Series Announced - Zen 5 Showing Big Generational Uplift (www.phoronix.com)
Wine 9.10 Released With Upgrade To VKD3D 1.12, Brings DPI Awareness Improvements (www.phoronix.com)
Intel's OpenVINO Now Available In openSUSE (www.phoronix.com)
systemd Rolling Out "run0" As sudo Alternative (www.phoronix.com)
KDE's KWin Merges Wayland Explicit Sync Support (Nvidia Stutter Fix) (www.phoronix.com)
KDE On The Importance Of Wayland Explicit Sync (www.phoronix.com)
Original blog: zamundaaa.github.io/wayland/…/explicit-sync.html
Flatpak 1.15.7 Will Now Automatically Remove Obsolete Driver Versions (www.phoronix.com)
Intel "Family 6" CPU Era Coming To An End Soon: Code Suggests Cooper Forest & Adams Lake (www.phoronix.com)
Intel Xe Developers Begin Looking At Cross-Device & Cross-Driver HMM (www.phoronix.com)
AMDVLK 2024.Q1.3 Released With Fixes (www.phoronix.com)
SDL Developers Weigh Reverting Wayland Over X11 For SDL 3.0 (www.phoronix.com)
