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      Wine 11.12 Released With Wayland Fractional Scaling & Other Wayland Enhancements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 June 2026

    Wine 11.12 fell off the bi-weekly release rhythm with not making it out last Friday, but it managed to ship today. Wine 11.12 brings fractional scaling support to its Wayland driver and various other enhancements...
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      Next Bcachefs Release Aims To Include Rust Code In The Kernel Module

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 June 2026

    The Bcachefs file-system already makes use of the Rust programming language in the user-space tools for this CoW file-system and they have been planning to make use of Rust within the kernel module too. Beginning in the next Bcachefs release, v1.38.7, they are looking at beginning to include Rust code now in their kernel driver...
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      Git 2.55 Released With Rust Support Enabled By Default,

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 June 2026

    Git 2.55 is out today as the latest stable update to this distributed version control system...
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      Linux 7.2 On Threadripper Shows Some Nice I/O Improvements & Faster Poll, Some Regressions

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 June 2026

    I have begun testing out Linux 7.2 on more hardware following the winding down of the merge window and culminating with yesterday's Linux 7.2-rc1 release. Today's tests are looking at how Linux 7.2 in its early development state is comparing to Linux 7.1 stable on AMD Ryzen Threadripper.
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      Microsoft Announces Public Preview For Linux Containers On WSL

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 June 2026

    Microsoft today shipped the first public preview of WSL Containers "WSLC" as their latest extension of the Windows Subsystem for Linux on Windows 11...
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      Red Hat ARM Engineer Abandons ARM64 Linux Personal Desktop, Goes Back To AMD Ryzen System

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 June 2026

    Red Hat senior software engineer Marcin Juszkiewicz of Red Hat's ARM Team had been dogfeeding with an AArch64 Linux desktop being used as his primary, personal system for nearly the past year. But now he shared he has gone back to using his AMD Ryzen desktop instead over AArch64 Linux issues encountered with his Ampere Altra desktop...
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      Infinity Scheduler Aims To Be A Better Linux Scheduler

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 June 2026

    The Infinity Scheduler is another attempt at improving the CPU scheduling behavior under Linux and created by the developer behind the existing "scx_flow" sched_ext scheduler. But Infinity Scheduler isn't taking the approach of using sched_ext and is rather patched into the Linux kernel in modifying CFS and RT behavior...
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      AMD Linux Patches Introduce New "Low Power" CPU Core Type

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 June 2026

    A new Linux kernel patch series posted to the kernel mailing list minutes ago is introducing a new "Low Power" CPU core type for AMD heterogeneous processors. The x86 topology code in the Linux kernel already supports the notion of Performance and Efficiency type cores while now a new "Low Power" core type is being introduced for AMD heterogeneous platforms...
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      ZLUDA v6 Gets PhysX Running Well On AMD GPUs But Loses Commercial Funding

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 June 2026

    ZLUDA as a reminder is the open-source project that began as drop-in CUDA support for Intel graphics hardware and then was quietly funded by AMD for years as a drop-in CUDA replacement on AMD GPUs that went open-source after losing funding. That was then taken down and since late 2024 ZLUDA then began focusing on multi-GPU CUDA focused on AI after beginning to receive funding from an unspecified party. Now, unfortunately, funding has once again been cut from that unnamed party but in turn ZLUDA is focusing on PhysX and better Windows support...