Direct3D 8 Support "D8VK" Merged Into DXVK

Direct3D 8 support by way of the D8VK project has now been merged into DXVK, the widely relied upon open-source software for mapping Direct3D 9/10/11 atop Vulkan that is used by Valve's Steam Play (Proton) for enjoying Windows games on Linux...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Direct3D-8-D8VK-In-DXVK

GNU Debugger GDB 15.1 Brings Better Python Support

GDB 15.1 was released on Sunday as the first version in the GNU Debugger 15 branch for this widely-used, open-source debugging solution...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GDB-15.1-Released

GCC & LLVM/Clang Compilers Updated For Intel Branch Hint

Both the GCC and LLVM/Clang compilers today saw support for Intel's Branch Hint extension merged today for this feature of Redwood Cove P cores as found with current generation Meteor Lake processors as well as upcoming Intel Granite Rapids server processors...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-Clang-Intel-x86-Branch-Hint

Intel Continues Readying Linux For Lunar Lake's New Adaptive Sharpening Filter

Back in February I wrote about Intel's open-source graphics driver engineers working on a new adaptive sharpening filter capability to be found with upcoming Xe2 graphics starting with Lunar Lake. This new adaptive sharpening filter has minimal power and performance impact and at least according to the driver engineers is working out rather well. Besides th…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-DRM-Sharpening-Property

LXD 6.1 Released With Automatic Core Pinning Load Balancing, Fixes Hosts With 64+ CPU Cores

Canonical today released LXD 6.1 as the newest version of this Ubuntu-focused solution for managing virtual machines (VMs) and containers...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/LXD-6.1-Released