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SysV Init 3.16 Released With Cleanups, Improved systemd Unit To SysV Script Conversion

For any holdouts still running SysV Init instead of systemd or other alternatives like OpenRC, SysV Init 3.16 is out as the first release in a half-year and bringing a few refinements...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/SysV-Init-3.16

D7VK 1.4 Released With More Improvements For Old Direct3D On Vulkan Under Linux

D7VK is the open-source project that began implementing the Direct3D 7 APIs atop Vulkan and with time the scope expanded to include Direct3D 6 support as well as Direct3D 5 support. Out today is D7VK 1.4 for continuing to enhance the support for these older D3D versions on Vulkan under Linux...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/D7VK-1.4-Released

Manjaro Linux 26.0 Rolling Out - Xfce Edition Recommended If Wanting To Use X11 Package updates for the Arch Linux powered Manjaro Linux distribution have been pushed out for Manjaro 26.0 "Anh-Linh" while updated ISOs are expected to soon become available. The Manjaro 26.0 milestone brings KDE Plasma 6.5 and GNOME 49 but with both of those you may lose X11 session support so they are recommending their Xfce Edition for wanting wanting to continue using an X.Org desktop … https://www.phoronix.com/news/Manjaro-Linux-26.0

Vulkan SER Showing Up To ~47% Performance Improvement For Ray-Tracing

Last week's Vulkan 1.4.333 brought a new ray-tracing extension with VK_EXT_ray_tracing_invocation_reorder that was derived from a prior NVIDIA vendor extension (VK_NV_ray_tracing_invocation_reorder). This new extension for Shader Execution Reordering "SER" is showing to deliver some nice performance potential for Vulkan ray-tracing performance...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-SER-Performance