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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Linux 6.10 To Merge NTSYNC Driver For Emulating Windows NT Synchronization Primitives (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Going through my usual scanning of all the "-next" Git subsystem branches of new code set to be introduced for the next Linux kernel merge window, a very notable addition was just queued up... Linux 6.10 is set to merge the NTSYNC driver for emulating the Microsoft Windows NT synchronization primitives within the kernel for allowing better performance with Valve's Steam Play (Proton) and Wine of Windows games and other apps on Linux.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 7 months ago (2 children)

2024, the most memorable year of Linux gaming so far :-)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

why? i feel things are stabilizing and we are seeing incremental improvement instead of sweeping change now.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Oh no, all the projects are maturing and stabilizing? How boring, I don’t know how Linux gaming will survive

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

oh i didnt mean to imply this is bad, just that it isnt memorable.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Yeah, I'm team @[email protected] on this one. It's important but it's not revolutionary

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Nah mate, 2022 was when it started getting really good, GPL got rid of shader compilation stuttering (as well as dxvk-async related glitches), compatibility improved massively with improvements to both dxvk and vkd3d, and ray tracing finally started working