To be fair, there are probably a shit ton of undiscovered vulns for Power9.

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They should release the code so that others who are willing and able to do the maintenance can do so. lol

Proton/Wine/Eon == Gaming on Windows on Linux

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Super Tux Kart is one of the better works proving that free and open games do not have to look like home made amateur projects.

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Complexity is an enemy of security.

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That is all very good, how is this being funded if at all? Or is this the result of a bunch of positive energy from a team riding out a lockdown?

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Quoting: ajgpOnly problem with that is any Open Source CPU would have to be of an architecture other than x86 / X86_64 as these are locked by Intel & AMD respectively and Intel is fairly adamant on no-one else ever getting an X86 license (the only other would be VIA).

So any open source CPU would most likely be ARM based, that leaves you in the whole what will be compiled to run on it scenario. A powerful CPU that wont run applications that people use daily will never gain traction.

Two things:

1. x86 extensions tend to fall out of patent after 20 years, so a chip designer could theoretically build and sell high performance x86 chips so long as their instruction set matches Intel/AMD cross-licensed instructions up to the year 2000. There would be a lot of missing decode and multi media extensions but it would be doable in theory.

2. The whole problem can be side stepped by rejecting the use of software in which the user is reliant on a proprietor to compile the software. With freely licensed code, software can generally be built and run for any architecture. Proprietary software is the life blood of predatory vendor lock in.

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Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoThis is why we need another player in the x86 CPU market: Nvidia

My day to day hasn't changed much since switching to PowerPC. x86 is fully locked down with licensing constraints and so any x86 instructions newer than 20 years require any aspiring x86 vendors-to-be to bow down to Intel (and by extension, to Hollywood and friends).

Oh and also that detail about a master CPU embedded in all x86 chips which has full access and control over the end user-controllable portion. I would urge everyone here to at least consider keeping a RISC-V, PPC or any other freer architecture box around, for freedom's sake.

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While it is nice that they are building a specialty, out-of-box nvidia solution, they also shouldn't have to. If only nvidia would just follow established standards.

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Quoting: CyrilNot to mention the reason behind all of that... a newer version of DirectX, really?

That is the entire purpose of the existence of DirectX, to tax development against any other platform. The strategy is working brilliantly as evidenced by Psyonix's decision and countless other games, studios and projects which have fallen for the bait over the decades.

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...of the active total and when "viable workarounds exist" with Wine being mentioned.

"Wine is not harmful to Linux gaming"

"Wine is not harmful to Linux gaming"

"Wine is not harmful to Linux gaming"

"Wine is not harmful to Linux gaming"

"Wine is not harmful to Linux gaming"

"Wine is not harmful to Linux gaming"

"Wine is not harmful to Linux gaming"

Have we learned our lesson yet?

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