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KDE Plasma 6.6 Beta Released With Plasma Login Manager, Plasma Setup

Phoronix - 10 hours 17 min ago
The KDE Plasma 6.6 beta release is available today for helping to test this next iteration of the Plasma 6 desktop...

Intel's Fantastic New Open-Source Demonstrator For AMX-BF16: Over 4x The Performance At 69% The Power

Phoronix - 10 hours 35 min ago
When it comes to software leveraging Intel Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) functionality in modern Xeon processors, it's largely been limited to AI applications/libraries like oneDNN, OpenVINO, DeepRec, etc. But Intel now has another great open-source real-world AMX demonstrator with their Open Image Denoise library. This open-source library providing high quality denoising filters for images rendered using ray-tracing can end up benefiting big time from AMX-FP16 (AMX-COMPLEX) found with the newest Xeon 6 "Granite Rapids" processors. I ran some benchmarks of their new Open Image Denoise library with AMX-FP16 and was honestly blown away by the results.

Wine 11.0 Released With Many Improvements For Windows Games & Apps On Linux

Phoronix - 10 hours 45 min ago
As expected, Wine 11.0 stable was officially released today. This is a big step forward for this open-source software to run Windows games and applications on Linux and other platforms. Wine also serves as the basis for Valve's Steam Play (Proton) that has been critical to the recent successes of Linux gaming...

Debian Libre Live 13.3 Images Released For Avoiding Non-Free Firmware

Phoronix - Tue, 01/13/2026 - 23:00
Building off this past weekend's Debian 13.3 release is now Debian Libre Live 13.3 images for this derivative that ships the install/live media without any of the non-free firmware assets to remain a free software blessed image...

FFmpeg Merges A Number Of Vulkan Improvements To Start 2026

Phoronix - Tue, 01/13/2026 - 21:15
FFmpeg developer Lynne has landed a number of Vulkan-related imporvements to this widely-used open-source multimedia library. Over the past year FFmpeg saw Vulkan shader-based decoding for more video formats, AV1 and VP9 extension work, performance improvements, and other work around Vulkan Video. It will be very exciting to see how FFmpeg delivers in 2026 with Vulkan Video and how the software ecosystem as a whole begins taking up this cross-platform, open industry standard for video encode/decode...

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