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GNOME's Dynamic Triple Buffering "Ready To Merge"

Phoronix - Fri, 12/08/2023 - 21:50
It looks like GNOME 46 might finally see the dynamic triple buffering support merged for Mutter to enhance the performance particularly for systems with integrated graphics...

Canonical Releases Multipass 1.13 RC With Snapshots Support, Migrated To Qt6

Phoronix - Fri, 12/08/2023 - 19:45
Canonical's Multipass software that is advertised as "cloud-style VMs at your fingertips" and making it easy to spin-up "Ubuntu VMs on demand for any workstation", is out with a new test release adding snapshots support and other new features...

PoCL 5.0-RC1 Released With Experimental OpenCL For Networked Systems

Phoronix - Fri, 12/08/2023 - 19:24
PoCL 5.0-RC1 is out today as the newest feature release being brewed for this "Portable Computing Language" implementation that allows for OpenCL code to run on CPUs as well as running OpenCL code on other back-ends such as atop NVIDIA CUDA and AMD ROCm and other LLVM back-ends...

Wine Wayland Driver Lands Mouselook Support, Relative Cursor Motion

Phoronix - Fri, 12/08/2023 - 08:12
Friday's release of Wine 8.22 is expected to be the last bi-weekly feature release before shifting focus to the code freeze and making Wine 9.0 ready for release in early 2024. It's coming down to the finish line how much more Wine Wayland driver functionality will be merged in time...

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