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XDG Top-Level Drag Protocol Approved For Wayland

Phoronix - Wed, 01/31/2024 - 05:39
Merged today to Wayland-Protocols is xdg-toplevel-drag, the protocol that's been under discussion for the past nine months for handling applications that request a window is moved at the same time as a drag operation...

Wine On Wayland This Year Aims For OpenGL Support, Window Minimization

Phoronix - Wed, 01/31/2024 - 04:03
While there is the initial Wine Wayland driver found in the recently minted Wine 9.0 stable release, the driver isn't yet complete for offering a native Wayland experience for Windows games and applications running on Linux...

AMD Releases HIP RT 2.2 With Multi-Level Instancing

Phoronix - Wed, 01/31/2024 - 02:33
AMD's GPUOpen crew today released HIP RT 2.2 as the newest version of this ray-tracing library for HIP...

Ubuntu Touch OTA-4 Released With Per-Contact Ringtones, Built-In Theme Switching

Phoronix - Wed, 01/31/2024 - 00:50
For fans of the Ubuntu Touch platform maintained by UBports for enjoying Linux on tablets and smartphones is out with their 4th Over The Air update based on the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS base...

Ubuntu Generic vs. Low-Latency Linux Kernel Benchmarks For HPC & Desktop

Phoronix - Tue, 01/30/2024 - 22:35
With Ubuntu looking at applying their low-latency optimizations to their generic kernel builds in order to eliminate maintaining their existing "lowlatency" kernel option, I decided to run some fresh benchmarks looking at the performance impact of their low-latency kernel against their "generic" default kernel used on Ubuntu Linux systems...

GNOME Project Handbook Launches To Help New Contributors

Phoronix - Tue, 01/30/2024 - 21:48
The GNOME project has announced the GNOME Project Handbook as a new resource for helping new developers/contributors get involved with this open-source desktop environment...

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