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Mozilla Firefox 116 Now Available - Capable Of Wayland-Only Builds

Phoronix - Tue, 08/01/2023 - 02:53
Ahead of the official announcement tomorrow, Mozilla Firefox 116 builds are available today for those wanting this latest open-source web browser...

Intel Prepares Linux Driver For Next-Gen VPU With Lunar Lake

Phoronix - Tue, 08/01/2023 - 01:28
With the upcoming Intel Meteor Lake processors is the introduction of the Versatile Processing Unit "VPU" IP block for computer vision and deep learning use-cases to provide better performance. Earlier this year with Linux 6.3 the iVPU driver was merged. Meteor Lake processors haven't even officially launched yet while already Intel's open-source engineers have begun enabling the next-gen VPU to be found with Lunar Lake processors...

Mesa 23.3 Adds EGL Explicit Device Support

Phoronix - Mon, 07/31/2023 - 22:23
One of the latest feature additions for next quarter's Mesa 23.3 release of these open-source user-space graphics driver components is adding support for the EGL explicit device extension...

Qualcomm Rolling Out "Iris" Video Encoder/Decoder Driver For Linux

Phoronix - Mon, 07/31/2023 - 21:43
Qualcomm engineers have begun rolling out a new open-source V4L2/media driver for a new Qualcomm "Iris" video accelerator hardware for video encode and decode on Qualcomm SoCs...

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