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System76 Launches Nebula PC Cases For DIY Builds

Phoronix - Thu, 06/29/2023 - 22:45
For those that have been fans of System76's Thelio desktop computer cases but prefer building your own systems, System76 today officially launched their "Nebula" line of PC cases...

GIMP 3.0 Release Candidates Hoped For This Year

Phoronix - Thu, 06/29/2023 - 22:30
There's been hopes of seeing the GIMP 3.0 release in 2023 or at least release candidates. GIMP developers recently finished a week-long meet-up and it's looking like they may be on track for at least beginning the GIMP 3.0 release candidate phase this year. GIMP 3.0 has remained quite elusive and in the works for the past decade as the much anticipated port to GTK3 and a host of other enhancements to this open-source alternative to Adobe Photoshop...

Qualcomm Adreno 700 Series GPU Support Published For Open-Source Linux Driver

Phoronix - Thu, 06/29/2023 - 21:53
Linaro engineers have been working out support for the latest-generation Qualcomm Adreno 700 series graphics processors found in the newest Snapdragon SoCs. Published on Wednesday were the initial MSM DRM kernel driver patches for bringing up the A700 series open-source graphics support...

AMD ROCm 5.6 Released With A Focus On Improving AI

Phoronix - Thu, 06/29/2023 - 18:36
It was just one month ago that ROCm 5.5.1 debuted while overnight AMD has promoted ROCm 5.6 to stable with more improvements and a particular focus on enhancing the AI capabilities for Radeon GPUs and Instinct accelerators. The ROCm 5.6 release also arrives just two weeks after AMD CEO Lisa Su re-affirmed their support for ROCm and working with the community to further enhance it...

Many Intel & AMD Graphics Driver Updates For Linux 6.5: Intel VRR, More MTL, RDNA3 Overclocking

Phoronix - Thu, 06/29/2023 - 18:25
DRM subsystem maintainer David Airlie of Red Hat has sent out the big batch of feature updates to this collection of open-source graphics/display drivers for Linux 6.5...

OpenCV 4.8 Released With TensorFlow Lite Model Support, AVIF Image Handling

Phoronix - Thu, 06/29/2023 - 18:07
OpenCV 4.8 was released yesterday as the newest feature update to this leading open-source computer vision (CV) library...

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