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Sway 1.9 Released - Using New wlroots Rendering API For Better Performance

Phoronix - Sat, 02/24/2024 - 22:08
Sway 1.9 has been released as the newest feature release of this i3-inspired Wayland compositor built atop the closely-aligned wlroots Wayland compositor library...

Git 2.44 Released - Can Yield Faster Pack Generation & Faster Rebases

Phoronix - Sat, 02/24/2024 - 19:59
Git maintainer Junio Hamano on Friday released Git 2.44 as the newest update to this leading open-source distributed revision control system...

XZ 5.6 Released: Sandboxing Improvements, Prefers -O2 Instead Of -O3

Phoronix - Sat, 02/24/2024 - 19:48
XZ Utils 5.6 was released today for this general purpose data compression library that also provides the common XZ command-line utilities for .xz format handling...

Intel Releases OSPRay Studio 1.0 As Its Awesome Interactive Visualization & Ray-Tracing App

Phoronix - Sat, 02/24/2024 - 19:39
Back in 2020 Intel announced OSPRay Studio as its new oneAPI app for ray-tracing and photorealistic rendering built atop its OSPRay ray-tracing engine. Since then we've continued to watch OSPRay Studio pickup new features, add GPU rendering support, and more. On Friday night the OSPRay Studio 1.0 release was finally christened...

KDE Plasma 6.0 Ready For Release Next Week, Plasma 6.1 Seeing Early Feature Work

Phoronix - Sat, 02/24/2024 - 19:23
It's hard to believe we are already just down to a few days left before the release of Plasma 6.0 next week alongside KDE Frameworks 6 and KDE Gear apps ported over to the Qt6 toolkit. KDE Plasma 6.0 is pretty much primed for release while already fixes are beginning for Plasma 6.0.1 as well as early feature work underway for Plasma 6.1...

Proton 9.0 Beta Makes More Games Playable Under Steam Play, Updates VKD3D-Proton & DXVK

Phoronix - Sat, 02/24/2024 - 08:24
In time for weekend Linux gamers, Valve and their CodeWeavers partners today rolled out their first public beta of Proton 9.0 as their Wine-based software that powers Steam Play for enjoying Windows games on Linux with ease under the Steam client...

Wine 9.3 Brings New HID Pointer Driver & Better Internet Proxy Support

Phoronix - Sat, 02/24/2024 - 08:02
Wine 9.3 is out this Friday as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for enjoying Windows games and apps on Linux...

Micron Engineer Sends Out Linux Patches For New FAMFS File-System

Phoronix - Sat, 02/24/2024 - 02:27
A request for comments patch series was posted today for FAMFS, a new special purpose file-system proposal out of Micron for dealing with Fabric-Attached Memory (FAM) devices such as will become more common within the Compute Express Link (CXL) server space...

Intel Extension For PyTorch Now Officially Supports Arc A-Series Graphics

Phoronix - Sat, 02/24/2024 - 01:52
Intel's latest release of their Intel Extension for PyTorch "IPEX" now officially supports their consumer Arc A-Series Graphics hardware across Linux, Windows, and also WSL2...

NVIDIA 550.54.14 Release Brings R550 Series Linux Driver To Stable

Phoronix - Sat, 02/24/2024 - 01:12
NVIDIA today released their 550.54.14 driver, which is their first production-ready/stable driver version in the R550 series...

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