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openSUSE Leap 15.6 Now Planned To Provide More Time For ALP

Phoronix - Tue, 06/06/2023 - 21:30
The soon-to-be-released openSUSE Leap 15.5 was going to be the last of the openSUSE Leap 15 series, but now openSUSE/SUSE has decided there will be an openSUSE Leap 15.6 release to allow additional time for their Adaptable Linux Platform (ALP) to be developed...

Spend to save? - The Register

Google News - Tue, 06/06/2023 - 21:23
Spend to save?  The Register

Dav1d 1.2.1 Released With More Performance Optimizations

Phoronix - Tue, 06/06/2023 - 20:54
Dav1d 1.2.1 was released and while the version number may not be significant, it does have some useful performance optimizations and other tuning for this CPU-based open-source AV1 video decoder...

More AMD Heterogeneous System Patches Queued Ahead Of Linux 6.5

Phoronix - Tue, 06/06/2023 - 18:36
A few new AMD heterogeneous system patches have been queued via TIP.git ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.5 kernel merge window. These newest AMD Linux patches are focused on proper heterogeneous system enumeration for AMD data center systems sporting the Instinct MI200 and newer accelerators...

Mesa's Lavapipe Adds Vulkan Task/Mesh Shader Support

Phoronix - Tue, 06/06/2023 - 18:15
David Airlie has managed to hack together task/mesh shader support inside Lavapipe, the CPU-based software Vulkan implementation inside Mesa...

Qt Getting In On Generative AI, Starts By Adding GitHub Copilot To Qt Creator

Phoronix - Tue, 06/06/2023 - 17:59
Given all the hype recently around generative AI, the Qt Group has begun exploring ways of incorporating generative AI into Qt...

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