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KDE Plasma 6 Seeing Many Bug Fixes -- Including For The Plasma Wayland Session

Phoronix - Sat, 09/23/2023 - 18:24
With Plasma 6.0 aiming for an early February release, more of the KDE developer attention is turning to bug fixing...

VKD3D 1.9 Released With HLSL Compiler Improvements, Ability To Inspect DXBC Blobs

Phoronix - Sat, 09/23/2023 - 07:57
While VKD3D-Proton continues to be the downstream used by Valve's Steam Play (Proton) and receiving a bulk of the Windows D3D12 gaming optimizations, Wine's upstream VKD3D project continues to evolve for mapping the Direct3D 12 API atop Vulkan. Released on Thursday was VKD3D 1.9 as the newest feature update...

AMDVLK 2023.Q3.2 Released With Quadbuffer Stereo, Quake 2 RTX Optimizations

Phoronix - Fri, 09/22/2023 - 18:44
AMD used to release new AMDVLK Vulkan driver updates on a near weekly basis for Linux users but that has slowed down for a while. We are approaching the end of Q3 and now AMDVLK 2023.Q3.2 has been published as their first new open-source driver release since early August...

Valve Is A Wonderful Upstream Contributor To Linux & The Open-Source Community

Phoronix - Fri, 09/22/2023 - 18:18
This shouldn't come as any surprise to any longtime Phoronix readers and dedicated open-source/Linux enthusiasts, but Valve with their work on the Steam Deck and SteamOS have been lifting the open-source ecosystem as a whole. A talk this week at the Linux Foundation Europe's Open-Source Summit highlighted some of the great and ongoing contributions by Valve and their partners...

Compute Runtime 23.30.26918.9 Released For Intel's Open-Source GPU Compute Stack

Phoronix - Fri, 09/22/2023 - 18:07
Intel engineers have published their Compoute Runtime 23.30.26918.9 that provides their open-source Level Zero and OpenCL support for use on Windows and Linux platforms with Intel integrated/discrete graphics hardware...

Ubuntu 23.10 Beta Released - Powered By Linux 6.5, GNOME 45 & Other Updates

Phoronix - Fri, 09/22/2023 - 17:54
The beta images of the Ubuntu 23.10 "Mantic Minotaur" release are now available for testing ahead of the planned official release in October...

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