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Ubuntu 23.10 Won't Be Shipping A GIMP 3.0 Snapshot

Phoronix - Thu, 08/24/2023 - 06:33
With Ubuntu 23.10 shipping next month one of the changes expected on the desktop side was using a GIMP 3.0 snapshot for this open-source Adobe Photoshop alternative rather than sticking to the aging GIMP 2.10 series. But now it's been determined that this will not happen and GIMP 2.10 will continue to be used...

Intel Brings Up Lunar Lake Display Support For Linux

Phoronix - Thu, 08/24/2023 - 03:15
In addition to AMD sending out DCN 3.5 display patches for that next-gen display IP block presumably for their upcoming Ryzen 8000 series APUs, Intel's open-source engineers today sent out the patches enabling Lunar Lake display support for their i915 kernel driver while there is also support baking for their in-development Xe kernel driver...

AMD Sends Out Patches Enabling New "DCN 3.5" GPU Display Block

Phoronix - Thu, 08/24/2023 - 01:13
Last week AMD sent out initial patches for enabling the "GFX 11.5" graphics IP under Linux for this presumed RDNA3 refresh that is likely for their next-gen Ryzen 8000 series APUs. Today AMD open-source Linux driver engineers sent out DCN 3.5 patches as an updated version of their Display Core Next IP...

Fedora Workstation 39 Planning To Drop Custom Qt Theming

Phoronix - Thu, 08/24/2023 - 00:55
Fedora Workstation has long maintained the QGnomePlatform and Adwaita-qt projects for applying a GNOME/GTK-like interface and styling to Qt applications in order to enhance the experience. However, to reduce the maintenance burden and the ongoing technical debt, Fedora Workstation 39 is planning to eliminate the custom Qt theming and just rely on Qt upstream...

Mir 2.15 Released With Cleaning Up Some APIs, Improved Alt+Tab

Phoronix - Wed, 08/23/2023 - 22:55
Mir 2.15 is out today as the newest version of this Ubuntu-focused Wayland compositor developed by Canonical that makes it easy for building out Wayland-based shells...

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