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GIMP Releases Last Development Version For GIMP 3.0

Phoronix - Thu, 02/22/2024 - 04:00
GIMP 2.99.18 was released today as the last planned development version prior in the long road to GIMP 3.0 that has been a decade in the making for this free software Adobe Photoshop alternative...

IBM Begins Work On Power11 Enablement For Upcoming Linux 6.9

Phoronix - Thu, 02/22/2024 - 03:08
The first "Power11" patches were queued today into the PowerPC's "next" Git branch ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.9 kernel cycle...

Intel QATlib 24.02 Brings Support For GEN 5 QAT Devices

Phoronix - Thu, 02/22/2024 - 01:48
Intel has released a new version of QATlib, their user-space support library for the QuickAssist Technology (QAT) via add-in hardware and recent Xeon Scalable processors...

Intel Mesa Driver Code Working To Split Off Old Broadwell "Gen8" Graphics Code

Phoronix - Thu, 02/22/2024 - 00:00
Intel's Iris Gallium3D driver for modern OpenGL support works on hardware going back to old Broadwell processors with "Gen8" integrated graphics as does the HasVK Vulkan driver for Haswell/Broadwell. But in allowing to focus on the common Skylake "Gen9" graphics and newer/future Intel graphics architectures, pending Mesa code is working to split-off that old Broadwell/Gen8 code. The Gen8 support will continue to be in-tree but separated from the rest of the compiler code so that the code can continue to be improved for newer Intel hardware without risking regressions/breaking those still on Broadwell era processors...

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