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How to Install Android Apps via ADB - MUO - MakeUseOf

Google News - Mon, 01/30/2023 - 03:01

How to Install Android Apps via ADB MUO - MakeUseOf

New Distro 'blendOS' Combines Arch Linux, Fedora Linux and ... - Slashdot

Google News - Mon, 01/30/2023 - 02:47

New Distro 'blendOS' Combines Arch Linux, Fedora Linux and ... Slashdot

Budgie 10.7 Desktop Environment Adds Dual-GPU Support, New Power Dialog - 9to5Linux

Google News - Mon, 01/30/2023 - 00:37

Budgie 10.7 Desktop Environment Adds Dual-GPU Support, New Power Dialog 9to5Linux

Cairo Graphics Library Drops OpenGL Support After A Decade Of Inactivity

Phoronix - Sun, 01/29/2023 - 22:00

The Cairo graphics library that provides a vector graphics based API and in turn having a number of different back-ends for software/hardware acceleration, which in turn is used by a variety of different desktop applications, has removed its OpenGL support...

Coreboot 4.19 Released With AMD Mayan Motherboard, MSI Alder Lake Board

Phoronix - Sun, 01/29/2023 - 20:24

Coreboot 4.19 is now available as the latest tagged release for this prominent open-source project allowing various motherboards with their proprietary firmware/BIOS to be replaced by this free software solution...

RADV Graphics Pipeline Library Support Becoming Speedy, Aims For Mesa 23.1 Promotion

Phoronix - Sun, 01/29/2023 - 20:17

The Mesa Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver's implementation of the graphics pipeline library (VK_EXT_graphics_pipeline_library) is becoming much faster thanks to fast-linking and various pending fixes. In turn this will get games making use of the extension the ability to ideally have no shader pre-caching while still enjoying no in-game stuttering. Valve's Linux graphics driver developers working on RADV have been working through some issues with the RADV graphics pipeline library and for Mesa 23.1 looks like it could be in good shape...

Intel Meteor Lake CPUs Get Support For VPU “Versatile Processing Unit” Accelerator In Linux 6.3 - Wccftech

Google News - Sun, 01/29/2023 - 19:51

Intel Meteor Lake CPUs Get Support For VPU “Versatile Processing Unit” Accelerator In Linux 6.3 Wccftech

LibreELEC 11 Beta 1 Released As Linux OS Built Around Kodi 20 - Adds HDR For Intel & AMD

Phoronix - Sun, 01/29/2023 - 19:24

Building off the release of the Kodi 20 HTPC/PVR software that released earlier this month, LibreELEC 11 Beta 1 is now available as a Linux distribution built around Kodi 20...

LibreELEC 11 Beta 1 Released As Linux OS Built Around Kodi 20 ... - Phoronix

Google News - Sun, 01/29/2023 - 19:24

LibreELEC 11 Beta 1 Released As Linux OS Built Around Kodi 20 ... Phoronix

Valve Fixes RAGE 2 Breaking For Recent Mesa RADV Driver

Phoronix - Sun, 01/29/2023 - 19:19

For fans of the RAGE 2 first person shooter game as the sequel to id Software's Rage game from nearly a decade ago, the latest Mesa Git code has landed a fix courtesy of Valve's Linux graphics driver developers to correct the rendering...