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AMD Makes HIP Ray-Tracing Open-Source

Phoronix - Fri, 03/15/2024 - 02:29
AMD's HIP Ray-Tracing library "HIP RT" has been one of the few projects under the GPUOpen umbrella that starts off as closed-source software but then is eventually open-sourced... That happened now with the HIP ray-tracing code becoming publicly available...

Intel & AMD Enjoy SoundWire Updates With Linux 6.9

Phoronix - Fri, 03/15/2024 - 00:50
Linux sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai with SUSE has submitted all of the core sound updates and driver changes for the ongoing Linux 6.9 kernel merge window...

Intel Launches Core i9 14900KS, Clocking Up To 6.2GHz

Phoronix - Thu, 03/14/2024 - 23:00
Intel today is introducing the Core i9 14900KS as their newest "world's fastest desktop processor" with up to 6.2GHz clock frequencies...

Rust-Tailored Slint GUI Toolkit Adding Python API

Phoronix - Thu, 03/14/2024 - 20:45
Some Phoronix readers have been interested in Slint as a Rust-focused graphical toolkit that offers a royalty-free license and in addition to desktop ambitions has also been porting to Android. Slint 1.5 was released today and in addition to the Rust programming language support has begun offering a Python API...

openSUSE Tumbleweed Begins Rolling Out KDE Plasma 6 Desktop, But No Wayland Default Yet

Phoronix - Thu, 03/14/2024 - 20:30
The openSUSE Tumbleweed rolling release Linux distribution has begun rolling out the KDE Plasma 6.0.1, Gear 24.02 apps, and Frameworks 6.0 packages. Plasma 5 is being replaced within the Tumbleweed repository but openSUSE Tumbleweed isn't yet transitioning to the Wayland session by default...

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