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MPV Player 0.35.1 Released With Wayland & PipeWire Fixes

Phoronix - Sun, 01/29/2023 - 01:29
MPV 0.35.1 is out this weekend as the latest update to this open-source media player developed as a fork originally from MPlayer/mplayer2...

Patches Updated For Hooking eBPF Programs Into The Linux Kernel Scheduler

Phoronix - Sat, 01/28/2023 - 23:24
Published back in November were a set of patches for allowing (e)BPF to extend the Linux kernel's scheduler. That interesting work is continuing with Friday having brought a second revision to the patches...

AMD Sends In More RDNA3 Graphics Driver Fixes For Linux 6.3

Phoronix - Sat, 01/28/2023 - 20:30
Along with Intel's DRM-Next material shifting to more bug fixing, AMD's AMDGPU/AMDKFD Direct Rendering Manager driver changes this week have shifted over to delivering more graphics driver fixes...

LibreOffice Removes Support For Some Old Targets: AIX, 32-bit s390 & More

Phoronix - Sat, 01/28/2023 - 19:23
With LibreOffice 7.5 due out next week and that code already having been branched, in the LibreOffice mainline code this week they have dropped support for some old targets...

KDE Sees Many Plasma Wayland Fixes This Week - Plus Spectacle Screen Recording

Phoronix - Sat, 01/28/2023 - 18:45
With Plasma 5.27 set to be the last Plasma 5 feature release in the series, KDE developers have been very busy trying to ensure that this desktop update will ship with minimal issues. There's been a ton of bug fixing to land this past week for Plasma 5.27, especially when it comes to the Plasma Wayland support...

LLVM 16.0-rc1 Brings New AMD & Intel CPU Support, Zstd Debug Sections, C++17 By Default

Phoronix - Sat, 01/28/2023 - 18:29
Following the LLVM 16.0 feature freeze and code branching earlier this week, LLVM 16.0.0-rc1 is now available as the first of at least three planned release candidates...

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