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Blender Eyes Raising Its CPU Requirements

Phoronix - Fri, 12/09/2022 - 02:50
Hot off the release of Blender 3.4, Blender developers have begun discussing the possibility of raising their CPU requirements moving forward for making use of this open-source 3D modeling software...

Vulkan 1.3.237 Released With Two New Extensions

Phoronix - Thu, 12/08/2022 - 23:54
Ahead of the holidays there is a new Vulkan API spec update from The Khronos Group...

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX & RX 7900 XT Arrive For Linux Testing

Phoronix - Thu, 12/08/2022 - 22:00
At the start of November AMD announced the Radeon RX 7900 series while these high-end RDNA3 graphics cards will go on sale next week. Both the Radeon RX 7900 XT and RX 7900 XTX are at Phoronix for Linux testing with AMD's fully open-source graphics driver stack while today the embargo expires on showing off the hardware.

PHP 8.2 Released With Readonly Classes, Random Extension

Phoronix - Thu, 12/08/2022 - 20:09
PHP 8.2 is out today as the annual major feature release to this widely-used scripting language primarily for web purposes...

The Most Interesting New Features For Linux 6.1

Phoronix - Thu, 12/08/2022 - 19:43
With the Linux 6.1 kernel set to be released this weekend, here is a look back at the prominent changes to find with this kernel. Linux 6.1 besides being the last kernel version of the year is all the more important in that it's expected to be the new Long Term Support (LTS) kernel...

RADV Lands Dynamic Rasterization Samples & Line Rasterization Mode

Phoronix - Thu, 12/08/2022 - 18:40
Thanks to the work led by Valve engineers on the open-source Linux graphics stack, Mesa 23.0 continues picking up new features for the Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver...

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