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Plasma 6.0 Development Continues, More Plasma Wayland Fixes Land

Phoronix - Sat, 06/17/2023 - 18:42
It may be the middle of summer but there are no signs of Plasma 6.0 development efforts slowing down at all with this being another interesting week for KDE development...

Python 3.13 Aiming For More Performance

Phoronix - Sat, 06/17/2023 - 17:59
Python 3.12 isn't even being released until October and Python 3.13 won't be out until H2'2024, but already the developers working on tuning CPython performance are aiming to make more enhancements this next development cycle...

Firefox 116 Should Have Experimental PipeWire Camera Support

Phoronix - Sat, 06/17/2023 - 03:58
Mozilla's Firefox 116 web-browser should have experimental PipeWire camera capturing support available for Linux users...

The Nasty Linux 6.3 Nouveau Driver Bug Appears To Have Been Figured Out

Phoronix - Sat, 06/17/2023 - 03:45
As a follow-up to the potentially nasty open-source NVIDIA "Nouveau" driver bug in Linux 6.3, the issue is believed to have been figured out and a patch is pending that appears to address the issue...

GNOME Wayland vs. X.Org Performance For Radeon & NVIDIA Gaming On Ubuntu 23.04

Phoronix - Fri, 06/16/2023 - 23:06
Similar to prior Wayland vs. X.Org desktop comparison impact on Linux gaming, here is a fresh round of tests looking at the (X)Wayland vs. X.Org GNOME session performance with Ubuntu 23.04 and the latest NVIDIA proprietary and AMD open-source graphics drivers on Linux.

Vulkan 1.3.254 Published With Another Extension Drafted By Valve

Phoronix - Fri, 06/16/2023 - 22:58
The Vulkan API v1.3.254 specification update was published today with just a few fixes/clarifications to the documentation but also two new extensions...

AMDVLK 2023.Q2.3 Released With RX 7600 Support, Counter-Strike 2 Optimizations

Phoronix - Fri, 06/16/2023 - 21:41
AMDVLK 2023.Q2.3 is out today as the newest snapshot of AMD's official open-source Vulkan driver...

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