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GNOME 44 Released With Many Desktop Enhancements

Phoronix - Wed, 03/22/2023 - 23:01
GNOME 44 is now officially out as the latest half-year update to this widely-used open-source desktop...

KDE XWayland Video Bridge Aims To Improve Linux Desktop Screen Sharing

Phoronix - Wed, 03/22/2023 - 22:26
KDE developers David Edmundson and Alex Poi have begun working on XWaylandVideoBridge as a new project to help improve Linux desktop screen sharing for X11-based applications that may try to share the contents of Wayland screens, such as could be the case for some software like Discord, Microsoft Teams, Skype, and others...

Mozilla Announces Mozilla.ai For "Trustworthy AI"

Phoronix - Wed, 03/22/2023 - 21:54
Mozilla announced today they are investing $30 million USD to build Mozilla.ai as a new start-up focused on "building a trustworthy, independent, and open-source AI ecosystem."..

Canonical Preparing Updated Ubuntu Font For Ubuntu 23.04

Phoronix - Wed, 03/22/2023 - 20:08
Canonical is preparing to ship an updated set of Ubuntu Font files for the Ubuntu 23.04 "Lunar Lobster" release but is hoping to see more user testing ahead of the official release next month...

Linux 6.2 Kernel Begins Rolling Out For Ubuntu 23.04

Phoronix - Wed, 03/22/2023 - 19:37
Canonical has been preparing to ship a Linux 6.2 based kernel for Ubuntu 23.04 and now it's in the process of rolling out over the coming days...

AMD Adds Basic RPC Mechanism To LLVM libc For GPUs

Phoronix - Wed, 03/22/2023 - 18:19
AMD has upstreamed a basic RPC (remote procedure call) mechanism for GPU use to LLVM's libc and wired it up for AMDGPU use...

Intel, RADV & NVIDIA Jump On Supporting Vulkan's New VK_KHR_map_memory2

Phoronix - Wed, 03/22/2023 - 15:00
Introduced last week with the Vulkan 1.3.244 spec update was a new extension, VK_KHR_map_memory2, which is seeing fast support from the open-source Intel "ANV" and Mesa Radeon "RADV" drivers as well as NVIDIA's newest Vulkan driver beta...

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