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Austrian Game Studio Now Sponsoring Krita Development

Phoronix - Wed, 12/06/2023 - 22:51
While Blender is at the forefront of receiving corporate sponsorships and funding for advancing that open-source 3D modeling software, other free software graphics programs haven't all received the same level of support. As good news for further raising the open-source creative/graphics ecosystem, an Austrian video game studio has become one of the new Krita sponsors...

More AMD GFX12 Additions Land In LLVM Git For RDNA4 GPUs

Phoronix - Wed, 12/06/2023 - 21:42
As noted in late November, AMD has begun enabling new "GFX12" hardware in LLVM for their AMDGPU LLVM shader compiler back-end. GFX12 is the target for next-generation RDNA4 graphics processors and that upstreaming effort has continued with more patches being upstreamed...

AlmaLinux's ELevate Begins Handling EPEL Repositories

Phoronix - Wed, 12/06/2023 - 19:46
AlmaLinux's ELevate software is a wonderful utility to help ease migration between existing major versions of RHEL derivatives. In particular, it's been very useful for moving past CentOS 7 and/or upgrading from AlmaLinux 8 to 9, along with the ability to even move to other RHEL derivatives...

SQLite Lands JSONB For Much Faster JSON Functions

Phoronix - Wed, 12/06/2023 - 19:32
SQLite as the leading open-source embedded database solution has landed JSONB, a rewrite of the SQLite JSON functions that can be up to "several times faster" than the existing JSON functions...

One Week Left To Vote On openSUSE's New Logo

Phoronix - Wed, 12/06/2023 - 19:06
The openSUSE project has been working on a rebranding to better differentiate between this community open-source project and SUSE itself. There's been work on a logo design contest with just under one week left to vote in this survey...

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