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LibreELEC 11 Beta 1 Released As Linux OS Built Around Kodi 20 - Adds HDR For Intel & AMD

Phoronix - Sun, 01/29/2023 - 19:24
Building off the release of the Kodi 20 HTPC/PVR software that released earlier this month, LibreELEC 11 Beta 1 is now available as a Linux distribution built around Kodi 20...

Valve Fixes RAGE 2 Breaking For Recent Mesa RADV Driver

Phoronix - Sun, 01/29/2023 - 19:19
For fans of the RAGE 2 first person shooter game as the sequel to id Software's Rage game from nearly a decade ago, the latest Mesa Git code has landed a fix courtesy of Valve's Linux graphics driver developers to correct the rendering...

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...

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