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New GIMP Plug-In Integrates Google Gemini AI Image Creation

Phoronix - Tue, 09/02/2025 - 18:44
Separate from yesterday's upstream new GIMP 3.2 development release, open-source developer Josh Ellithorpe announced the creation of a new GIMP plug-in dubbed "Dream Prompter" for bringing the power of Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash Image Preview model to this open-source photo/image editing software...

FFmpeg swscale Rewrite Begins Landing With 2.6x Faster Overall, As Much As 254x

Phoronix - Tue, 09/02/2025 - 18:27
Now that FFmpeg 8.0 has shipped for this widely-used multimedia library, development is back on of major feature work toward the next major release. Landing on Monday was the initial code for a major rewrite to the swscale code in providing a new framework that is faster and more maintainable/extensible moving forward...

Intel Power Slider Support For Panther Lake Set To Premier In Linux 6.18

Phoronix - Tue, 09/02/2025 - 18:14
Last month Intel posted new Linux patches for a "SoC power slider" feature premiering with upcoming Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" laptops. That SoC Power Slider support for the Intel int340x is now expected to be upstreamed with the Linux 6.18 kernel later this year...

Linux's Current & Future Rust Graphics Drivers Getting Their Own Development Tree

Phoronix - Tue, 09/02/2025 - 17:57
To help in accelerating the development of kernel graphics drivers and any other NPU/accelerator drivers written in the Rust programming language, the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem is creating its own DRM-Rust development tree for drivers and associated Rust infrastructure...

How to Install Zip and Unzip in Linux

Tecmint - Tue, 09/02/2025 - 12:31
The post How to Install Zip and Unzip in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Zip is a command-line utility tool used for compressing files and folders. Compression of files & folders enables faster and

The post How to Install Zip and Unzip in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Steam On Linux Use Recedes Slightly During August

Phoronix - Tue, 09/02/2025 - 08:16
For the Steam Survey results published last month for July it showed Steam on Linux use approaching 3%. With hitting 2.89% in July there was hope that perhaps in August it would breach the elusive 3.0% threshold not seen since the original days of Steam on Linux when the overall Steam user base was also much smaller than it is today. But that didn't pan out and Steam on Linux numbers for August are showing a small dip...

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