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GStreamer 1.26 Released With Vulkan Improvements, H.266/VVC + LCEVC + JPEG-XS Support

Phoronix - Wed, 03/12/2025 - 08:19
GStreamer 1.26 is out today as the newest major feature release for this widely-used open-source multimedia framework...

Intel Overclocking Watchdog Driver Posted For The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Wed, 03/12/2025 - 02:10
An unexpected patch on the Linux kernel mailing list today by a Siemens engineer is implementing a driver for the Intel Over-Clocking Watchdog...

Nouveau On NVIDIA Turing GPUs & Newer Will Now Prefer NVK+Zink For OpenGL

Phoronix - Wed, 03/12/2025 - 00:40
As a sign of the times for both the NVK open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver within Mesa and the generic Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan code, with next quarter's Mesa 25.1 release when using a NVIDIA Turing GPU or newer with the Nouveau driver stack it will now default to using Zink atop NVK for OpenGL rather than the existing NVC0 Gallium3D driver...

CrossOver 25.0 Announced - Built Atop Wine 10.0 For Linux & macOS

Phoronix - Tue, 03/11/2025 - 23:19
CodeWeavers that continues to be the largest patron to the development of the open-source Wine software announced today CrossOver 25.0 as the newest version of their commercial downstream...

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