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Wayland Testing New Protocol Extension To Handle Session Locking

Phoronix - Sat, 01/29/2022 - 02:43
Wayland Protocols 1.25 was released today as the collection of testing and stable Wayland protocols. New to Wayland Protocols 1.25 is the session-lock-v1 protocol being experimental and responsible to handle session locking...

GStreamer 1.20 RC1 Released With Many Exciting Improvements

Phoronix - Sat, 01/29/2022 - 02:30
The first release candidate of GStreamer 1.20 is now available for testing of this widely-used, open-source multimedia framework...

Intel Preparing Resizable BAR Support For Their Arc Graphics On Linux

Phoronix - Fri, 01/28/2022 - 22:11
Ahead of the Intel Arc "Alchemist" graphics cards shipping this year, Intel's open-source developers have continued ironing out the Linux driver support. The most recent kernel patches are for getting their Resizable BAR "ReBAR" support in order...

Wasmer 2.2 Bringing Its WebAssembly "Singlepass" Compiler To AArch64

Phoronix - Fri, 01/28/2022 - 18:25
Wasmer 2.2-rc1 is out today as the WebAssembly run-tme to "run any code on any client" with its broad platform coverage and allowing numerous programming languages from Rust to PHP to C# being able to be compiled into WebAssembly and then running on any OS or embedded into other languages for execution...

JEDEC Publishes HBM3 Standard (JESD238)

Phoronix - Fri, 01/28/2022 - 17:51
JEDEC has published the JESD238 HBM3 standard as the next version for High Bandwidth Memory...

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