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SDL_sound 2.0 Released As First Update In Nearly 14 Years

Phoronix - Sat, 03/26/2022 - 18:56
Longtime Linux game porter and SDL developer Ryan Gordon released SDL_sound 2.0 as the first release of this sound component to the Simple DirectMedia Library in nearly fourteen years...

The Switch Has Been Made From C89 To C11/GNU11 With Linux 5.18

Phoronix - Sat, 03/26/2022 - 18:05
As we approach the end of the first week of the Linux 5.18 merge window, another note worthy pull request to land is the switching of the C language standard from GNU89 (C89) to GNU11 (C11)...

Linux 5.18 Moves Ahead With Deprecating ReiserFS

Phoronix - Sat, 03/26/2022 - 17:30
Following the recent developer discussions around deprecating and removing the ReiserFS file-system from the mainline kernel, the in-development Linux 5.18 kernel is going ahead and deprecating it...

GCC Compiler Accepts China's MIPS-Derived LoongArch CPU Port

Phoronix - Sat, 03/26/2022 - 17:11
The GCC steering committee has signed off on the LoongArch compiler port and could still land for the GCC 12 stable compiler release in a few weeks...

Best Open Source Internet Radio Player for Linux

Tecmint - Sat, 03/26/2022 - 14:08
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Internet radio has become the norm in the age of the world wide web. We no longer need to finick around with a traditional radio player that is rather cumbersome to use. [ You

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Wine 7.5 Released With HLSL Compiler Support For Bundled VKD3D

Phoronix - Sat, 03/26/2022 - 06:04
Wine 7.5 is out as the latest bi-weekly software update for enjoying Windows games and applications under Linux, macOS, and other platforms...

"Dozen" Merged Into Mesa For Implementing Vulkan On Direct3D 12

Phoronix - Sat, 03/26/2022 - 01:20
Merged a few minutes ago into Mesa 22.1 is the "Dozen" project implementing Vulkan atop Direct3D 12 APIs...

AMD's GPUOpen Releases Vulkan Memory Allocator 3.0

Phoronix - Sat, 03/26/2022 - 01:10
AMD today released Vulkan Memory Allocator 3.0 under their GPUOpen umbrella as this library to better manage memory allocation and resources for this graphics API and make it more similar to APIs like OpenGL and Direct3D...

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