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Mesa RADV Driver Adds Radeon Raytracing Analyzer Support

Phoronix - Sun, 09/04/2022 - 17:47
Mesa's Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" has added support for compatibility with GPUOpen's Radeon Raytracing Analyzer...

KDE's Kaidan Messaging App Adding Encrypted Audio/Video Calls

Phoronix - Sun, 09/04/2022 - 17:38
KDE's Kaidan app has been in development for a number of years now as a Jabber/XMPP chat client built around Kirigami and Qt Quick. Kaidan has been under active development and formally became a KDE project in 2019. It's newest ambition is now working out encrypted audio and video calls...

GravityMark 1.70 Released With VK_EXT_mesh_shader, Vulkan ReBAR Support

Phoronix - Sun, 09/04/2022 - 17:20
GravityMark 1.70 has been released as the multi-API graphics benchmark developed by Tellusim Technologies that was started by one of the former Unigine engine developers...

It's Past Time To Stop Using egrep & fgrep Commands, Per GNU grep 3.8

Phoronix - Sun, 09/04/2022 - 07:25
GNU Grep 3.8 was released today for this commonly-used command-line utility for search plain text data. With the GNU Grep 3.8 it's now made more clear that if you are still relying on the egrep and fgrep commands, it's past due for switching to just grep with the appropriate command-line arguments...

FWUPD Explores Improvement For Easier & More Robust Firmware Updating On Linux

Phoronix - Sat, 09/03/2022 - 17:51
Currently when it comes to shipping new/updated device support for firmware updating under Linux with FWUPD/LVFS, it requires making/adjusting a Fwupd plug-in for carrying out the actual firmware copying/updating of the device and then adding in the device VID/PID to a quirks table so Fwupd knows about what to match a given device to for the firmware plug-in to use. Even in new devices where no plug-in changes are required, new device entries are still needed in the quirks table and it makes it challenging when Linux distributions don't quickly move to new FWUPD releases. Moving forward a better solution is being explored...

KDE Plasma 5.26 Sees More Features & Fixes Ahead Of Beta

Phoronix - Sat, 09/03/2022 - 17:28
There is a lot of last minute feature work and improvements heading into Plasma 5.26 ahead of its upcoming beta and feature freeze...

Ubuntu Unity Becoming An Official Flavor With 22.10 Release

Phoronix - Sat, 09/03/2022 - 17:14
While it's been years since Canonical dropped Unity as the official desktop environment of Ubuntu, some within the open-source community have still been maintaining it and running an unofficial Ubuntu Unity flavor of the distribution. Now with next month's Ubuntu 22.10 release, Ubuntu Unity will be an official flavor/spin...

Chrome 106 Beta Adds Pop-Up API, SerialPort BYOB Reader Support

Phoronix - Sat, 09/03/2022 - 17:09
Following this week's release of Chrome 105, Google has promoted Chrome 106 to their beta channel...

PipeWire 0.3.57 Adds AAC Decoder, Opus For Bluetooth

Phoronix - Sat, 09/03/2022 - 17:05
PipeWire 0.3.57 was released on Friday as the newest update to this Linux audio/video streams management solution that aims to fill the functionality currently provided by the likes of JACK and PulseAudio...

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