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Mesa's RADV Driver Lands Workaround For Flickering Issue With F1 2021

Phoronix - Sat, 01/01/2022 - 19:48
For those wanting to enjoy the F1 2021 racing game on Linux via Valve's Steam Play, it's slowly getting into good shape. The latest enhancement is on the Radeon Vulkan driver side with Mesa's RADV adding a workaround targeting the game...

Astounding Progress Made In Porting Wine To Haiku For Running Windows Software

Phoronix - Sat, 01/01/2022 - 19:14
Haiku as the open-source operating system in development for two decades as the inspirational successor to BeOS is kicking off 2022 by.... beginning to be able to run Windows applications via Wine. There is great progress being made in porting Wine to running on Haiku...

OpenBenchmarking.org In 2021 By The Numbers

Phoronix - Sat, 01/01/2022 - 19:00
Since we are all about performance and numbers, here is a look at the 2021 statistics for OpenBenchmarking.org itself as the online complementary component to the Phoronix Test Suite...

LABWC 0.4 Stacking Wayland Compositor Brings Fullscreen Mode, Drag & Drop

Phoronix - Sat, 01/01/2022 - 18:43
Early in 2021 there was the inaugural release of LABWC as a stacking Wayland compositor that promoted itself as an alternative to Openbox. In kicking off the new year, LABWC 0.4 is now available...

KDE Ends 2021 With More Plasma Wayland Fixes, Root File Operations For Dolphin

Phoronix - Sat, 01/01/2022 - 18:28
KDE developers ended out 2021 with more Wayland session fixes coming for the Plasma 5.24 release. There was also nice user feature work like KIO-using applications such as Dolphin now properly dealing with non-user-owned locations...

New year, new Opensource.com community manager

opensource.com - Sat, 01/01/2022 - 16:00

I am privileged to be here at Opensource.com as the new community manager. I'm looking forward to working with existing correspondents and contributors, and also bringing in new contributors and increasing the diversity of thoughts and ideas shared here on Opensource.com.

My open source journey

I moved through several lifetimes before coming into tech and all have shaped me into who I am as a contributor to open source. Here are some of the most impactful experiences of my life so far:


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Happy New Year & A Wrap On 2021

Phoronix - Sat, 01/01/2022 - 04:49
It's now another year in the books and in just six months and a few days will mark 18 years since starting Phoronix.com and 14 years of developing the public, open-source Phoronix Test Suite benchmarking software...

Intel To Ring In 2022 With New, Faster AV1 Encoder Release

Phoronix - Sat, 01/01/2022 - 03:00
Intel in cooperation with the Alliance for Open Media continues developing SVT-AV1 as the flagship CPU-based AV1 video encoder. With the next SVT-AV1 update there are performance optimizations as well as several new preset levels allowing for even greater performance. Here are some early benchmarks of that updated SVT-AV1.

Libadwaita 1.0 Released For Kicking Off A New Year Of GNOME App Development

Phoronix - Sat, 01/01/2022 - 01:49
GNOME's libadwaita 1.0 has been released for this library implementing the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) and complementary to the GTK toolkit...

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