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Google News - Sat, 01/04/2025 - 21:21
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Rusticl OpenCL Driver Nearing Cross-Vendor Shared Virtual Memory Support

Phoronix - Sat, 01/04/2025 - 20:27
Red Hat engineer Karol Herbst who continues persevering with the Rusticl Rust-based OpenCL driver for Mesa has an exciting late Christmas present on the way... He's been hacking on Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) support for Rusticl that works across GPU vendor drivers/hardware...

GNOME Now Has Refine As An Alternative To GNOME Tweaks, Phosh 0.44 Released

Phoronix - Sat, 01/04/2025 - 19:36
There weren't too many changes this week for the GNOME project given the end of year holidays wrapping up and many taking time off. But This Week in GNOME is out with its newest issue to highlight the interesting desktop changes that did get made...

LLVM Had Another Exciting Year With More Than 37k Commits, 35.5 Million Lines

Phoronix - Sat, 01/04/2025 - 19:27
LLVM development has peaked in recent years at around 37k commits per year for this huge, innovative open-source compiler stack. It was another very exciting year for this leading open-source compiler stack...

KDE Starts 2025 With Accessibility Improvements & Better Graphics Tablet Controls

Phoronix - Sat, 01/04/2025 - 18:57
After a short break over the holidays, KDE developer Nate Graham is back with his "This Week in Plasma" series to highlight the interesting KDE Plasma desktop changes made each week...

Wine 10.0-rc4 Released With Another 13 Bugs Fixed

Phoronix - Sat, 01/04/2025 - 08:15
In gearing up for the Wine 10.0 stable release that is likely to take place later in January, Wine 10.0-rc4 is out today as the newest test release to deliver the latest bug fixes...

New Linux Patches Enhance AMD Radeon Video Encode/Decode For Older GPUs

Phoronix - Sat, 01/04/2025 - 02:36
Since Raven/Picasso APUs and Navi GPUs there is Video Core Next (VCN) as the modern unified video encode/decode block for Radeon graphics. But for those with older Radeon GPUs where there are the Unified Video Decode (UVD) and Video Coding Engine (VCE) blocks, a set of Mesa patches is looking to enhance the video acceleration support on Linux systems...

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