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Zstd-Compressed Linux Firmware Back To Being Eyed

Phoronix - Sat, 01/29/2022 - 18:56
Back in summer 2020 was a proposal for Zstd-compressed Linux firmware so that the growing number of firmware binaries shipped by the linux-firmware tree could be Zstd-compressed to save disk space while being able to more quickly decompressed the data compared to other firmware compression options...

Wine-Staging 7.1 Adds Bindless Textures Patch To Fix Some Game Rendering Issues

Phoronix - Sat, 01/29/2022 - 18:41
Along with Wine 7.1 releasing on Friday, Wine-Staging 7.1 is also available as the more bleeding-edge version of Wine that carries more than five huundred extra patches atop the code-base...

KDE Plasma 5.24 Getting Ready For Release, More Wayland Fixes Merged

Phoronix - Sat, 01/29/2022 - 18:30
KDE developers have been very busy this month working up to the Plasma 5.24 LTS release in February. Plus with the 15 minute bug initiative underway and working to address remaining issues with the Plasma Wayland session, it's been a busy start of 2022...

Eclipse OpenJ9 0.30 Released For Latest JVM Alternative

Phoronix - Sat, 01/29/2022 - 18:24
In addition to this week bringing Oracle's GraalVM 22.0 release, Eclipse has released OpenJ9 0.30 as the latest version of their open-source Java Virtual Machine (JVM)...

Basis Universal 1.16 Released With OpenCL Support, Other Improvements

Phoronix - Sat, 01/29/2022 - 18:08
Version 1.16 of the Basis universal GPU texture codec developed by well known developer Rich Geldreich's Binomial LLC...

6 predictions for open source tech in 2022

opensource.com - Sat, 01/29/2022 - 16:00

Technology moves quickly and so do the people who create and use it. Here are some predictions for open source tech in 2022 from the Opensource.com community.


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Wine 7.1 Released With Vulkan 1.3 Support, Theming Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 01/29/2022 - 05:27
With Wine 7.0 having been released, the code freeze is over and we are now onto the Wine 7.x bi-weekly development releases that will then culminate with the Wine 8.0 stable release one year from now. In kicking off the new development series, Wine 7.1 is out today...

DXVK-NVAPI 0.5.2 Released With Entry Points For NVIDIA PhysX

Phoronix - Sat, 01/29/2022 - 04:15
DXVK-NVAPI as the open-source project implementing support for NVIDIA's NVAPI within the realm of DXVK is out with a new release, which is exciting for NVIDIA Linux gamers...

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...

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