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Open source digital painting with Krita

opensource.com - Sat, 12/11/2021 - 16:00

Digital painting is an art form all its own. It obviously emulates the discipline it's named for, but painting in the physical world and a digital environment is unique. Krita is a digital paint application that's seen use at major film production houses, book publishers, and art studios. It specializes in materials emulation, allowing the artist to adjust and fine-tune their tools through a brush engine so that they can achieve exactly the look and drawing feel they need.


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Godot 4.0 Alpha Is Near, Another Pre-Alpha Build Available

Phoronix - Sat, 12/11/2021 - 13:00
The highly anticipated Godot 4.0 game engine release continues moving closer and should soon see an official alpha release...

Wine 7.0-rc1 Released With Last Minute Changes

Phoronix - Sat, 12/11/2021 - 05:25
Following last week's Wine 6.23 development release, Wine 7.0-rc1 was just declared in marking the end of feature development and beginning preparations for issuing Wine 7.0.0 stable in January...

Radeon R300 Driver Lands NIR-To-TGSI Code, Old NVIDIA Driver Eyes It Too

Phoronix - Sat, 12/11/2021 - 03:48
The open-source Radeon Linux graphics driver work covered yesterday about a big optimization by leveraging NIR and going through that intermediate representation and relying on common NIR optimizations has now been merged into Mesa 22.0. This is a step-up from the existing open-source OpenGL driver support for old Radeon 9500 through Radeon X1000 series (R500) graphics processors. A similar conversion is also planned for the old Nouveau driver handling NVIDIA "NV30" era graphics processors too...

Wine's Wayland Driver Continues Maturing, Aims To Go Through Wine-Staging

Phoronix - Sat, 12/11/2021 - 02:47
While it won't make it for the upcoming Wine 7.0, the Wayland driver for natively supporting this X11 successor continues maturing and in the not too distant future will hopefully begin receiving more widespread testing via Wine-Staging...

Benchmarks: FreeBSD 13 vs. NetBSD 9.2 vs. OpenBSD 7 vs. DragonFlyBSD 6 vs. Linux

Phoronix - Fri, 12/10/2021 - 22:30
It's been a while since last having a hearty BSD benchmark comparison on Phoronix in part due to the latest hardware platforms generally lagging behind with how well supported they are by the various BSDs. But stemming from a Phoronix Premium supporter recently requesting some fresh BSD benchmarks, here is a look at how DragonFlyBSD 6.0.1, FreeBSD 13.0, NetBSD 9.2, and OpenBSD 7.0 are competing against various Linux distributions like CentOS, Clear Linux, and Ubuntu.

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