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GTK4 To Bring Better & Faster macOS Support

Phoronix - Wed, 12/16/2020 - 02:40
On top of the many other improvements for the soon-to-be-released GTK4 toolkit, there is now better support for Apple's macOS...

There's Finally An Experimental Driver For Native Wayland Support Within Wine

Phoronix - Wed, 12/16/2020 - 01:20
Alexandros Frantzis has announced the creation of a Wayland driver for Wine. This driver allows Windows GDI/OpenGL applications to run on Wayland compositors without any use of X11/XWayland...

NVIDIA 460.27.04 Linux Beta Driver Has Ray-Tracing, Many Other Changes

Phoronix - Tue, 12/15/2020 - 22:37
Timed with the expanded Vulkan ray-tracing resources available today, NVIDIA has released their first Linux driver beta in the R460 series as the eventual successor to the current 455.xx series...

Vulkan SDK, Tooling, Samples & Developer Guide Updated For Ray-Tracing

Phoronix - Tue, 12/15/2020 - 22:00
Vulkan 1.2.162 was released at the end of November with the ratified Vulkan ray-tracing extension for multi-vendor use. The Khronos Group today is announcing the updated Vulkan SDK, tooling, code samples, and developer guide today with ray-tracing coverage included...

Firefox 84 Rolling Out With WebRender By Default Appearing For Some Linux Setups

Phoronix - Tue, 12/15/2020 - 19:29
For those making use of the Firefox web browser, Mozilla has an early Christmas present with today's release of Firefox 84. Most significant with Firefox 84 is for Linux users that WebRender is finally getting flipped on by default for select system configurations...

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