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Wine-Staging 8.18 Brings Patch For An 8 Year Old Bug Report

Phoronix - Sun, 10/15/2023 - 18:42
Released on Friday was Wine 8.18 as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software to run Windows games and applications on Linux and other platforms. Now available is Wine-Staging 8.18 as the more experimental blend of Wine that integrates just shy of 500 extra patches atop Wine...

Mesa Merges Initial OpenGL/Vulkan Support For Raspberry Pi 5's GPU

Phoronix - Sun, 10/15/2023 - 05:17
Merged to Mesa 23.3 this weekend is initial support in the V3D Gallium3D (OpenGL) and V3DV Vulkan drivers for the Broadcom VideoCore 7.1.x graphics IP that is found within the new Raspberry Pi 5 single board computer...

Intel Vulkan Driver Lands ASTC LDR Emulation For Latest GPUs

Phoronix - Sat, 10/14/2023 - 23:18
Similar to the Radeon RADV driver recently implementing software-based decoding for Adaptive Scalable Texture Compression (ASTC), the Intel "ANV" Vulkan driver within Mesa has also now wired up ASTC LDR emulation...

AMD Releases ROCm 5.7.1 With rocBLAS-GEMM-Tune & Bug Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 10/14/2023 - 20:37
AMD on Friday released ROCm 5.7.1 as their latest tagged release to this open-source GPU compute stack that continues progressing to better take on NVIDIA CUDA and Intel oneAPI...

Mesa 23.3 Lands Support For Rusticl On Zink To Have OpenCL Atop Vulkan Drivers

Phoronix - Sat, 10/14/2023 - 20:22
Merged for this quarter's Mesa 23.3 release is the ability to have the Rusticl Rust-written OpenCL driver running atop Zink, the Gallium3D driver known for OpenGL-on-Vulkan. With Rusticl on Zink this now means getting this OpenCL 3.0 driver working atop Vulkan hardware drivers...

FreeBSD 14 Nears Release With Support For Up To 1024 CPU Cores, Updated Drivers

Phoronix - Sat, 10/14/2023 - 18:44
The release candidate is out this weekend for FreeBSD 14.0 as the developers work toward releasing FreeBSD 14 stable in early November...

KDE Plasma 6 Has New Role For "F10", Kate/KWrite Text-To-Speech & Smooth Scrolling

Phoronix - Sat, 10/14/2023 - 18:34
It was another exciting week in the KDE Plasma 6 and KDE Frameworks 6 space with a number of notable new features being merged...

PXN V900 Racing Wheel Support Added To Linux 6.6

Phoronix - Sat, 10/14/2023 - 18:19
The PXN V900 gaming racing wheel is supported now by the mainline Linux kernel as of last night with the latest merged changes for the v6.6 kernel...

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