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Microsoft Has A Large Presence At This Year's X.Org Conference

Phoronix - Thu, 09/17/2020 - 14:30
Years ago if saying Microsoft would have multiple developers presenting at the annual X.Org Developers' Conference (XDC) as well as being a sponsor, you'd probably raise some laughs. But this year for XDC2020 Gdansk (albeit virtual due to COVID-19), Microsoft engineers gave not just one talk but three on the opening day...

Mesa 20.1.8 Released While Waiting For Mesa 20.2

Phoronix - Thu, 09/17/2020 - 12:55
Mesa 20.2 (or 20.2-RC5) didn't debut last week as intended, but for the interim the Mesa 20.1.x release cycle brought 20.1.8 on Wednesday and now it's been extended to having at least a ninth point release to allow more time until not only Mesa 20.2.0 to ship but Mesa 20.2.1 alignment...

GNOME 40 Aims To Have A Better Extensions Experience

Phoronix - Thu, 09/17/2020 - 12:00
Following Wednesday's release of GNOME 3.38 was the surprising news of GNOME 40 being the next version as well as a new initiative to improve GNOME extensions...

Ray-Tracing Support For AMDGPU LLVM Back-End Lands For RDNA 2

Phoronix - Thu, 09/17/2020 - 06:38
AMD previously confirmed it would be supporting real-time ray-tracing with their next-generation GPUs while now one month out from the Radeon RX 6000 series debut are the first signs of the open-source driver work around GPU ray-tracing...

Arm Is Now Backing Panfrost Gallium3D As Open-Source Mali Graphics Driver

Phoronix - Thu, 09/17/2020 - 05:05
Most information presented during the annual X.Org Developers' Conference doesn't tend to be very surprising or ushering in breaking news, but during today's XDC2020 it was subtly dropped that Arm Holdings appears to now be backing the open-source Panfrost Gallium3D driver...

Gamescope Continues Advancing As Wayland/Vulkan Compositor Backed By Valve

Phoronix - Thu, 09/17/2020 - 02:23
Valve developer Pierre-Loup Griffais just provided an update during XDC2020 on the Gamescope compositor work as an evolution of Valve's prior "steamcompmgr" X11 window manager used by SteamOS...

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