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Ogre 13 Open-Source Game Engine Released

Phoronix - Sun, 08/15/2021 - 02:21
Besides the very successful Godot game engine and the up and coming O3DE, Ogre continues progressing as another useful open-source game engine. Out this weekend is Ogre 13.0 as the project switches up its versioning scheme...

Reverse Engineering & Bring-Up Of Linux On The Apple Silicon M1 Continues

Phoronix - Sun, 08/15/2021 - 00:06
A new status report has been published by the developers of "Asahi Linux" that are continuing to work on providing Linux support for the Apple Silicon initially with the M1 SoC...

ASUS Laptop Platform Profile Support Under Review For Linux

Phoronix - Sat, 08/14/2021 - 21:39
One of the features that has come together nicely for Linux on laptops in recent months has been the platform profile support around the ACPI specification with support from multiple laptop vendors for allowing users to control their power/performance preference based on various system profile configurations. A patch is pending for newer ASUS laptops to enjoy this platform profile control under Linux...

Debian GNU/Hurd 2021 Released With Experimental Rump-Based Userland Disk Driver, Go Port

Phoronix - Sat, 08/14/2021 - 21:19
In addition to Debian GNU/Linux 11 set for release today, Debian GNU/Hurd 2021 has been released as the unofficial port of Debian to the GNU Hurd micro-kernel...

Debian 11 Is Releasing This Weekend With Many Improvements

Phoronix - Sat, 08/14/2021 - 18:27
Debian 11.0 "Bullseye" is due for release today and the Debian developers involved are indeed putting the final touches on this next major Debian GNU/Linux distribution release...

KDE Sees More Improvements To Plasma, Konsole, Breeze This Week

Phoronix - Sat, 08/14/2021 - 18:15
KDE developers had another busy summertime week with a variety of UI improvements and other polishing to this open-source desktop environment...

Ardour 6.9 Digital Audio Workstation Released

Phoronix - Sat, 08/14/2021 - 12:00
Ardour as one of the leading open-source digital audio workstation (DAW) solutions is out with another new release...

GeForce RTX 30 vs. AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series Vulkan Ray-Tracing On Linux

Phoronix - Sat, 08/14/2021 - 04:00
Given this week's launch of the Radeon RX 6600 XT and that also bringing the new Radeon Software for Linux 21.30 driver, I was curious to see how the Vulkan ray-tracing performance compares now against the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 series on Linux.

Wine 6.15 Released With More PE Conversion Work, More 32-bit To 64-bit Thunks

Phoronix - Sat, 08/14/2021 - 03:52
Wine 6.15 has been uncorked as the newest bi-weekly development release of this software that powers Steam Play and more for running Windows games/applications on Linux...

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