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Open-Source Radeon Driver Enables Support For Vulkan Video H.264/H.265 Encode

Phoronix - Thu, 04/11/2024 - 18:51
The open-source Radeon Vulkan driver within Mesa, RADV, has merged its support for handling Vulkan Video accelerated encoding for H.264 and H.265...

Wayland 1.23 Planned For Release Around The End Of May

Phoronix - Thu, 04/11/2024 - 18:36
Wayland 1.22 released at the start of April 2023 while now Wayland 1.23 is taking shape as the next version of this core Wayland code...

Bcachefs Sees More Fixes For Linux 6.9-rc4, Reiterates Its Experimental Nature

Phoronix - Thu, 04/11/2024 - 18:23
Last week Bcachefs' repair code was largely completed and in good shape for merging with the Linux 6.9-rc3 kernel. Bcachefs patches last week amounted to about one third of the kernel changes for the week. This week is a new round of fixes to further stabilize the experimental file-system...

Lutris 0.5.17 Game Manager Brings Bug Fixes, Library Syncing & New Runners

Phoronix - Thu, 04/11/2024 - 08:21
A new release of Lutris is now available, the open-source game manager that's popular with Linux gamers and enthusiasts for managing games from Steam, GOG, a number of retro game consoles and emulators, and other sources from one convenient UI...

KDE's KWin Merges Wayland Explicit Sync Support

Phoronix - Thu, 04/11/2024 - 04:48
A day after explicit sync support was merged for XWayland, a week after explicit sync support for Mesa Vulkan drivers hit Mesa 24.1, and GNOME's Mutter enabling explicit sync at the end of March, KDE's KWin compositor has now merged its Wayland explicit sync support!..

Lavapipe CPU-Based Vulkan Driver Implements Ray-Tracing Pipelines

Phoronix - Thu, 04/11/2024 - 02:56
Mesa's Lavapipe driver as a software (CPU-based) implementation of the Vulkan API has now implemented support for ray-tracing pipelines...

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