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Blender 4.1 Released With Faster Linux CPU Rendering & AMD RDNA3 APU Support

Phoronix - Wed, 03/27/2024 - 00:38
Blender 4.1 is officially out today as the newest version of this wildly popular, open-source and cross-platform 3D modeling software...

SDL Developers Weigh Reverting Wayland Over X11 For SDL 3.0

Phoronix - Tue, 03/26/2024 - 23:27
With the SDL library that's widely-used by cross-platform games with the current SDL 3.0 development code it prefers Wayland over X11, but a new pull request would temporarily revert that on the basis of the Wayland ecosystem still not being up to par...

Fedora 40 Beta Released With GNOME 46 & KDE Plasma 6.0 On Wayland Desktops

Phoronix - Tue, 03/26/2024 - 22:30
The beta release of Fedora 40 is now available for testing ahead of the planned official release next month...

Linux 6.9 Deprecates The EXT2 File-System Driver

Phoronix - Tue, 03/26/2024 - 21:20
While Linux 6.9 brings many great changes and new features / hardware support, on the deprecation side it's deprecating the classic EXT2 file-system driver...

AMDVLK 2024.Q1.3 Released With Fixes

Phoronix - Tue, 03/26/2024 - 20:57
AMD today released its third and last open-source Vulkan driver update of the quarter...

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