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Wine 5.3 Released With Various Improvements

Phoronix - Sat, 02/29/2020 - 04:05
Wine 5.3 is out as the latest bi-weekly development snapshot on the road to Wine 6.0 next year...

Jcat: A New Alternative To Microsoft Catalog Files

Phoronix - Sat, 02/29/2020 - 00:41
Prolific open-source developer Richard Hughes of Red Hat who has been responsible for the creation of PackageKit, the ColorHug colorimeter hardware, GNOME Software, and for the past number of years focused on the Fwupd firmware updating utility and Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) has a new open-source project...

NVIDIA 440.64 Driver Released With MX330/MX350 Support, Linux 5.6 Compatibility

Phoronix - Fri, 02/28/2020 - 23:49
NVIDIA has issued another stable Linux driver release in their long-term 440 series...

Unity 8 Desktop Renamed To Lomiri

Phoronix - Fri, 02/28/2020 - 21:45
The Unity 8 desktop environment that continues to be developed by the UBports open-source community for use on UBports' Ubuntu Touch and ultimately back on the Linux desktop as well have renamed the project...

Radeon ROCm 3.1 Released With RAS For Vega 7nm, SLURM Support

Phoronix - Fri, 02/28/2020 - 21:38
A new version of the Radeon Open Compute "ROCm" stack is available today but it still doesn't deliver on Navi support...

RADV Vulkan Driver Begins Wiring Up Support For Radeon's SQ Thread Trace Block

Phoronix - Fri, 02/28/2020 - 20:47
On top of the Mesa "RADV" Vulkan driver's recent support for using the Radeon GPU Profiler with this open-source driver, RADV is now adding support for the SQTT hardware block on Radeon GPUs for expanding the profiling metrics it is able to expose...

LLVMpipe Tessellation Shader Support Is Now Working - Runs Unigine Heaven

Phoronix - Fri, 02/28/2020 - 20:21
The LLVMpipe CPU-based software rasterizer OpenGL driver within Mesa's Gallium3D now has working tessellation shader support (ARB_tessellation_shader) and can even run Unigine Heaven demo properly, just don't expect good performance...

GNOME 3.36 Lands Scaled/Transformed Hardware Cursors Support

Phoronix - Fri, 02/28/2020 - 20:11
Landing just in time for GNOME 3.36 is a merge request that has been open for nearly one year on improving Mutter's hardware cursor handling...

Qt 5.15 Reaches Beta

Phoronix - Fri, 02/28/2020 - 19:41
The Qt Company has released their first beta of the forthcoming Qt 5.15 tool-kit...

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