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Wine 5.21 Released As One Of The Smaller Updates

Phoronix - Sat, 11/07/2020 - 04:24
Wine 5.21 was just released as one of the smaller bi-weekly updates this year...

Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Hitting ~95% Speed Of Native OpenGL Driver Performance

Phoronix - Sat, 11/07/2020 - 03:26
Zink as the Mesa Gallium3D implementation putting OpenGL 3.x/4.x on top of the Vulkan API is now offering near-native performance...

GIMP 2.99.2 Released With GTK3 UI, Working Wayland Support, Other Big Changes

Phoronix - Sat, 11/07/2020 - 02:34
GIMP 2.99.2 is finally available as their "first step" towards releasing GIMP 3.0 that most notably transitions from the GTK2 to GTK3 toolkit...

VKD3D-Proton 2.0 Released With More Direct3D 12 Games Now Running On Vulkan

Phoronix - Sat, 11/07/2020 - 02:18
VKD3D-Proton as the Valve-backed fork of Wine's VKD3D for mapping the Direct3D 12 API atop Vulkan is now supporting more features with today's v2.0 release and thus handling more Windows games running on Linux with Steam Play...

Red Hat's "Stalld" Thread Stall Detector + Booster Sees New Updates

Phoronix - Fri, 11/06/2020 - 22:10
Back in August we reported on Red Hat engineers developing Stalld as a new Linux service for detecting stalled threads and also allowing select threads to be boosted based on policy. In the months since Stalld continues to be developed and recently saw new releases...

FlightGear 2020.3 Released For This Leading Open-Source Flight Simulator

Phoronix - Fri, 11/06/2020 - 19:55
FlightGear 2020.3 is out today as the newest feature update to this long-standing, open-source flight simulator software package...

Mesa Moves Closer To Having OpenCL 3.0 Support In Clover Gallium3D

Phoronix - Fri, 11/06/2020 - 19:35
It's not across the finish line at least yet but Mesa 20.3 just merged today the initial prep changes needed for exposing OpenCL 3.0 support within the Clover Gallium3D state tracker...

Intel "Big Joiner" Enabling Nearly Squared Away For Allowing 8K Output On A Single Port

Phoronix - Fri, 11/06/2020 - 19:12
For the past several months there have been a number of Intel Linux DRM patch series around "big joiner" support and that is looking like it may soon be finished up for allowing support for driving 8K displays off a single port...

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