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LavaLauncher 1.6 Released As A Simple Dock/Launcher For Wayland

Phoronix - Tue, 02/18/2020 - 02:39
If you have been looking for a simple dock/launcher that natively supports Wayland, LavaLauncher 1.6 is available as one such solution...

D-Bus Broker 22 Released With Option To Use Newer Kernel Features

Phoronix - Mon, 02/17/2020 - 23:53
With BUS1 not looking like it will come to fruition anytime soon as an in-kernel IPC mechanism and the kernel module for it not being touched since last March, the same developers continue pushing ahead with Dbus-Broker as the user-space implementation focused on D-Bus compatibility while being higher performing and more reliable than D-Bus itself...

Arm's ASTC Encoder Replaces Its Restrictive EULA With Apache 2.0 License

Phoronix - Mon, 02/17/2020 - 21:00
Arm has been developing the ASTC encoder as the texture compressor for Adaptive Scalable Texture Compression (ASTC) as open-source but until last week was carrying a restrictive license...

RADV Vulkan Driver Makes A Few More Improvements For GCN 1.0/1.1 Hardware

Phoronix - Mon, 02/17/2020 - 20:22
Valve open-source driver developer Samuel Pitoiset has contributed some improvements to Mesa 20.1's Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver benefiting GCN 1.0/1.1 graphics cards...

GCC 8.4 + GCC 9.3 Compilers Coming Soon

Phoronix - Mon, 02/17/2020 - 20:04
While GCC 10 will be releasing in the next month or two as the annual feature update to the GNU Compiler Collection, GCC 8.4 is expected for release soon along with GCC 9.3...

Linux 5.7 Staging Will Be ~28.7k Lines Of Code Lighter Thanks To Nuking WUSB + UWB

Phoronix - Mon, 02/17/2020 - 19:49
With the Linux 5.7 kernel cycle in two months there is some "spring cleaning" within the staging area that is leading to almost twenty-nine thousand lines of code being removed thanks to removing a deprecated feature...

Lima Gallium3D Driver Picks Up Multi-Submit Optimization In Mesa 20.1

Phoronix - Mon, 02/17/2020 - 19:32
It's been a while since last having any news to report on Mesa's Lima Gallium3D driver for old Mali 400/450 series hardware, but an important optimization was merged today...

Create web user interfaces with Qt WebAssembly instead of JavaScript

opensource.com - Mon, 02/17/2020 - 16:03

When I first heard about WebAssembly and the possibility of creating web user interfaces with Qt, just like I would in ordinary C++, I decided to take a deeper look at the technology.


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