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Phoronix.com Transition To New Server Complete

Phoronix - Sat, 07/04/2020 - 23:03
If you are seeing this message, you are successfully browsing Phoronix.com from its new server...

Wine-Staging 5.12 Comes In Much Lighter With Many Patches Upstreamed

Phoronix - Sat, 07/04/2020 - 20:51
Wine-Staging at one point was traditionally 800+ testing/experimental patches on top of the upstream Wine code-base, even as recently as March when it was 850+ patches. Thanks to more work being upstreamed, last month it hit just over 700 patches and now with today's release of Wine-Staging 5.12 it represents a delta of just 665 patches...

KDE Starts July With More Fixes, More QML'ing In The System Settings Area

Phoronix - Sat, 07/04/2020 - 18:18
KDE developers remain very active with improving this open-source desktop environment even amid the coronavirus pandemic...

Vulkan 1.2.146 Released With DirectFB Support, Extended Fragment Density Map

Phoronix - Sat, 07/04/2020 - 18:04
The Khronos Group is celebrating the US Independence Day with the release of a new Vulkan spec...

Mircade Still Being Worked On As A Confined Mir + Snap Based Launcher

Phoronix - Sat, 07/04/2020 - 15:16
Back in early 2017 "Mircade" was introduced as an arcade-style game launcher on Ubuntu powered by Mir. We hadn't heard much of Mircade since 2017 but the effort is still alive for this Mir-based launcher that can trigger various apps to run under Wayland/Mir...

Firefox 80 To Support VA-API Acceleration On X11

Phoronix - Sat, 07/04/2020 - 12:00
While recent Firefox releases have seen VA-API video acceleration working when running natively under Wayland, the Firefox 80 release later this summer will bring VA-API support by default to those running on a conventional X.Org Server...

Wine 5.12 Brings WebSocket API Support, Better RawInput Handling

Phoronix - Sat, 07/04/2020 - 03:53
Wine 5.12 is out for the US Holiday weekend testing...

Server Infrastructure Upgrade Weekend - AMD EPYC Rome Across The Board

Phoronix - Sat, 07/04/2020 - 01:30
There may be some brief, intermittent downtime this weekend as all of the Phoronix Media web server infrastructure is being upgraded. This also marks the first time in Phoronix's 16+ year history that the servers are AMD powered, thanks to the incredible success of the EPYC 7002 "Rome" series...

The Annual X.Org / Wayland / Mesa Conference Is Going Virtual Due To COVID-19

Phoronix - Fri, 07/03/2020 - 23:34
XDC 20 was set to take place this September in Poland but is now moving to an online event as a result of the ongoing coronavirus / COVID-19 pandemic...

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