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GNOME 3.36 Released With Latest Wayland Improvements, Parental Controls, New Lock Screen

Phoronix - Wed, 03/11/2020 - 23:28
Red Hat's Matthias Clasen had the honor of announcing GNOME 3.36 as the latest half-year update to the GNOME 3 desktop environment...

LoadLibrary: Support For Loading Windows DLLs On Linux

Phoronix - Wed, 03/11/2020 - 22:03
A Google researcher has been developing "LoadLibrary" as a means of being able to load Windows Dynamic Link Libraries (DLLs) that in turn can be used by native Linux code...

RADV ACO Can Now Handle More Shaders With Mesa 20.1-devel

Phoronix - Wed, 03/11/2020 - 19:28
Prolific ACO shader compiler back-end developer Timur Kristóf has managed to land his latest improvements in Mesa 20.1-devel for this alternative to the AMDGPU LLVM back-end supported so far by the RADV Vulkan driver...

Unicode 13.0 Released With A Plunger, Fondue & Other New Emoji

Phoronix - Wed, 03/11/2020 - 19:06
Unicode 13 is now officially available with standardizing 143,859 different characters...

GNOME 3.36 Set To Be Released Today With Ongoing Wayland + Performance Improvements

Phoronix - Wed, 03/11/2020 - 18:49
GNOME 3.36 is slated to be released today so here is a look back at much of the prominent work being introduced in this six month update to the GNOME desktop...

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