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GNOME Merge Requests Opened That Would Drop X.Org Session Support

Phoronix - Mon, 10/09/2023 - 18:39
A set of merge requests were opened that would effectively drop X.Org (X11) session support for the GNOME desktop and once that code is removed making it a Wayland-only desktop environment...

Intel APX Code Begins Landing Within The GCC Compiler

Phoronix - Mon, 10/09/2023 - 18:27
In addition to Intel's compiler engineers pushing a lot of code into GCC -- and other open-source compiler components -- around AVX10, over the weekend code began hitting the GCC 14 Git codebase for the Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) functionality...

Hangover 8.17 Released With Updated Box64 & FEX Integration

Phoronix - Mon, 10/09/2023 - 18:17
Hangover 8.17 was released this weekend as the newest feature release for this open-source Wine-based software that aims to make it easy to run Windows x86/x64 binaries on 64-bit Arm Linux systems as well as potentially other architectures too like RISC-V and POWER...

Libva 2.20 Released For Video Acceleration API

Phoronix - Mon, 10/09/2023 - 18:03
Libva 2.20 was released today as the newest update to this common Video Acceleration API (VA-API) library that sits in front of the various hardware-specific VA-API driver implementations...

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