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KDE Frameworks 6 Discussions Light Up With Qt 6.0 Coming Next Year

Phoronix - Sat, 10/12/2019 - 18:48
With The Qt Company working hard now on development around Qt 6, the KDE developers are beginning their early discussions over their path forward to adopting this next evolutionary tool-kit update...

xf86-video-amdgpu 19.1 Delivers A Batch Of Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 10/12/2019 - 18:04
AMD has released a new version of their X.Org display driver...

X-Plane 11.50 Flight Simulator Bringing Vulkan Support

Phoronix - Sat, 10/12/2019 - 12:09
For years we have been looking forward to the realistic X-Plane flight simulator rendered by Vulkan as an alternative to their long-standing OpenGL render and with X-Plane 11.50 that is finally being made a reality...

Rspamd 2.0 Released For Advancing Free Software Spam Filtering

Phoronix - Sat, 10/12/2019 - 05:01
Rspamd 2.0 has been released as the newest version of this leading open-source spam filtering software and it's coming with plenty of changes...

Tons Of The Intel Tiger Lake "Gen 12" Graphics Compiler Code Just Landed In Mesa 19.3

Phoronix - Sat, 10/12/2019 - 04:04
A lot of the Tiger Lake "Gen 12" graphics compiler infrastructure changes to Mesa for Intel's open-source OpenGL and Vulkan Linux drivers were just merged into the Mesa 19.3 code-base...

KDE Plasma Mobile Is Beginning To Look Surprisingly Good

Phoronix - Sat, 10/12/2019 - 00:30
The KDE Plasma Mobile team has begun publishing weekly reports on their development efforts for making KDE software more suitable for mobile devices as well as convergence and other efforts in common with KDE on the desktop...

Raspberry Pi 4's V3D Mesa Driver Nearing OpenGL ES 3.1

Phoronix - Fri, 10/11/2019 - 21:51
Back during the summer Eric Anholt who had been the lead developer of Broadcom's VC4/V3D graphics driver stack most notably used by Raspberry Pi boards left the company to join Google. In his place, the Raspberry Pi Foundation is working with consulting firm Igalia to continue work on the DRM/KMS kernel driver and Gallium3D drivers for this open-source graphics driver support...

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