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Blender 4.3 Beta Delivers Experimental Vulkan UI Rendering

Phoronix - Fri, 10/04/2024 - 20:58
Blender 4.3 is available today in beta form to encourage public testing of this next feature release to this leading open-source 3D modeling software...

Red Hat Engineer Working On DRM Panic Support For AMDGPU Driver

Phoronix - Fri, 10/04/2024 - 18:52
Red Hat engineer Jocelyn Falempe has been working to sort out DRM Panic support for the AMDGPU driver. The DRM Panic infrastructure is useful since it's what allows presenting a panic screen, a.k.a. a "Blue Screen of Death" type experience when running into major kernel problems. With Linux 6.12 there's now the ability to show QR codes for error messages with DRM Panic...

Zink Seeing VA-API Video Acceleration Implemented Over Vulkan Video

Phoronix - Fri, 10/04/2024 - 18:39
The Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver has experimental code now available for testing that also implements the Video Acceleration API (VA-API) atop the Vulkan Video APIs. This is an interesting effort that now allows VA-API applications to rely on drivers with Vulkan Video support underneath...

Zrythm Digital Audio Workstation Abandoning GTK For Qt6

Phoronix - Fri, 10/04/2024 - 18:31
Zrythm is an interesting open-source digital audio workstation (DAW) software package. It's been making use of the GTK toolkit but now the developers have decided to switch to Qt6 instead...

Servo Browser Adds Android Downloads, Improved Tabbing & More

Phoronix - Fri, 10/04/2024 - 18:14
The Rust-written Servo web layout engine project that was born at Mozilla and now continued by Linux Foundation Europe with other stakeholders like Igalia has been making steady progress in recent months. The project's September 2024 status report is now available that outlines recent improvements to this open-source browser layout engine...

How to Create Mobile Apps Using “LiveCode” in Linux

Tecmint - Fri, 10/04/2024 - 15:15
The post How to Create Mobile Apps Using “LiveCode” in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

LiveCode is a programming language that first appeared in 1993. Its main goal is to allow everybody to code; it

The post How to Create Mobile Apps Using “LiveCode” in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

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