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Mir 2.19 Released With Atomic KMS Platform Support, New Wayland Protocols

Phoronix - Tue, 12/03/2024 - 02:51
Mir 2.19 is out today as the newest version of this Ubuntu/Canonical project making it easier for other desktops/environments to embrace Wayland support. This set of libraries for building Wayland-based shells has added a few new features with today's update...

Vulkan 1.4 Released With More Extensions Mandated, Better 8K Rendering

Phoronix - Tue, 12/03/2024 - 01:00
As a lovely early Christmas present, The Khronos Group used SIGGRAPH Asia today for announcing the Vulkan 1.4 specification release...

AMD Per-Core Energy Counter Support Slated For Linux 6.14

Phoronix - Mon, 12/02/2024 - 23:00
While the Linux 6.13 merge window just closed yesterday in landing all of the new features and functionality for that first kernel version of 2025, already for the Linux 6.14 kernel cycle to follow a feature was queued up early this morning in a TIP branch: AMD per-core energy counter support...

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger Retires

Phoronix - Mon, 12/02/2024 - 21:47
While Intel has been under much financial difficulties and as they pursue their build out of new fabs to better compete with TSMC, to much surprise Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has retired effective today...

Qt 6.8.1 Toolkit Released With 550+ Bug Fixes

Phoronix - Mon, 12/02/2024 - 21:27
Building off the early October release of Qt 6.8 LTS, Qt 6.8.1 is out today with more than 550 fixes collected over the past two months...

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