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Ubuntu 25.04's GNOME Web Browser Will Be Able To Play More Web Videos By Default

Phoronix - Tue, 02/11/2025 - 22:54
Those making use of the GNOME Web "Epiphany" web browser with the upcoming Ubuntu 25.04 release will be able to enjoy playing more popular web videos thanks to a packaging change...

Arm Mali Panfrost Driver Lands OpenCL C Support In Mesa 25.1

Phoronix - Tue, 02/11/2025 - 21:46
The Panfrost Gallium3D driver has merged initial OpenCL C infrastructure into Mesa 25.1 for allowing OpenCL compute on Arm Mali graphics using this open-source Linux driver stack...

FLAC 1.5 Finally Delivers Multi-Threaded Encoding

Phoronix - Tue, 02/11/2025 - 21:36
FLAC 1.5 is out today as the newest feature update to the software built around the Free Lossless Audio Codec...

KDE Plasma 6.3 Released With Improved Fractional Scaling & Other Enhancements

Phoronix - Tue, 02/11/2025 - 19:44
Out just ahead of Valentine's Day is the much anticipated KDE Plasma 6.3 desktop release for further advancing this Qt6/KF6-based open-source desktop...

AMD AOMP 20.0-2 Compiler Adds The "flang-new" Fortran Compiler Option

Phoronix - Tue, 02/11/2025 - 19:24
AOMP 20.0-2 was released on Monday as the newest update to this AMD downstream of the LLVM/Clang/Flang code that is focused on delivering the latest staging/testing patches around OpenMP offloading to AMD GPUs using ROCm. Many of AMD's AMDGPU/OpenMP patches end up being upstreamed into LLVM proper while AOMP is the staging area for those wanting to have the latest and best experience for Clang C/C++ and Flang Fortran offloading to AMD Instinct/Radeon hardware...

BeOS-Inspired Haiku OS Starts 2025 Off Introducing An AMD CPU Temperature Driver

Phoronix - Tue, 02/11/2025 - 19:13
The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system project has published their January 2025 status report that outlines all of the interesting work over the past month...

Installing Nvidia Graphics Drivers on Debian 12

Tecmint - Tue, 02/11/2025 - 17:46
The post Installing Nvidia Graphics Drivers on Debian 12 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

If you are using Debian 12 and have an Nvidia graphics card, installing the correct drivers is essential for getting

The post Installing Nvidia Graphics Drivers on Debian 12 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

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