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DXVK 3.0 Released With DXBC-SPIRV For Shader Compilation, Descriptor Heaps By Default

Phoronix - Fri, 06/26/2026 - 04:29
Philip Rebohle announced the release today of DXVK 3.0 as the latest major feature release for this Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 implementation atop the Vulkan API for use by Wine and Valve's Steam Play (Proton)...

Academy Software Foundation Announces The "Wayland For Artists Working Group"

Phoronix - Fri, 06/26/2026 - 02:12
The Academy Software Foundation that advances open-source efforts for the VFX/cinema industry and more with the likes of OpenVDB, OpenMoonRay, Open Shading Language, and other projects, has announced the formation of a new working group to help with Wayland adoption for artists...

Updated Raspberry Pi OS With Linux 6.18 LTS Delivers Some Performance Benefits

Phoronix - Fri, 06/26/2026 - 00:30
Last week marked the release of an updated Raspberry Pi OS that moved to Linux 6.18 LTS from its former Linux 6.12 kernel base along with making a number of other package updates. Given the jump to the newer Long Term Support kernel and other improvements, I ran some fresh benchmarks on the Raspberry Pi 5 (Raspberry Pi 500+) to see the performance difference out of the updated operating system.

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