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GNOME 46 Released With Improved Search, Experimental VRR & More Polish

Phoronix - Wed, 03/20/2024 - 23:37
The GNOME project has announced the much anticipated release of the GNOME 46 desktop...

A Game Is Finally Announced For The Open 3D Engine

Phoronix - Wed, 03/20/2024 - 23:14
Announced back in 2021 by the Linux Foundation was Amazon Lumberyard becoming the Open 3D Engine and the Linux Foundation fostering the Open 3D Foundation for evolving this new open-source game engine. Three years later there is now a commercial game announced for the Open 3D Engine (O3DE)...

DXVK 2.3.1 Allows For More Efficient Shader Code Generation On NVIDIA GPUs

Phoronix - Wed, 03/20/2024 - 21:26
DXVK 2.3.1 has been released for this Steam Play compknent that implements the Direct3D 9/10/11 APIs atop Vulkan. Notable with DXVK 2.3.1 is VK_NV_raw_access_chains support for more efficient shader code generation on NVIDIA GPUs...

IBM Posts GCC Patches For -mcpu=power11 Support

Phoronix - Wed, 03/20/2024 - 20:45
In-step with early Power11 patches in Linux 6.9, IBM engineers have posted the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) patches for enabling -mcpu=power11 targeting within this open-source compiler...

Tiny Corp Puts Their AMD-Powered Compute Boxes "On Hold"

Phoronix - Wed, 03/20/2024 - 18:54
Tiny Corp has been frustrated before with AMD / ROCm and planned to drop AMD graphics cards in their planned compute boxes over it only to go back to AMD GPUs with their open-source driver stack later. It's now happened again following frustrations over firmware binaries. After recently lobbying AMD to at least open-source some relevant pieces of their firmware and at ~70% confidence over their plans, Tiny Corp announced on Tuesday they are dropping AMD GPUs again from their compute plans...

Bcachefs Fixes Deadlock In Recovery, More Fixes Coming

Phoronix - Wed, 03/20/2024 - 18:43
Following the revised Bcachefs code making it into Linux 6.9 and a warning for Bcachefs multi-device users to move past Linux 6.7, a batch of fixes was merged overnight for Linux 6.9 while further fixes to this file-system are expected soon...

XWayland Rootful Lands HiDPI / Fractional Scaling Support

Phoronix - Wed, 03/20/2024 - 18:30
Running XWayland in rootful mode now allows for working HiDPI and fractional scaling support...

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