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RBOS Updated As The Linux Live Environment Showcasing The Latest Wayland Code

Phoronix - Tue, 01/17/2023 - 20:02
For over a decade now RebeccaBlackOS "RBOS" has been around as a live Linux environment intended to showcase the latest Wayland code from various desktops/compositors to other Wayland-native software. RBOS pre-dates many of the major Linux distributions offering any Wayland support out-of-the-box...

VK_MESA_video_decode_av1: Early Vulkan AV1 Decoding For Open-Source Radeon Driver

Phoronix - Tue, 01/17/2023 - 19:30
While the Vulkan Video extensions were introduced provisionally nearly two years ago and Vulkan Video 1.0 firmed up in December, sadly to date they have been focused on H.264 and H.265 video acceleration. VP9 and AV1 extensions for Vulkan Video are expected in 2023, but in advance of the cross-vendor extensions, VK_MESA_video_decode_av1 has been devised as an extension enabling RADV accelerated video decode with AMD Radeon GPUs...

VA-API 2.17 Released With Basic X11 DRI3 Support, Enabling VA-API On Windows

Phoronix - Tue, 01/17/2023 - 19:18
In addition to Intel engineers this past week releasing the newest Intel Media Driver quarterly release, they have also published libva 2.17 as the newest version of this open-source Video Acceleration API library that is used across VA-API vendor/driver implementations...

libvirt 9.0 Released For Latest Linux Virtualization API

Phoronix - Tue, 01/17/2023 - 19:01
Libvirt 9.0 was released on Monday as the newest version of this Linux Virtualization API. This virtualization API backed by Red Hat continues to support a wide range of hypervisors and with the v9.0 release has added additional functionality...

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