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CodeWeavers Releases CrossOver 24 Built Atop Wine 9.0

Phoronix - Thu, 02/22/2024 - 23:45
Building atop Wine 9.0 stable that released last month, CodeWeavers today released their commercial CrossOver 24 software for running Windows games and applications on Linux and macOS systems...

Mesa Looks At Making The Zink Driver Build By Default

Phoronix - Thu, 02/22/2024 - 19:48
With the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver implementation continuing to prove itself robust and as performant as native hardware OpenGL drivers, the Mesa developers continue exploring new opportunities for it. Given its successes, a merge request has been opened so Zink would become part of the default drivers built by Mesa out-of-the-box without needing to manually enable it for compilation...

Ardour 8.4 Digital Audio Workstation: Still Relying On GTK2, Adds AAF Import

Phoronix - Thu, 02/22/2024 - 19:25
Ardour 8.4 was released this week as the newest update to this open-source digital audio workstation (DAW) for Linux / macOS / Windows platforms...

DreamWorks Releases OpenMoonRay 1.5 Open-Source Renderer

Phoronix - Thu, 02/22/2024 - 19:18
Back in August 2022 DreamWorks Animation announced plans to open-source MoonRay as their production-grade renderer used on films like Puss In Boots: The Last Wish, How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, and other animated films. Nearly one year ago in March 2023 MoonRay was open-sourced as OpenMoonRay while this week brings the latest iteration of it: OpenMoonRay 1.5...

KDE Slimbook V Announced: The First KDE Plasma 6 Laptop With AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS CPU

Phoronix - Thu, 02/22/2024 - 18:58
The KDE Plasma 6 open-source desktop environment is launching next week and ahead of that the Slimbook V has been announced, the latest laptop crafted in partnership between the KDE project and Slimbook. This KDE-catered Linux laptop will feature the Plasma 6.0 desktop experience out-of-the-box and is powered by an AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS Zen 4 processor...

Casper Excalibur Laptops To See Better Linux Support With New Driver Proposal

Phoronix - Thu, 02/22/2024 - 18:38
For those in Turkey with Casper laptops or otherwise having access to that Turkish PC brand, their Excalibur line of higher-end laptops could soon see better Linux support thanks to a new WMI driver proposal...

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