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Fedora COSMIC Desktop Spin Being Considered

Phoronix - Sat, 02/17/2024 - 21:55
System76 has been developing the Rust-based COSMIC desktop for their Pop!_OS Linux distribution but its usage won't be artificially limited to that in-house distro. Among other distributions that have been looking toward packaging it, interest is currently being evaluated in creating a Fedora special interest group (SIG) for the COSMIC desktop environment...

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Desktop Installer Adds New Accessibility Options

Phoronix - Sat, 02/17/2024 - 21:47
The Ubuntu 24.04 LTS desktop installer has rolled out accessibility options built into the initial GUI for helping enable additional features...

dav1d 1.4 Released With More AVX-512 Optimizations, RISC-V & LoongArch CPU Support

Phoronix - Sat, 02/17/2024 - 19:48
While recent graphics cards support GPU-accelerated AV1 video decoding, for those still relying on dav1d for CPU-based AV1 decode there is now version 1.4 "Road Runner" available that adds support for LoongArch and RISC-V architectures while continuing to further enhance the performance of this open-source AV1 decoder on x86_64 Intel/AMD processors too...

More Fixes Land Ahead Of KDE Plasma 6.0 Coming In Two Weeks

Phoronix - Sat, 02/17/2024 - 19:28
There is just two weeks to go until the much-anticipated KDE 6 Mega-Release that includes KDE Plasma 6.0, KDE Frameworks 6, and the updated KDE Gear apps. KDE developers continue fixing bugs as well as already working on KDE Plasma 6.1 features...

Intel's OIDn 2.2 Released With Meteor Lake GPU Support, Better CPU Performance

Phoronix - Sat, 02/17/2024 - 19:09
Intel on Friday released Open Image Denoise 2.2 as the newest version of this open-source denoising library used by Blender and other software...

New GNOME Mutter Code Prepares Fractional Scaling For XWayland

Phoronix - Sat, 02/17/2024 - 05:08
A merge request was opened this week for plumbing fractional scaling support for XWayland clients running on the GNOME Mutter compositor...

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