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GTK 4.14 To Provide Crisper Font Rendering, Better Fractional Scaling

Phoronix - Thu, 03/07/2024 - 21:27
The upcoming GTK 4.14 toolkit release with the new renderers should yield crisper font rendering...

Mesa's CPU-Based Vulkan Driver Now Supports Ray-Tracing

Phoronix - Thu, 03/07/2024 - 19:46
The performance is likely to be atrocious, but the Mesa Lavapipe driver implementing the Vulkan API for CPU-based execution has rolled out support for Vulkan ray-tracing...

Etnaviv Preps For Vivante PCI Device Support, Changes For Mesa's Teflon NPU Handling

Phoronix - Thu, 03/07/2024 - 19:38
The Etnaviv DRM kernel driver providing reverse-engineered support for Vivante graphics and NPU IP has sent out their latest feature changes to DRM-Next ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.9 merge window...

Experimental Linux Patches Allow Kernel Tracing To Work Past Reboots/Crashes

Phoronix - Thu, 03/07/2024 - 19:13
Steven Rostedt this week posted some interesting albeit experimental patches for the Linux kernel to support persistent traces that work across a reboot or crash...

Fedora Workstation 41 To No Longer Install GNOME X.Org Session By Default

Phoronix - Thu, 03/07/2024 - 13:00
Fedora Workstation has long defaulted to using GNOME's Wayland session by default, but it has continued to install the GNOME X.Org session for fallback purposes or those opting to use it instead. But for the Fedora Workstation 41 release later in the year, there is a newly-approved plan to no longer have that GNOME X.Org session installed by default...

Basic OpenGL Support Merged For Wine's Wayland Driver

Phoronix - Thu, 03/07/2024 - 08:39
The merge request enabling basic OpenGL support for the Wine Wayland driver has been merged to Wine Git this evening as another important step forward for native Wayland support for enjoying Windows games/apps on Linux...

Tiny Corp At "70%" Confidence For AMD To Open-Source Some Relevant GPU Firmware

Phoronix - Thu, 03/07/2024 - 03:18
Following the news from earlier around George Hotz' Tiny Corp raising new AMD GPU issues and calling for the MES firmware to be open-sourced followed by a positive message from AMD CEO Lisa Su, there's a new update on the matter following a meeting today between Tiny Corp and AMD...

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