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PipeWire 0.3.60 Released With Many Fixes, Improvements

Phoronix - Thu, 11/10/2022 - 21:14
PipeWire 0.3.60 is out today as the newest update to this software used for managing audio and video streams on Linux. With modern Linux distributions PipeWire is increasingly used now as the replacement to PulseAudio in addition to its video capabilities...

Mesa Adds Initial Support For Open-Source OpenGL On NVIDIA RTX 30 "Ampere"

Phoronix - Thu, 11/10/2022 - 19:00
While NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 "Ada Lovelace" GPUs are shipping, the Nouveau Linux driver stack for open-source support on NVIDIA hardware is finally getting ready to provide basic OpenGL support for the existing RTX 30 "Ampere" graphics processors...

AMDVLK 2022.Q4.2 Brings More Performance Tuning

Phoronix - Thu, 11/10/2022 - 18:15
Following AMDVLK 2022.Q4.1 from late October, AMDVLK 2022.Q4.2 is now available as AMD's latest official open-source Vulkan Linux driver update for both gamers and enterprise customers...

Linux 6.2 To Introduce Allwinner A100 & D1 Display Support

Phoronix - Thu, 11/10/2022 - 18:05
Sent out today was this week's batch of "drm-misc-next" code containing Direct Rendering Manager updates to the core infrastructure and smaller drivers of material that is ready for queuing ahead of the Linux 6.2 cycle...

Radeon ROCm 5.3.2 Released With A Few Fixes

Phoronix - Thu, 11/10/2022 - 17:53
Another point release to the ROCm 5.3 series for AMD's open-source compute stack is now available...

Fedora Workstation Bringing Early Support For Blender On Wayland

Phoronix - Thu, 11/10/2022 - 17:39
While the release next month of Blender 3.4 is planning to ship with Wayland enabled, Fedora Linux 37 users are expected to soon find their packaged Blender versions already running with the Wayland support enabled...

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