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Zink Lands Support For Partial Updates / Damage Handling

Phoronix - Thu, 02/29/2024 - 23:30
Valve contractor Mike Blumenkrantz is back at it working on some exciting improvements to Mesa and in particular for the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan implementation...

Mesa 24.1 Enables AV1 LTR Encode Support For RDNA3 GPUs With VCN4

Phoronix - Thu, 02/29/2024 - 23:10
Building upon the existing AV1 encode support for RDNA3 GPUs within the Mesa RadeonSI Gallium3D driver, AV1 Long-Term Reference "LTR" support is now enabled within Mesa 24.1...

GNOME Prompt Becomes Ptyxis

Phoronix - Thu, 02/29/2024 - 19:50
The GNOME Prompt terminal emulator in-development by Christian Hergert with a focus on GPU-acceleration and being a very speedy and beautiful terminal option has been renamed to Ptyxis...

Distrobox 1.7 Improves NVIDIA GPU Support, Better Wolfi Containers

Phoronix - Thu, 02/29/2024 - 19:37
Distrobox is the open-source software making it easy to run any Linux distribution inside your terminal by leveraging Podman, Docker, or Lilipod for containerizing the Linux distribution of your choice. Distrobox works well with a range of Linux distros and has developed quite a following. Out now is Distrobox 1.7 with yet more improvements to this innovative software...

NetBSD 10.0 Should Be Released Soon - Likely Last RC Debuts

Phoronix - Thu, 02/29/2024 - 19:27
NetBSD 10.0-RC5 was released on Wednesday as what is hopefully the last release candidate...

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