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Experimental Zero-Copy Support For Nouveau With GNOME Mutter

Phoronix - Thu, 10/26/2023 - 20:04
Ubuntu desktop developer Daniel Van Vugt has been working on enabling zero-copy support for discrete GPUs within GNOME's Mutter compositor to deliver faster performance. This appears to be working so far with the Nouveau open-source NVIDIA driver...

File Searching On KDE Plasma 6.0 To Use Less CPU Resources & Better Usability

Phoronix - Thu, 10/26/2023 - 18:48
Adding to the long list of improvements to find with next year's KDE Plasma 6.0 release is better file/folder searching with the "Recent Files" search area...

Blender 4.1 To Support Cycles Renderer On AMD RDNA3 APUs

Phoronix - Thu, 10/26/2023 - 18:35
Blender 4.0 will be releasing in early November but already there is something to look forward to with Blender 4.1 next year...

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