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Intel Iris Gallium3D Driver Overhauls Its Buffer Allocation Code

Phoronix - Sun, 11/26/2023 - 19:40
While much of the modern graphics world these days is focused on the Vulkan API, there's no signs of Intel's open-source graphics driver engineers losing optimization focus with their OpenGL Linux driver by way of the Iris Gallium3D code. Merged this holiday week was a rather significant rework to its buffer object allocation system...

PipeWire 1.0 Released For Managing Audio/Video Steams On The Linux Desktop

Phoronix - Sun, 11/26/2023 - 19:16
It has finally happened: PipeWire 1.0 has been released as this now very common software to the Linux desktop for managing audio and video streams. With time it's proven to be a suitable replacement to the likes of PulseAudio and JACK while pushing forward the Linux desktop with its modern design and feature set...

LLVM Lands APX JMPABS Support, More Advanced Performance Extensions Work Landing

Phoronix - Sun, 11/26/2023 - 19:00
Intel compiler engineers remain quite busy working not only on AVX10 family support but also plumbing in the Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) to be found with future Intel processors...

OpenMandriva Lx 5.0 Released: Powered By Linux 6.6 LTS, Their Last Release On Plasma 5

Phoronix - Sun, 11/26/2023 - 01:27
Over four years after the debut of OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 and in the interim since also working on the ROME rolling-release platform, OpenMandriva Lx 5.0 finally debuted today...

Firefox 121 Is Looking Good For Having Wayland Enabled By Default

Phoronix - Sat, 11/25/2023 - 22:17
Firefox 121 is aiming to ship with Wayland support enabled by default rather than falling back to XWayland on modern Linux desktops. So far things are looking up for this indeed remaining the case for next month's Firefox 121 stable release...

Debian's MIPS64EL CPU Port Is At Risk Due To Declining Hardware Access

Phoronix - Sat, 11/25/2023 - 21:30
Debian's MIPS64EL that is a 64-bit little endian port using the N64 ABI is at risk due to declining access for building the Debian 64-bit MIPS packages. MIPS64EL is now being treated as an "out of sync" architecture due to lacking sufficient build daemon resources for timely building new packages and if the situation doesn't improve, it may not be suitable as a release architecture for Debian 13 "Trixie"...

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