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GNUnet 0.21 Rolls Out New Transport Layer For Building Decentralized, Distributed Apps

Phoronix - Fri, 03/08/2024 - 00:00
GNUnet 0.21 has been released as a major update to this GNU project building a network stack for secure, decentralized, and privacy-preserving distributed applications. GNUnet continues striving for a "GNU internet" and with the v0.21 release has rolled out a new transport layer and working to address prior design shortcomings...

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...

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