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More Intel Xe2 / Lunar Lake Graphics Support Readied For Open-Source Mesa Drivers

Phoronix - Wed, 09/27/2023 - 18:41
Earlier this month I noted that Intel's open-source Linux graphics driver engineers had begun working on the OpenGL and Vulkan Mesa driver support for Xe 2 graphics as to be found with Lunar Lake "LNL" processors. Since then the initial hardware enablement work has only continued heating up...

uvg266 Rolls Out More AVX2 Optimizations For Open-Source VVC/H.266 Encoding

Phoronix - Wed, 09/27/2023 - 18:29
Version 0.8 of uvg266 as one of the leading Versatile Video Codec (VVC) / H.266 open-source video encoders is now available...

TuxClocker 1.0 Released As An Alternative Way Of NVIDIA GPU Overclocking On Linux

Phoronix - Wed, 09/27/2023 - 08:01
TuxClocker has been in development for several years as another open-source GPU overclocking GUI for Linux. TuxClocker initially provided a Qt5-based user interface for GPU overclocking and ultimately established a D-Bus API as well with the new release. TuxClocker 1.0 was finally released today as the latest update to this Linux GPU overclocking software...

sdl12-compat 1.2.68 Allows More Games To Run On The Modern Linux Desktop

Phoronix - Wed, 09/27/2023 - 04:58
A new version of the sdl12-compat library is now available, which serves as an SDL2 portability layer for allowing old SDL 1.2.x games and applications work on modern SDL2 systems...

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