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GIMP Releases Last Development Version For GIMP 3.0

Phoronix - Thu, 02/22/2024 - 04:00
GIMP 2.99.18 was released today as the last planned development version prior in the long road to GIMP 3.0 that has been a decade in the making for this free software Adobe Photoshop alternative...

IBM Begins Work On Power11 Enablement For Upcoming Linux 6.9

Phoronix - Thu, 02/22/2024 - 03:08
The first "Power11" patches were queued today into the PowerPC's "next" Git branch ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.9 kernel cycle...

Intel QATlib 24.02 Brings Support For GEN 5 QAT Devices

Phoronix - Thu, 02/22/2024 - 01:48
Intel has released a new version of QATlib, their user-space support library for the QuickAssist Technology (QAT) via add-in hardware and recent Xeon Scalable processors...

Intel Mesa Driver Code Working To Split Off Old Broadwell "Gen8" Graphics Code

Phoronix - Thu, 02/22/2024 - 00:00
Intel's Iris Gallium3D driver for modern OpenGL support works on hardware going back to old Broadwell processors with "Gen8" integrated graphics as does the HasVK Vulkan driver for Haswell/Broadwell. But in allowing to focus on the common Skylake "Gen9" graphics and newer/future Intel graphics architectures, pending Mesa code is working to split-off that old Broadwell/Gen8 code. The Gen8 support will continue to be in-tree but separated from the rest of the compiler code so that the code can continue to be improved for newer Intel hardware without risking regressions/breaking those still on Broadwell era processors...

WebKitGTK Moving To Skia For 2D Rendering To Yield Better Performance

Phoronix - Wed, 02/21/2024 - 23:06
WebKitGTK as the port of the WebKit rendering engine used by GNOME Web (Epipahny) and other software for displaying web content is transitioning to using Skia for its 2D rendering...

VVenC 1.11 Brings More Performance Improvements For H.266/VVC Encoding

Phoronix - Wed, 02/21/2024 - 21:49
Fraunhofer on Tuesday released their latest feature update to the Versatile Video Encoder for open-source H.266/VVC encoding...

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