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Intel's Rendering Toolkit Turns To More Open, Community-Welcoming Development Model

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 October, 2024

Intel's oneAPI Rendering Toolkit with the likes of OSPRay, Embree, OpenVKL, Open Image Denoise, and others has been open-source for years. But it's not been exactly an open-source development model with making it easy for independent contributors to propose code changes. But Intel has now decided to make these projects more like traditional open-source projects and welcoming community contributions -- including from different hardware vendors...

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KDE Plasma 6.2 Released With More Desktop Polishing

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 October, 2024

KDE Plasma 6.2 is now available as the latest refinement to the modern Plasma 6 desktop environment...

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A Few Intel Xe2 Graphics Tuning Updates Found In Linux 6.12-rc2

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 October, 2024

Merged as part of last week's Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) graphics/display driver fixes for Linux 6.12-rc2 are a few performance tuning updates for Intel Xe2 graphics to benefit the recently released Core Ultra 200 Series "Lunar Lake" laptops...

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LunarG Exploring Vulkan To Metal Translation With Mesa

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 October, 2024

While there is the open-source MoltenVK project that implements the Vulkan API atop Apple's Metal graphics drivers on iOS/macOS, the 3D graphics consulting firm LunarG is exploring the possibility of implementing Vulkan to Metal translation using Mesa...

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Qt 6.8 LTS Released With XR Module, Lower RAM Usage & Quicker Start Times

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 October, 2024

Today marks the release of Qt 6.8 as not only a new feature release but also the latest long-term support (LTS) release for this open-source, cross-platform toolkit...

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GNOME Foundation Announces Cost Cutting Measures Due To Budget Woes

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 October, 2024

While the recently-departed GNOME Foundation Executive Director in the summer statement was described as "drafting a bold five-year strategic plan for the Foundation, securing two important fiscal sponsorship agreements with GIMP and Black Python Devs, writing our first funding proposal that will now enable the Foundation to apply for more grants, vastly improving our financial operations, and implementing a break-even budget to preserve our financial reserves." It turns out that wasn't enough. The GNOME Foundation today announced some new cost-cutting measures for the project overseeing the open-source GNOME desktop...

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OpenBSD 7.6 Released With AVX-512, Initial Support For Snapdragon X Elite SoCs

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 October, 2024

OpenBSD 7.6 is out this evening as another major step forward for this BSD operating system with enhanced hardware support, security improvements, updating various user-space software, and enabling other kernel enhancements...

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FEX 2410 Released With New JIT Optimizations

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 October, 2024

FEX 2410 is out as the newest monthly update to this open-source emulator that allows running Linux x86/x86_64 binaries on Linux AArch64 (ARM 64-bit) systems, including for games and software like Steam. With FEX 2410 there are yet more fixes as well as some new JIT optimizations...

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Python 3.13 Debuts With New Interactive Interpreter & Experimental JIT

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 October, 2024

Following a last minute delay due to a performance regression, Python 3.13 stable is out today as the annual major feature release to this widely-used scripting language implementation...