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Linux 6.4 To Remove Old Workaround For Running On Very Outdated Distributions

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 March, 2023

Linux 6.4 is set to remove the old CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED and CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 options that are used for running newer versions of the Linux kernel with very old Linux distributions and user-space tools. Pre 2007~2008 distributions as a result would likely run into trouble trying to run on Linux 6.4+ kernels...

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SDL3 Introduces The Concept Of Child Popup Windows

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 March, 2023

Development work on SDL3 continues at full-speed for the next version of this hardware/software abstraction library that is commonly used by cross-platform games. The newest feature merged is support for child pop-up windows...

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NVIDIA VA-API Driver 0.0.9 Released With YUV444 Support

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 March, 2023

The open-source nvidia-vaapi-driver project is an independent effort implementing the Video Acceleration API (VA-API) atop of the NVDEC interface supported by NVIDIA's proprietary driver. This VA-API-on-NVDEC implementation allows for video acceleration within Firefox and other software only targeting this open API...

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VirtIO Native Context Being Worked On For AMD Drivers To Enhance VM Performance

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 March, 2023

As part of an AMD effort to enhance the performance of the AMD Linux graphics drivers when running in a virtualized environment, a set of initial patches are pending for Mesa that implement native context support for VirtIO...

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Linux 6.4 To Enable Sensor Monitoring On More ASUS Z590 Motherboards

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 March, 2023

A simple patch queued in "hwmon-next" this week for the Linux 6.4 cycle later this spring gets motherboard sensor monitoring working on three more ASUS motherbards for modern Intel systems...

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GNU Octave 8.1 Released For Free Software MATLAB Alternative

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 March, 2023

GNU Octave 8.1 is out today as the newest feature release to this free software for scientific computing and numerical computations that remains a leading open-source alternative to MATLAB...

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Linux 6.2.4 & 6.1.17 Released To Fix An Easy-To-Trigger Kernel Oops

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 March, 2023

Linux 6.2.4 and 6.1.17 kernels have been released this morning as new emergency releases...

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KDE's Konsole Now Works On Windows, More Plasma Wayland Fixes Come Too

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 March, 2023

It was a busy March week for KDE developers as they have now got the Konsole terminal emulator working on Windows, Qt apps surviving compositor restarts, other Plasma 6.0 development work under their belt, and the continued flow of fixes...

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Radeon ProRender SDK 3.1 Released - Finishes Transition From OpenCL To HIP

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 March, 2023

AMD today published Radeon ProRender SDK 3.1 as the newest version of this cross-platform and open-source physically-based rendering engine...