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      VideoLAN Publishes Dav2d For Open-Source AV2 Decoder

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11:03

    While the Alliance For Open Media had been aiming for the AV2 release by the end of 2025, as of right now the AV2 specification remains in a draft status. VideoLAN developers though for months have already been working on dav2d as an open-source AV2 decoder and that code was published this weekend...
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      FreeBSD 15.1 Beta Released For Early Testing

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:53

    Following last year's release of FreeBSD 15.0, FreeBSD 15.1 is working its way toward release release in June. For kicking off the release dance, FreeBSD 15.1 Beta 1 is available today for testing...
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      NVIDIA Ships Fixes For Descriptor Heaps, More Vulkan Performance Optimizations

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:41

    NVIDIA on Friday released the 595.44.06 beta driver build as their newest Vulkan developer beta for Linux. This was joined by the NVIDIA 595.46 Windows Vulkan beta and there are performance improvements in tow and more work on their descriptor heaps support...
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      KDE Plasma 6.6.5 Fixes Some NVIDIA Performance Issues, More Features Land For Plasma 6.7

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:19

    We are now just one month out from the planned release of Plasma 6.7 in mid-June. Feature activity continues to be brisk for Plasma 6.7 while KDE developers also continue landing more fixes for the current Plasma 6.6 series...
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      Steam On Linux In April Pulled Back From Its Record High Marketshare

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:16

    Steam on Linux use in March had skyrocketed to 5.33%, a 3.1% boost month-over-month and easily the highest level we've seen Steam on Linux at since its inception more than a decade ago. This record growth came amid the ongoing success of the Steam Deck handheld and Steam Play (Proton) for enabling more Windows games to run well on Linux. The April numbers are in and the Linux gaming marketshare pulled back somewhat but still remaining healthy...
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      Wine 11.8 Improves VBScript Compatibility, Finally Fixes Microsoft Golf 1999

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 hours ago

    Wine 11.8 delivers the latest and greatest support for running Windows applications and games under Linux and other platforms. This newest bi-weekly development release brings several more enhancements in working toward Wine 12.0 stable due out in early 2027...
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      EndeavourOS "Trtion" To Ship New Desktop/WM Options, Titan Neo Brings Various Updates

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 hours ago

    In addition to today's monthly ISO refresh of Arch Linux that is now pulling in the Linux 7.0 kernel and other updates, the downstream EndeavourOS also happens to be out with a new ISO release for starting the month of May...
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      Vulkan 1.4.350 Released With Three New Extensions

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 hours ago

    Vulkan 1.4.350 released earlier today as the newest routine spec update. Beyond the usual minor fixes/clarifications, Vulkan 1.4.350 tacks on three more extensions...
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      AMD Posts HDMI 2.1 FRL Patches For Their AMDGPU Linux Driver

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    It's not complete HDMI 2.1 support but to much surprise hitting the mailing list today were official patches from AMD for implementing HDMI Fixed Rate Link "FRL" support for their kernel graphics driver. HDMI FRL as part of HDMI 2.1+ allows for higher bandwidth to support higher refresh rates and resolutions...