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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...
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      Linux 6.4 Slated To Start Removing Old, Unused & Unmaintained PCMCIA Drivers

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

    Queued up ahead of the Linux 6.4 cycle this spring is removing all of the PCMCIA "char" drivers as part of a broader effort to remove PCMCIA socket and card driver code where there is no apparent users remaining...
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      Box86 v0.3 & Box64 v0.2.2 Released For Running Linux x86/x86_64 Programs On Arm

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

    In addition to this week seeing new releases of FEX-Emu and Hangover for open-source projects aiming to run x86/x86_64 binaries on 64-bit Arm, the Box86 and related Box64 projects are out today with their own feature updates for helping to enable x86 and x86_64 Linux binaries on Arm systems...