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      Canonical Promotes Ubuntu Pro To General Availability

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 January, 2023

    Canonical announced this morning that their Ubuntu Pro subscription service has been promoted from beta to general availability (GA)...
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      BSD-Powered helloSystem 0.8 Performance Against Linux On AMD Zen 4

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 January, 2023

    With many Phoronix readers having been excited by the recent helloSystem v0.8 release as a FreeBSD-powered OS taking major design inspiration from Apple's macOS, I decided to run some benchmarks to see how this FreeBSD 13.1 based operating system was competing with a few different Linux distributions from an AMD Ryzen 9 7950X (Zen 4) desktop.
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      Vulkan 1.3.240 Brings New Extension To Help With DirectX Ray-Tracing Compatibility

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 January, 2023

    Following the month-long Christmas break, the Vulkan API working group is back to carrying out weekly(-ish) updates to the Vulkan specification. Out this morning is Vulkan 1.3.240 that brings one new extension in addition to a number of clarifications and corrections to the document...
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      Wine 8.1 Picks Up Vulkan HDR Extension For Helping With Valve's HDR Gaming Enablement

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 January, 2023

    Now that Wine 8.0 shipped earlier this week, the Wine Git tree is back to accepting new feature patches after it was under a feature freeze since early December. With nearly two months worth of feature work to land, it's been a busy week landing new code for what in turn will be found in the Wine 8.1 bi-weekly development release...
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      PipeWire 0.3.65 Adds New Combine-Stream Module, Bluetooth MIDI

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 January, 2023

    PipeWire 0.3.65 is out today as the newest feature update to this novel server for managing audio/video streams on Linux...
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      FreeBSD Ends 2022 Short Of Fundraising Goal But Continues Driving New Features

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 January, 2023

    FreeBSD has published its 2022'Q4 quarterly status report that outlines all of the progress made by this open-source BSD operating system project...
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      Intel oneVPL GPU Runtime 22.6.5 Brings AV1 & VP9 Encode Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 January, 2023

    Following the recent release of the Intel Media Driver 2022Q4, Intel's oneVPL GPU runtime has been updated for its quarterly feature release that builds atop the Media Driver / VA-API stack and is about oneAPI integration for the video processing layer...
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      AMD Working To Upstream New AMDGPU/AMDKFD Compute Debugger API

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 January, 2023

    AMD sent out a set of 32 kernel patches today for their AMDKFD/AMDGPU kernel driver code in providing upstream support for debugging of their GPU compute instruction set architecture (ISA)...
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      openSUSE Making It Easier To Install H.264 Codec Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 January, 2023

    The openSUSE project in collaboration with Cisco is making it easier to deploy H.264 codec support on openSUSE Leap and Tumbleweed...