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Mesa 24.1 Git has landed the initial infrastructure for allowing drivers to choose to using Zink instead for OpenGL via this OpenGL-on-Vulkan implementation

When it comes to today's complex RGB lighting for PC peripherals and the like it's mostly been left up to user-space

WebKitGTK as the port of the WebKit rendering engine used by GNOME Web (Epipahny) and other software for displaying web content is transitioning to using Skia for its 2D rendering.

Intel's Iris Gallium3D driver for modern OpenGL support works on hardware going back to old Broadwell processors with 'Gen8' integrated graphics as does the HasVK Vulkan driver for Haswell/Broadwell

Fraunhofer on Tuesday released their latest feature update to the Versatile Video Encoder for open-source H.266/VVC encoding.

Intel has released a new version of QATlib, their user-space support library for the QuickAssist Technology (QAT) via add-in hardware and recent Xeon Scalable processors.

The first 'Power11' patches were queued today into the PowerPC's 'next' Git branch ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.9 kernel cycle.

GIMP 2.99.18 was released today as the last planned development version prior in the long road to GIMP 3.0 that has been a decade in the making for this free software Adobe Photoshop alternative.

There are some new Linux kernel patches that were posted by Intel on Monday that aim to help enhance the overall performance and power efficiency of new Meteor Lake laptop processors under Linux.

Red Hat announced today some changes to how they handle their beta releases for minor updates to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.