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Progress and Future Plans for Upstream Support of Rockchip RK3588

As 2024 concludes, the Rockchip RK3588 platform has seen substantial progress in upstream support. Collabora’s latest announcement highlights advancements in kernel integration, hardware enablement, and foundational software, driven by the open-source community.

$6.80 LILYGO T7-C6 Board Leverages RISC-V Single-Core Processor & 4MB Integrated Flash Memory

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Darktable 5.0 Open-Source RAW Image Editor Officially Released, Here’s What’s New

Darktable 5.0 brings major UI/UX improvements like camera-specific styles for more than 500 camera models to more closely approximate the out-of-camera JPEG rendition, an optional splash screen showing startup progress, a high-contrast theme with bright white text on a dark gray background, more new-user hints on an empty Lighttable, and a global preference to swap the left and right side panels in the darkroom view.

CachyOS Now Uses AutoFDO Kernel as Default Across All Supported Architectures

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Debian-Based Grml 2024.12 Linux Distro Is Out with Support for 64-Bit ARM CPUs

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DXVK 2.5.2 Improves Support for Alpha Protocol, Borderlands 2, and Other Games

DXVK 2.5.2 is here to add an implementation of D3D9 shader validation interfaces, which is needed for The Void and several other D3D9 games, add support for VK_FORMAT_A8_UNORM to fix warnings in various games, as well as rendering issues in TopSpin 2K25, and optimize the behavior of disabled clip planes for D3D9 games.

GNUnet 0.19.4

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 02, 2023,
updated Apr 02, 2023

This is a bugfix release for gnunet 0.19.3. Special thanks goes out to ulfvonbelow who provided an array of patches. This is not an April Fool's joke.

Download links

gnunet-0.19.4.tar.gz ( signature )

3D11063C10F98D14BD24D1470B0998EF86F59B6A

http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnunet/ A detailed list of changes can be found in the

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