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GNOME Network Displays Adds Support For Chromecast & Miracast MICE Protocols

Phoronix - Thu, 01/25/2024 - 19:51
GNOME Network Displays is the software that allows streaming your GNOME desktop to WiFi Display devices using PipeWire. Last week GNOME Network Displays 0.91 was released with some big improvements to this software...

Steam Beta Adds VA-API DRM Video Acceleration For Remote Play

Phoronix - Thu, 01/25/2024 - 19:41
In addition to OBS adding AV1 VA-API support, some more good Linux video acceleration news this week is Valve enabling VA-API DRM hardware-accelerated video decoding when using Remote Play with the newest Steam beta...

OpenVINO 2023.3 Brings Full Support For Intel Emerald Rapids, Broader GenAI & LLMs

Phoronix - Thu, 01/25/2024 - 19:28
Intel engineers on Wednesday released OpenVINO 2023.3 as the latest major update to this leading open-source AI toolkit. The OpenVINO 2023.3 brings "full support" for new Emerald Rapids and Meteor Lake processors, other Intel hardware support improvements, and continuing to expand support around generative AI (GenAI) and large language models (LLMs)...

Understanding APT, APT-Cache and Their Frequently Used Commands

Tecmint - Thu, 01/25/2024 - 13:31
The post Understanding APT, APT-Cache and Their Frequently Used Commands first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

If you’ve ever used Debian or Debian-based distributions like Ubuntu or Linux Mint, then chances are that you’ve used the apt package system to install or

The post Understanding APT, APT-Cache and Their Frequently Used Commands first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Mesa 24.0-rc3 Up For Testing, Mesa 23.3.4 Out As Stable

Phoronix - Thu, 01/25/2024 - 09:27
Eric Engestrom with Igalia continues doing a stellar job maintaining the Mesa 23.3 stable series while also leading the Mesa 24.0 release candidates for that upcoming Q1'2024 stable series...

GCC 14 Compiler Might Have AMD RDNA3 GPU Support "Working For Most Purposes"

Phoronix - Thu, 01/25/2024 - 03:24
Earlier this month the GCC 14 compiler landed initial support for AMD RDNA3 "GFX11" graphics processors as part of the GNU Compiler Collection's OpenMP device offloading support for GPU compute. That initial support was rather basic but a follow-up patch has the possibility of making the RDNA3 (GFX11) support "working for most purposes" and will hopefully still be merged in time for the GCC 14.1 stable release...

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