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Better late than never, merged yesterday into the FFmpeg Git codebase is a DVD-Video demuxer...

Nate Graham is out with his belated weekend update to highlight all of the interesting KDE development activity for the week. This week, of course, saw the release of KDE MegaRelease 6 with Plasma 6.0, KDE Gear 24.02, and KDE Frameworks 6.0 in tow. Post-launch Graham characterizes Plasma 6.0 as being in good shape and the extra QA paying off. He commented, "Hopefully this should help banish those now 16-year-old painful memories of KDE 4. It’s a new KDE now. Harder, better, faster, stronger!"..

03 | March | 2024  Hackaday

GoWin Semi-Fanless 1U 25GbE Appliance is So Close  ServeTheHome

Evolving Linux HDR Support: Challenges, Developments, and How to Test with Steam  BNN Breaking

10 Quick Linux tips for DevOps: How to Make the Search Insensitive and Others.  Medium

10 Quick Linux tips for DevOps: How to Make the Search Insensitive and Others.  Medium

GNOME 46 to Ship with Experimental Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) Support  9to5Linux

Linux Pass: A Text-Based Password Manager  The New Stack

It's happened! After three years in the making, the GNOME desktop Variable Refresh Rate "VRR" support has been merged after obtaining a feature freeze exception for GNOME 46 due out later in March...

HDMI Forum 'blocks AMD open sourcing its 2.1 drivers'  The Register

Recently there has been out-of-tree successes on adapting Mesa to work on Microsoft's Universal Windows Platform (UWP). UWP is also used by the Microsoft Xbox Series X/S game consoles and in turn paired with the Microsoft D3D12 driver work within Mesa for allowing OpenGL and other APIs atop D3D12, is allowing new games/software to be ported to the Xbox...

Vulkan 1.3.279 debuted on Friday with many fixes/clarifications to the specifications plus one new extension...

AMD FreeSync Video Facing Retirement In Linux 6.9  Phoronix

Back in 2020 AMD rolled out a video mode optimization for FreeSync on Linux, continued being revised in 2021, FreeSync Video mode then attempted by default in 2022 but then was reverted and then only last year FreeSync Video enabled by default. But now come Linux 6.9, the feature appears to be effectively retired...

Beelink SEi12 i7-12650H mini PC review - Part 3: Ubuntu 22.04 Linux  CNX Software

Beelink SEi12 i7-12650H mini PC review – Part 3: Ubuntu 22.04 Linux  CNX Software

The WavPack open-source lossless wavefile compressor is up to version 5.7 after more than one year in development. Making this new release quite notable is adding multi-threaded encode and decode support to the WavPack library and its CLI tools...

Linux From Scratch 12.1 Released: Major Updates and Future Deprecations Unveiled  BNN Breaking

Should you be running nine or more GPUs per system, the Mesa 24.1 release next quarter will raise the limit of 8 DRM devices for the Vulkan API per system to now allow a theoretical 256 GPUs per system...