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GNOME Merges RDP Graphical Remote Login Support

Phoronix - Sun, 01/07/2024 - 02:16
After the merge request was open since August of 2022, merged today is support within the GNOME Remote Desktop code for handling graphical remote log-ins...

Linux 6.8 To Add Support For The AMD MicroBlaze V Soft-Core RISC-V Processor

Phoronix - Sat, 01/06/2024 - 21:53
A few months back AMD announced the MicroBlaze V processor as a soft-core RISC-V processor for embedded system use. With Linux 6.8 the necessary DeviceTree support is landing for the AMD MicroBlaze V...

OpenJPH v0.10 JPEG2000 Library Adds AVX-512 Support

Phoronix - Sat, 01/06/2024 - 19:42
OpenJPH as the open-source library implementing JPEG2000 Part-15 (JPH / HTJ2K) support is out with a big feature release...

Google Chrome Adds VA-API Video Acceleration On Wayland

Phoronix - Sat, 01/06/2024 - 19:27
One of the limitations of Google Chrome's Wayland support has been the Video Acceleration API (VA-API) not being supported for GPU-based video acceleration as it's directly targeted the libva-x11 library. But with code merged on Friday to Chromium, libva-drm is now used to allow for working VA-API acceleration on X11 or Wayland...

GNOME's Variable Refresh Rate "VRR" Support Continues Coming Together

Phoronix - Sat, 01/06/2024 - 19:12
For the GNOME desktop among the technologies that will hopefully mature into good shape this year are high dynamic range (HDR) display support as well as variable refresh rate (VRR). When it comes to the VRR support there's been more Mutter progress made in this effort...

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