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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...

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