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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...

Wine 9.0-rc4 Released With More Wayland Fixes, Additional Game Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 01/06/2024 - 13:00
After no release candidate of Wine 9.0 was published last week due to the end-of-year holidays, Wine 9.0-rc4 is out as the newest test candidate for this forthcoming stable version to enjoy Windows games and applications on Linux...

Linux Could Experience Unexpected System Reboots When Pairing AMD Ryzen With Firewire

Phoronix - Sat, 01/06/2024 - 05:15
In the land of odd hardware bugs and interesting Linux kernel behavior, a fix was merged today for Linux 6.7 and to be back-ported to existing stable kernel series for dealing with a situation where unexpected system reboots could happen primarily on AMD Ryzen systems when using Firewire (IEEE-1394)...

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