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Arch Linux Installer Preparing FIDO2 Support For Handling Disk Encryption

Phoronix - Wed, 05/18/2022 - 21:30
The Arch Linux installer "Archinstall" that makes it simple to quickly and easily get this popular distribution installed has prepared a new release candidate where they are introducing FIDO2 support...

Linux Kernel Patches Posted For USB Support With Realtek RTW88 WiFi Driver

Phoronix - Wed, 05/18/2022 - 20:00
Back in 2019 Realtek contributed the open-source "RTW88" WiFi driver to the Linux kernel for supporting their newer wireless chipsets on Linux. To date the mainline driver has just supported their PCI-based WiFi adapters while a patch series now out for review extends the driver to supporting their newer USB-specific chipsets...

Intel Releases SVT-AV1 v1.1 As It Continues Advancing Open-Source AV1 Encoding

Phoronix - Wed, 05/18/2022 - 19:03
It was just shy of one month ago that Intel and AOMedia released SVT-AV1 v1.0 and now Intel engineers have released SVT-AV1 v1.1 as the newest feature update to this CPU-based, open-source AV1 video encoder...

Lars Knoll Leaving The Qt Company, Starting New Chapter Outside Qt

Phoronix - Wed, 05/18/2022 - 17:47
After 25 years being heavily involved in the Qt toolkit development, Lars Knoll announced today he is leaving The Qt Company where he currently serves as CTO and also largely departing from active work within the Qt community to "try out something else" moving forward...

Valve's Gamescope Compositor Merges NVIDIA Image Scaling Support

Phoronix - Wed, 05/18/2022 - 17:35
Valve's Vulkan-powered Gamescope Wayland compositor has merged support for NVIDIA Image Scaling...

Qualcomm Exploring Bootloader-Based Hibernation For Linux

Phoronix - Wed, 05/18/2022 - 17:25
Qualcomm engineers are exploring bootloader-based hibernation in order to improve the user experience when restoring from a hibernated state...

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