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AMD Adds Secure Video Playback To Their Open-Source Linux Driver

Phoronix - Thu, 11/05/2020 - 01:46
In addition to Mesa 20.3 seeing RadeonSI support for EGL protected surfaces backed by the AMDGPU Linux kernel driver with Trusted Memory Zone support, AMD's graphics driver developers have now added support for secure/protected video acceleration playback to their Mesa driver code...

LXQt 0.16 Released For Lightweight Qt Linux Desktop

Phoronix - Wed, 11/04/2020 - 23:00
If the recent releases of KDE Plasma 5.20 and GNOME 3.38 didn't fulfill your wishes for a dream Linux desktop and are looking for something lightweight, LXQt 0.16 is out today...

C++20 Modules Compiler Code Under Review, Could Still Land For GCC 11

Phoronix - Wed, 11/04/2020 - 22:07
With C++20 one of the major features added is that of modules as a modern alternative to that of conventional C++ header files for packages. The C++20 modules code for the GNU Compiler Collection that has been in the works for several years is now under review and could potentially still land for the GCC 11 release next year...

Dell Adding Hardware Privacy Driver For Linux

Phoronix - Wed, 11/04/2020 - 20:30
Beginning in Dell's 2021 laptop models they are providing hardware-based "privacy buttons" to disable microphone and camera support. In preparations for more Dell laptops coming to market with these buttons, a Dell privacy driver is being prepared for the Linux kernel...

Qt 6.0's Shiny New Features For Qt Quick 3D

Phoronix - Wed, 11/04/2020 - 19:00
One of the areas of the Qt 6.0 toolkit with the greatest number of improvements is on the Qt Quick 3D front...

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