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In addition to the HDMI Forum announcing the HDMI 2.2 specification for release in the first half of this year, VESA also took to CES 2025 to announce their forthcoming DisplayPort 2.1b standard...

The HDMI Forum used CES for today announcing the HDMI 2.2 specification that will be available to HDMI 2.x adopters in the first half of the calendar year...

SteamOS moving from Steam Deck to more handhelds gives me hope for better anti-cheat compatibility  GamingOnLinux

Mecha Comet is a modular Linux handheld coming soon to Kickstarter for $159  Liliputing

This Linux distro could let your old laptop 'shine on' after Windows 10's sunset  ZDNet

Bluestar Linux 6.12.8 comes with the KDE Plasma 6.2.5 bugfix and several package updates  Notebookcheck.net

Following last year's launch of Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 powered laptops, Qualcomm is using CES 2025 this week in Las Vegas for promoting the Snapdragon X Series for mini desktop form factor PCs. But the Linux support and performance out of these forthcoming Snapdragon X Platform mini PCs remain to be seen...

Qualcomm Bringing Snapdragon X Series To Mini PCs For As Little As ~$600 USD  Phoronix

12 Hidden ChromeOS Features Every Chromebook User Should Know About  SlashGear

Firefox 134 Available With Experimental HTML "autocorrect" Attribute  Phoronix

Mozilla has published the Firefox 134.0 release binaries today ahead of their official release tomorrow. This first Firefox update of 2025 brings a few new features to Linux users and those on other platforms...

Forums PC Discussion - The biggest threat to Windows is Steam  VGChartz

Kero Quest 64 looks like a classic Nintendo 64 / PS1 game and it's coming to Linux / Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

Slackware-Based Absolute Linux Has Been Discontinued  info-mods.com

Mozilla Firefox 134 Is Out with Support for Touchpad Hold Gestures on Linux  9to5Linux

NVIDIA compiler engineers have spent the past several months working on a proposed GCC option -flto-partition=locality for having the compiler optimize the code layout for locality between callees and callers as part of the link-time optimization (LTO) process. For some workloads NVIDIA is finding this -flto-partition=locality compiler option being of significant help for bettering the CPU performance...

Discord Canary on Linux breaks Wayland screen-sharing support for now  GamingOnLinux

Intel Announces Core Ultra 200H / Core Ultra 200HX Series  Phoronix

Intel used the start of CES 2025 for announcing the newest Arrow Lake processors for the Core Ultra 200H and Core Utra 200HX mobile processors...

Along with other recent Linux kernel patches around atomic write support, a set of Device Mapper (DM) patches were posted today for implementing said functionality...