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FreeRDP 3.0 Released With WebSocket Transport, Relative Mouse Movement & More

Phoronix - Wed, 12/13/2023 - 21:25
FreeRDP 3.0 stable was released today as this open-source implementation of the Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) for allowing nice remote access support...

It Looks Like AMD Zen 5 SoCs Will Support ACPI PHAT

Phoronix - Wed, 12/13/2023 - 19:58
A few months ago I wrote about AMD Linux engineers working on ACPI PHAT support for the Linux kernel. This week new patches around Linux ACPI PHAT handling have been posted with further confirmation of this functionality coming to "future" AMD SoCs...

Linux To Drop Support For 15 Year Old, Never-Shipped Intel "Carillo Ranch"

Phoronix - Wed, 12/13/2023 - 19:44
With Intel's very timely upstream Linux hardware support going back years, they typically start on the upstream hardware enablement well in advance of the product's planned public launch. On a number of occasions this has meant adding support to the Linux kernel for hardware that never ends up being released to consumers. There's been recent cases like the Thunder Bay support that was dropped from the kernel after it became clear that the SoC would never ship to now a more extreme case of a driver being in the mainline kernel for 15 years to support never-released hardware...

Cold Trip Points Proposed For The Linux Kernel's Thermal Handling

Phoronix - Wed, 12/13/2023 - 19:29
The Linux kernel's thermal driver has the obvious notion of hot and critically-hot trip points while to this point there hasn't been the opposite: cold trip points (events) but that's finally been proposed as we approach the end of 2023...

SVT-AV1 1.8 Brings More Performance Improvements Plus ARM Neon SIMD Optimizations

Phoronix - Wed, 12/13/2023 - 19:13
SVT-AV1 v1.8 was released this week as the newest version of this open-source AV1 video encoder originally started by Intel and continues to be developed by Intel engineers in cooperation with the Alliance for Open Media. As with most releases, optimizing this CPU-based AV1 encoder's performance continues to be a key priority...

3 Ways to Change a User Default Shell in Linux

Tecmint - Wed, 12/13/2023 - 15:00
The post 3 Ways to Change a User Default Shell in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

The shell, or command-line interface, is a crucial component of the Linux operating system, providing users with a powerful way to interact with the system.

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