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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...

Google Chrome Adds VA-API Video Acceleration On Wayland  Phoronix

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...

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...

Linus Benedict Torvalds: Hero of the open-source community  The Business Standard

Steam Deck and Linux Gaming Compatibility: A Snapshot from Early 2024  BNN Breaking

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

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)...

As of January 2024 - 75 of the Top 100 most played Steam games work on Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

As of January 2024 - 75 of the Top 100 most played Steam games work on Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

Cryptominer-spreading PyPI packages target Linux systems  SC Media

AMD's FPGA Plans, Linux And Cars  PC Perspective

Is Linux On The Rise?  iProgrammer

A change merged today for Mesa 24.0 is yielding much better Vulkan ray-tracing performance for the Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" across a number of games...

How to save File in Linux.. | by Hariom Mishra | Jan, 2024  Medium

Canonical To Work On Improving Snap Support Across Linux Distributions  Phoronix

It looks like 2024 could bring improved support for the Snap app sandboxing/packaging format across Linux distributions to better the overall experience of this Flatpak alternative outside the confines of Ubuntu...

AMD Solidifies Linux Support with New Zen 5 Kernel Patches  BNN Breaking

AMD Zen 5 CPU Patches In Linux Confirm Next-Gen Architecture As “Family 26”  Wccftech

With Intel's 5th Gen Xeon Scalable "Emerald Rapids" processors that were released last month, in addition to the power efficiency improvements, faster DDR5 memory support, and other enhancements, one of the other notable enhancements talked up by Intel was improved AVX-512 support. Here are some benchmarks using the flagship Intel Xeon Platinum 8592+ looking at the performance and thermal/clock/power metrics when toggling AVX-512 support.