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SDL 2.30 Released With New API Additions For Steam Use

Phoronix - Fri, 02/02/2024 - 13:00
While all major feature development for the Simple DirectMedia Layer "SDL" is currently focused on SDL 3.0 for this library commonly used by cross-platform games for various hardware/software abstractions, SDL 2.30 released on Thursday as a new point release in the SDL2 series...

Steam On Linux Falls Short Of 2% For January, AMD CPU Adoption On Linux Hits 70.5%

Phoronix - Fri, 02/02/2024 - 08:44
With the start of a new month comes the Steam Survey results for the month prior. For January 2024, the reported Steam on Linux marketshare continued falling just short of the 2% threshold...

Vulkan Video Finally Introduces AV1 Video Decoding Extension

Phoronix - Fri, 02/02/2024 - 03:51
Introduced in April 2021 was the initial Vulkan Video support for a new video encode/decode API built around Vulkan. That initial Vulkan Video support was catered to H.264 and H.265 while finally with today's Vulkan 1.3.277 release there is a new extension introduced for AV1 video decoding...

GNU libmicrohttpd 1.0 Released For Embed-Friendly Web Server

Phoronix - Fri, 02/02/2024 - 01:42
GNU libmicrohttpd version 1.0.0 is out today as the first major release of this C library implementing an easy-to-run HTTP web server that is embed-friendly for use by other applications...

More AMD SEV-SNP Support To Be Upstreamed For Linux 6.9

Phoronix - Fri, 02/02/2024 - 00:08
More of AMD's Secure Encrypted Virtualization Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP) support for memory encrypted VMs is set to make it upstream for the Linux 6.9 kernel coming out toward the middle of the year...

New Features Approved For Fedora 40, Renewed Debate Over Dropping KDE X11 Support

Phoronix - Thu, 02/01/2024 - 23:43
This week the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) signed off on some new features coming for Fedora 40 this April...

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