SVT-AV1 3.0 Released With Faster CPU-Based AV1 Encoding

SVT-AV1 as the open-source, CPU-based AV1 encoder that was started by Intel software engineers and now led by the Alliance for Open Media is out this week with the big SVT-AV1 3.0 release. Here's some details on SVT-AV1 3.0 as well as some initial performance benchmarks for this speedy AV1 encoder, especially on modern Intel and AMD processors...
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An 'unfortunate incident' means the second point release of Ubuntu 24.04 won't arrive this week omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/02/ubuntu…

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Ubuntu 24.04.2 Delayed, Won’t Be Released This Week

If you were expecting Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS to drop tomorrow, I come bearing some bad news: the release has been delayed by a week. Canonical’s Utkarsh Gupta reports that an ‘unfortunate i...

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Marvel Rivals gets a low-quality UI fix for Bazzite Linux gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/marv…

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Marvel Rivals gets a low-quality UI fix for Bazzite Linux

Nice to see dedicated support like this from a massive game. Marvel Rivals had a small update that came with a fix for Bazzite Linux.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Wayland Colour Management and HDR Protocol finally merged gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/wayl…

#Linux #HDR #Wayland #OpenSource

Wayland Colour Management and HDR Protocol finally merged

After years of work across many areas, lots of discussions and more work - the Wayland Colour Management and HDR Protocol has been merged!

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Google Releases AOM-AV1 3.12 With More Performance Optimizations

For those preferring the AOM-AV1 open-source AV1 video encoder over SVT-AV1, Rav1e, or other AV1 encoders, Google this week unveiled AOM-AV1 3.12...
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Intel PMT Telemetry Now Available For Battlemage Graphics Cards

The Intel PMT open-source software support has now been updated for Platform Monitoring Technology Telemetry with the new Battlemage discrete graphics cards...
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Bazzite the popular SteamOS-like Linux gets expanded NVIDIA support in Beta gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/bazz…

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Bazzite the popular SteamOS-like Linux gets NVIDIA support in Beta

If you're wanting something similar to SteamOS right now that has much wider hardware support for your gaming handhelds like the Lenovo Legion Go, ASUS ROG Ally, GPD, Ayaneo or even your laptop / desktop then Bazzite is likely one of the best choices…

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Raspberry Pi 5 gets a 16GB model now on sale gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/rasp…

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Raspberry Pi 5 gets a 16GB model now on sale

Raspberry Pi 5 has expanded with a new 16GB edition joining the 2GB, 4GB and 8GB models for those who need that extra bit of room. Ready for you to run more intensive applications, games and Linux distributions.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Steam / Steam Deck Beta update brings improvements for Startup Animations, Steam Input and more gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/stea…

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Steam / Steam Deck Beta update brings improvements for Startup Animations, Steam Input and more

Valve updated the Steam Client for Desktop and Steam Deck with a new Beta release, so here's what you need to know.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Marvell Begins Working On Linux Support For Their Next-Gen Octeon "CN20K" DPU

For Marvell's line of Octeon line of data processing units (DPUs) and baseband processors, it looks like a new DPU is on the way with the CN20K silicon seeing work on enabling Linux support...
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100+ Linux Benchmarks Of Intel Arrow Lake With New BIOS / 0x114 CPU Microcode

This past week Intel published an Intel Core Ultra 200S Series "Arrow Lake" performance status update following mixed reviews since launch around the Arrow Lake gaming performance that were inconsistent with Intel's internal findings. Among Intel's findings detailed in their report this past week were some new BIOS performance optimizations, some misconfigured per…
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Ikey Doherty's Serpent OS Linux Distribution Goes Into Alpha

It's been a few months since hearing anything new out of Serpent OS, the original Linux distribution led by Ikey Doherty, who started Solus Linux and also was involved with Intel's Clear Linux. As a Christmas surprise, Serpent OS has now reached the alpha stage of development...
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Ikey Doherty's Serpent OS Linux Distribution Goes Into Alpha

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Linux 6.14 Looks To Land Rust PCI / Platform Device Driver Support

The patch series in the works for a while to provide the necessary kernel abstractions for the Rust programming language to actually implement real device drivers looks like it will finally premiere in the Linux 6.14 kernel cycle...
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Mold 2.35 Released With Big Endian ARM64 Support

Rui Ueyama announced the release today of Mold 2.35 as the latest iteration of this high speed linker alternative to the linkers available from the GCC and LLVM toolchain projects...
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Valve may be working on a new kind of Steam Machine gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/valv…

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Valve may be working on a new kind of Steam Machine

There's a whole bunch of hints and speculation going around right now, showing that Valve may be working towards a new kind of Steam Machine.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Flathub to become a self-sustaining entity and they're looking to hire someone to help gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/flat…

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Flathub to become a self-sustaining entity and they're looking to hire someone to help

Flathub has positioned itself as pretty much the go-to place for Linux apps, since it works across many distributions and is even on the Steam Deck.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Epic science fantasy roguelike Caves of Qud 1.0 is out now and it's a wild ride gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/epic…

#CavesofQud #IndieGames #Roguelikes #Steam #LinuxGaming #SteamDeck

Epic science fantasy roguelike Caves of Qud 1.0 is out now and it's a wild ride

Caves of Qud is a proper roguelike, with deep science fantasy lore and after 15+ years of development it is finally finished with the 1.0 release now available.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

The Thing: Remastered from Nightdive Studios is out now gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/the-…

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The Thing: Remastered from Nightdive Studios is out now

Bit of a surprise! Nightdive Studios launched The Thing: Remastered, an upgrade of the cult-classic survival horror game. It launches with a Steam Deck Verified status, so you'll be all good on Desktop Linux too.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Intel Idle Support For Granite Rapids D Going Into Linux 6.13

The "intel_idle" driver provides CPU idle time management for Intel processors on Linux for helping to put the processor into low-power states in conjunction with the MWAIT instruction. With the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel, the Granite Rapids D support for the Intel Idle driver is set to be merged...
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Hyprland 0.45 Compositor Smooths Round Edges, Window Snapping For Floating Windows

Hyprland 0.45 released today as the newest version of this Wayland compositor focused on being an independent, very customizable, and dynamic tiling compositor...
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Sony say their PSN account requirement on PC is so you can enjoy their games 'safely' gamingonlinux.com/2024/11/sony…

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Sony say their PSN account requirement on PC is so you can enjoy their games 'safely'

Sony forcing you to have a PlayStation Network account for all their recent PC releases hasn't been well liked, and they of course have no plans to back down on it.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Debian 12.8 Released With Many Bug Fixes & Security Updates

Debian 12.8 is out today as the latest media refresh for the "Bookworm" release with numerous security fixes along with other general bug fixes included as part of the assortment of package updates...
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