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Intel engineers have released their FFmpeg Cartwheel 2023Q4 release, the quarterly set of updates to the FFmpeg multimedia library that they are still working to get upstreamed where appropriate but for now is a convenient home to all of their interesting FFmpeg patches from improved video acceleration for Intel graphics hardware to neural network features still being developed and other patches that aren't yet ready for inclusion into upstream FFmpeg...

Along with the Linux 6.8 power management updates, maintainer Rafael Wysocki at Intel also sent in the ACPI updates for this next kernel version. While the ACPI changes for the kernel are often just routine churn, this cycle it's bringing a new feature: device enumeration for CSI-2 and MIPI DisCo for Imaging support. This will allow MIPI cameras moving forward to be enumerated via the platform firmware on ACPI-based systems...

Linux 6.8 To Support ACPI-Based Enumeration Of CSI-2 / MIPI Cameras  Phoronix

Coming out of Saarland University is Vcc, the Vulkan Clang Compiler. Vcc provides an "honest attempt to bring the entire C/C++ language family to Vulkan" as an interesting new compiler...

How to install Linux  Tom's Guide

Here's how to get started with Linux in 2024  Medium

App Fleet: Open-Source App to Automate Your Workspace on Linux  It's FOSS News

Google may be planning to ship a rare upgrade to Tensor-powered Pixel phones  Android Authority

The latest notable feature addition for Mesa 24.0 worth mentioning is to NVK, the open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver that works with the Nouveau DRM kernel driver for providing increasingly robust Vulkan API support on this alternative to NVIDIA's proprietary graphics driver...

Tensor-powered Pixels rumored to receive rare update  PhoneArena

Beyond the usual new wired/wireless network hardware support and the other routine churn in the big Linux networking subsystem, the Linux 6.8 kernel is bringing some key improvements to the core networking code that can yield up to a ~40% improvement for TCP performance when encountering many concurrent network connections...

Linux 6.8 Network Optimizations Can Boost TCP Performance For Many Concurrent Connections By ~40%  Phoronix

5 Bash Script Examples to Help You Learn Linux Programming  MUO - MakeUseOf

Arch Linux is finally going the way of Fedora and others in making Dbus-Broker its default D-Bus daemon implementation...

Arch Linux Will Now Use Dbus-Broker As Its Default D-Bus Daemon  Phoronix

Thanks to Valve's open-source developers, the Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" has landed experimental support for transfer queues for facilitating SDMA image copies...

System76's New Linux Workstation Has Updated AMD Threadripper CPUs  How-To Geek

System76 Thelio Ramps Up AI & Creator Performance With New AMD Ryzen Threadripper CPUs  Phoronix

System76 has opted to offer new AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series processors in their Thelio Major desktop line-up to provide for greater performance from AI and creator workloads to all common code compilation and other tasks leveraging many CPU cores/threads. The new System76 Thelio Major powered by Zen 4 Threadripper is being shown off this week at CES 2024 in Las Vegas at AMD's booth. A review on the new Thelio Major workstation will also be forthcoming on Phoronix...

7 Ways to Append Text to a File on Linux  How-To Geek