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MythTV 34 Released For Open-Source DVR/PVR

Phoronix - Sat, 02/10/2024 - 05:19
In an era of Internet streaming digital video recorders (DVR) / personal video recorder (PVR) software isn't nearly as popular as it was in the past, but the long-used open-source MythTV software is out with its first major update in one year...

Linux Patch Pending To Fix Support For The Transmeta Crusoe CPU

Phoronix - Sat, 02/10/2024 - 01:21
While the Linux kernel has seen increased activity around dropping old/unused hardware drivers and other support, for old hardware that is still proven to be used on upstream Linux kernel releases does stick around and even will see the occasional fix... The latest example of that is a fix on the way for restoring Linux kernel support for the Transmeta Crusoe, the x86-compatible processor released back in 2000...

The Ongoing Open-Source Work To Enable Webcam Support On Recent Intel Laptops

Phoronix - Sat, 02/10/2024 - 00:17
Webcamera support on recent generations of Intel laptops have tended to be a mess due to the Intel IPU6 requiring an out-of-tree kernel driver and a proprietary user-space component. But fortunately thanks to the work of Linar and Red Hat on a "SoftISP" implementation within libcamera, it's becoming possible to leverage these recent MIPI-based webcameras on an open-source software stack...

Intel Arrow Lake Graphics Support Ready For Linux 6.9

Phoronix - Fri, 02/09/2024 - 23:34
Along with the recently merged Intel OpenGL and Vulkan driver support for Arrow Lake next-generation Core processors with Mesa 24.1, it looks like the i915 kernel graphics driver support for Arrow Lake will be all-set with the upcoming Linux 6.9 kernel cycle...

Fedora Atomic Desktops Born Out Of Fedora Silverblue Success

Phoronix - Fri, 02/09/2024 - 22:57
Born out of the success of Fedora Silverblue and the other Fedora immutable variants relying on RPM-OSTree, Fedora has announced Fedora Atomic Desktops as the new branding for these spins...

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