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Intel Media Driver 2023Q2 Preps More For Meteor Lake, More Arc Graphics Fixes

Phoronix - Wed, 08/02/2023 - 18:03
Intel has published their latest quarterly update to the Intel Media Driver open-source VA-API implementation as well as to their oneVPL video processing layer library...

YTP-DL: The Easiest Way to Download Songs from YouTube Videos

Tecmint - Wed, 08/02/2023 - 12:31
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We all love listening to music whether it’s in the gym, at work, or outside, music is part of our life. Everyone has their own

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Steam On Linux Usage Spikes To Nearly 2% In July, Larger Marketshare Than Apple macOS

Phoronix - Wed, 08/02/2023 - 08:10
The Steam Survey results for July 2023 were just published and it points to a large and unexpected jump in the Linux gaming marketshare...

Ubuntu Shifting To A "4/2" Week Cycle For Shipping Stable Kernel Updates

Phoronix - Tue, 08/01/2023 - 23:30
Canonical has aimed to ship Linux kernel stable release updates (SRU) for Ubuntu releases on a three week cycle. That has worked out well overall but has led to delays at times in getting down CVE security fixes and other urgent customer requests. Moving forward Canonical is aiming for a new "4/2" week cycle for kernel SRUs...

Linux 6.6's cpupower Utility Enables New AMD P-State Features

Phoronix - Tue, 08/01/2023 - 21:16
Linux's cpupower utility lives within the Linux kernel source tree for reading and tuning various CPU power settings rather than poking at sysfs files directly or other means of adjusting your processor power-related tunables. With the upcoming Linux 6.6 kernel cycle the cpupower utility is adding support for adjusting new AMD P-State driver features...

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