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Fedora 42 RISC-V Released - Builds For SiFive HiFive Premier P550 & Milk-V Megrez

Phoronix - Wed, 04/16/2025 - 20:35
Following yesterday's official Fedora 42 release, Fedora 42 for RISC-V is now available. The delay in the Fedora 42 RISC-V builds is due to RISC-V not yet being a primary architecture and the RISC-V builds being unofficial and produced by the Fedora community...

FFmpeg's FFV1 Vulkan Decoder Now 3x Faster On AMD GPUs

Phoronix - Wed, 04/16/2025 - 18:43
Merged last month to the widely-used FFmpeg open-source multimedia library was an initial Vulkan-based decoder for FFV1 for the FF Video 1 lossless video coding format. Should you be interested in using this FFV1 decoder on AMD GPUs, there's a reported 3x performance improvement with the newest code...

More Radeon RX 9000 "RDNA4" Open-Source Driver Improvements Merged For Mesa 25.1

Phoronix - Wed, 04/16/2025 - 18:30
Additional improvements for AMD GFX12 as the graphics engine IP of RDNA4 graphics with the Radeon RX 9000 series have been merged ahead of this quarter's Mesa 25.1 feature release...

Qt Ramps Up Its AI Coding Assistant Capabilities

Phoronix - Wed, 04/16/2025 - 18:20
Over the past two years Qt has been working to embrace generative AI for enhanced coding capabilities within Qt Creator for Qt/QML/C++ applications. It started with GitHub Copilot integration and has been continuing well beyond that and today marks the debut of the Qt AI Assistant v0.9...

4 Ways to Check Plugged USB Device Name in Linux

Tecmint - Wed, 04/16/2025 - 13:00
The post 4 Ways to Check Plugged USB Device Name in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

As a newbie, one of the many things you should master in Linux is identifying the devices attached to your

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fuser – Find and Kill Processes by File, Directory, or Port

Tecmint - Wed, 04/16/2025 - 12:00
The post fuser – Find and Kill Processes by File, Directory, or Port first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

One of the most important tasks in Linux systems administration is process management, which involves several operations such as monitoring,

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