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Linux 6.17 Sound Code Prepares For Upcoming AMD Hardware

Phoronix - Sat, 07/26/2025 - 21:47
Linux sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai of SUSE submitted already the sound code feature changes ready for Linux 6.17...

FFmpeg 8.0 Preparing For Release In August With Many Great Features

Phoronix - Sat, 07/26/2025 - 19:01
We are just a few weeks out from seeing the release of the FFmpeg 8.0 multimedia library with many new features and improvements for this widely-used open-source software...

Linux's Modern NTFS Driver Will Now Correctly Handle Symlinks Created On Windows

Phoronix - Sat, 07/26/2025 - 18:44
One of the nice Linux kernel accomplishments during the pandemic was getting the NTFS3 driver upstreamed for that modern NTFS file-system read/write driver developed by Paragon Software. In recent times that NTFS3 driver has been seeing occasional fixes and for the Linux 6.17 kernel -- and perhaps then back-ported to existing kernels -- are some notable fixes for those relying on drives formatted with this Microsoft file-system...

Linux 6.17 To Support Arm's BRBE

Phoronix - Sat, 07/26/2025 - 18:33
The ARM64 (AArch64) architecture updates have been submitted ahead of the imminent Linux 6.17 merge window...

Intel oneDNN 3.9 Making More Preparations For Xe3, Nova Lake & Diamond Rapids

Phoronix - Sat, 07/26/2025 - 18:19
Released on Friday was a new version of the oneDNN deep neural network library maintained by Intel and the UXL Foundation. This library used by various deep learning applications continues preparing for upcoming Intel CPUs and GPUs...

KDE Plasma 6.5 Adds Notifications For Low Printer Ink Levels

Phoronix - Sat, 07/26/2025 - 12:00
One week ago in the KDE Plasma land it was talking about rounded bottom corners for windows by default while this week in the KDE Plasma space is another long overdue feature: notifications for Plasma around low printer ink cartridge levels. The upcoming KDE Plasma 6.5 will finally feature built-in notifications on printer ink levels running low...

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