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OpenWrt 23.05 Released With Rust Package Support, MbedTLS Replaces WolfSSL

Phoronix - Fri, 10/13/2023 - 21:08
OpenWrt 23.05 has been released as the newest feature release for this embedded Linux distribution that is popular for use on networking devices...

AMD Advanced Media Acceleration "AMA" 1.0 SDK Released

Phoronix - Fri, 10/13/2023 - 20:35
AMD has published the Advanced Media Acceleration (AMA) v1.0 SDK as a software stack aimed for hardware video acceleration and capable of high density real-time transcoding. The AMD AMA SDK integrates with the likes of the open-source FFmpeg and GStreamer projects for fitting nicely in the Linux software ecosystem as well as sporting its own C-based API...

PipeWire 1.0 RC2 Released With Fixes, Improved Rate Switching

Phoronix - Fri, 10/13/2023 - 20:21
Following last week's PipeWire 1.0 release candidate, today a second release candidate was published as part of the project's plan for reaching v1.0 before the end of the year for this widely-used Linux audio/video streams server that is a viable replacement to the likes of PulseAudio and JACK...

Mozilla Might Finally Enable Firefox's Wayland Backend Soon

Phoronix - Fri, 10/13/2023 - 18:54
While some Linux distributions like Fedora and Arch are enabling the native Wayland back-end for Firefox by default, upstream Firefox continues to not enable this Wayland support as part of their default builds. But -- at long last -- that might finally change soon...

Qt Creator 12 Beta Brings Integrated Compiler Explorer

Phoronix - Fri, 10/13/2023 - 18:45
Following this week's release of Qt 6.6, the Qt Creator 12 beta has been released for this Qt and C++ focused integrated development environment (IDE)...

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