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Recovering audio from a lost format with open source

opensource.com - Sun, 07/12/2020 - 15:00

Back in the early 2000s, we made a family decision to upgrade the living room stereo. The equipment in place at the time was based on a collection of gear that I had purchased some 20 years earlier when I first had a steady post-university income.


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Linus Torvalds: "I Hope AVX512 Dies A Painful Death"

Phoronix - Sun, 07/12/2020 - 08:39
Linux creator Linus Torvalds had some choice words today on Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (AVX-512) found on select Intel processors...

Synopsys DesignWare ARC HS CPUs Now Supported By GNU C Library

Phoronix - Sat, 07/11/2020 - 23:34
The toolchain support for the Synopsys DesignWare ARC HS processors is now ironed out with the GNU C Library (glibc) finally mainlining the ARC port...

Linus Torvalds' Initial Comment On Rust Code Prospects Within The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Sat, 07/11/2020 - 21:46
Kernel developers appear to be eager to debate the merits of potentially allowing Rust code within the Linux kernel. Linus Torvalds himself has made some initial remarks on the topic ahead of the Linux Plumbers 2020 conference where the matter will be discussed at length...

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