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Linux 4.14 LTS Reaches End-Of-Life After Six Years

Phoronix - Wed, 01/10/2024 - 23:06
Linux 4.14 debuted at the end of 2017 with exciting features at the time like AMD Vega improvements, working on the since-failed Intel Cannonlake graphics, Zstd compression support, and more. The kernel has advanced a heck of a lot since then and Linux 6.7 recently debuted. It's now time that Linux 4.14 LTS has been declared end-of-life...

A 2024 Discussion Whether To Convert The Linux Kernel From C To Modern C++

Phoronix - Wed, 01/10/2024 - 19:42
A six year old Linux kernel mailing list discussion has been reignited over the prospects of converting the Linux kernel to supporting modern C++ code...

Linux 6.8 Perf Tools Add Support For AMD Zen 4 Memory Controller Events

Phoronix - Wed, 01/10/2024 - 19:17
The tooling changes around the perf subsystem have been submitted for the Linux 6.8 kernel merge window and provide some new hardware features and other new perf profiling capabilities...

Intel FFmpeg Cartwheel Updated With Meteor Lake Support & More DNN Functionality

Phoronix - Wed, 01/10/2024 - 19:00
Intel engineers have released their FFmpeg Cartwheel 2023Q4 release, the quarterly set of updates to the FFmpeg multimedia library that they are still working to get upstreamed where appropriate but for now is a convenient home to all of their interesting FFmpeg patches from improved video acceleration for Intel graphics hardware to neural network features still being developed and other patches that aren't yet ready for inclusion into upstream FFmpeg...

Linux 6.8 To Support ACPI-Based Enumeration Of CSI-2 / MIPI Cameras

Phoronix - Wed, 01/10/2024 - 18:50
Along with the Linux 6.8 power management updates, maintainer Rafael Wysocki at Intel also sent in the ACPI updates for this next kernel version. While the ACPI changes for the kernel are often just routine churn, this cycle it's bringing a new feature: device enumeration for CSI-2 and MIPI DisCo for Imaging support. This will allow MIPI cameras moving forward to be enumerated via the platform firmware on ACPI-based systems...

Vcc Announced As The Vulkan Clang Compiler

Phoronix - Wed, 01/10/2024 - 18:31
Coming out of Saarland University is Vcc, the Vulkan Clang Compiler. Vcc provides an "honest attempt to bring the entire C/C++ language family to Vulkan" as an interesting new compiler...

How to install Linux - Tom's Guide

Google News - Wed, 01/10/2024 - 16:30
How to install Linux  Tom's Guide

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