Open-source News

Google Releases Lyra 1.3 For Advancing This Very Low Bitrate Audio Codec

Phoronix - Fri, 11/11/2022 - 22:00
In early 2021 Google announced Lyra as a very low bitrate codec intended for speech with aims of getting Lyra and AV1 possible for video chats on 56 kbps connections...

AMD P-State EPP Driver Updated For More Power/Performance Control On Linux

Phoronix - Fri, 11/11/2022 - 20:00
Back in September AMD posted the Linux driver patches for P-State EPP as their latest effort to improve the power efficiency of Ryzen and EPYC processors. Sent out this week is now the fourth iteration of those CPU frequency scaling driver patches...

Rust Developers Move Ahead With Preparing To Upstream More Code Into The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Fri, 11/11/2022 - 18:36
With the upcoming Linux 6.1 kernel release there is the initial Rust infrastructure merged for enabling the use of the Rust programming language for future kernel drivers and other kernel code. But that state in Linux 6.1 is the very basics and not yet practical while now a secondary sent of "Rust for Linux" patches have been sent out for enabling more kernel development to happen with Rust...

Pages