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New AMD & Intel Sound Support Ready For Playback In Linux 6.7

Phoronix - Sat, 11/04/2023 - 19:04
The Linux 6.7 sound subsystem changes submitted this week by maintainer Takashi Iwai include support for a number of new audio devices/platforms...

Mesa 24.0 Improving Radeon VCE/UVD Video Encoding Quality

Phoronix - Sat, 11/04/2023 - 18:27
Recently there was some tuning in Mesa Git for helping with higher quality Radeon video encoding on Linux for GPUs using Video Core Next (VCN). Similar tuning has now been back-ported for older Radeon GPUs using the VCE encode engine and UVD video decoding...

Linux 6.7 Reducing The Roles For Some Insecure/Obsolete Crypto Algorithms

Phoronix - Sat, 11/04/2023 - 18:18
The crypto subsystem updates for the Linux 6.7 kernel includes the usual churn like various crypto acceleration updates for different SoCs and other routine changes plus is also limiting the role of some insecure and/or obsolete crypto hashing algorithms...

KDE Plasma 6 Alpha Approaches Next Week With The Soft Feature Freeze

Phoronix - Sat, 11/04/2023 - 18:01
The KDE Plasma 6 Alpha release is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, 8 November, along with the soft feature freeze for Plasma 6.0 at that time...

After A Delay, ISA Drivers Will Be Kept Around Until FreeBSD 15

Phoronix - Sat, 11/04/2023 - 12:00
FreeBSD 14.0-RC4 was issued today and as a last minute change they have decided to keep (non-PNP) ISA and GIANT-locked drivers around until FreeBSD 15...

Everybody Hates Linux - officemagazine.net

Google News - Sat, 11/04/2023 - 10:57
Everybody Hates Linux  officemagazine.net

Intel Updates Its Packaged Arc Graphics Driver For Ubuntu

Phoronix - Sat, 11/04/2023 - 07:45
Last year Intel made available a packaged "Arc Graphics Driver" for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and later Ubuntu 23.04 to provide a DKMS-backported kernel driver and packaged Mesa driver to make it easier to use Arc Graphics (DG2/Alchemist) during the phase when the upstream kernel support was still stabilizing and not yet found out-of-the-box on Linux distributions at the time. This week marked another rare update for this packaged driver...

KVM Virtualization With Linux 6.7 Adds LoongArch, Up To 4096 x86 vCPUs

Phoronix - Sat, 11/04/2023 - 02:30
The Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) changes were sent out on Thursday for the Linux 6.7 merge window...

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