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libcamera 0.4 Released For Open-Source Camera Stack/Framework

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 December, 2024

A new release of libcamera is now available for this open-source camera stack solution that is increasingly used now for getting newer web cameras working on Linux and similar. With the libcamera 0.4 release there is improved hardware support and other enhancements to this camera framework solution...

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Linux 6.14 AMD PMF Driver To Handle Custom BIOS Inputs

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 December, 2024

The AMD Platform Management Framework "PMF" driver is set to see some enhancements come the Linux 6.14 merge window...

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FFmpeg Landing A Number Of Improvements For HDR

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 December, 2024

The widely-used FFmpeg multimedia library saw a number of commits land yesterday for enhancing the support around High Dynamic Range (HDR) content...

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GIMP 3.0 RC1 Makes It Into Ubuntu 25.04

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 December, 2024

As a follow-up to the article about Ubuntu 25.04 preparing for GIMP 3.0 in its repositories, this past week finally brought the GIMP 3.0 release candidate into the Ubuntu 25.04 "Plucky Puffin" repository...

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ASRock Challenger Arc Graphics B570 Arrives For Linux Testing

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 December, 2024

The Intel Arc Graphics B570 graphics card isn't hitting retailers until January and the review embargo doesn't expire until then, but fair game now are pictures/video of the Arc B570 hardware... The ASRock Challenger Arc Graphics B570 arrived today for Linux testing at Phoronix in the coming weeks for this second Battlemage graphics card...

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Raspberry Pi 500 Delivers Great Performance, Convenient Upgrade To The Raspberry Pi 400

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 December, 2024

Four years ago already the Raspberry Pi 400 was announced as a Raspberry Pi keyboard computer built around the Raspberry Pi 4, passively-cooled, and all packaged up nicely in a keyboard form factor. Announced earlier this month was the Raspberry Pi 500 as the successor and now built around the Raspberry Pi 5. For $90 USD this keyboard computer is a very versatile and convenient compact Linux PC.

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Linux 6.14 Looks To Land Rust PCI / Platform Device Driver Support

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 December, 2024

The patch series in the works for a while to provide the necessary kernel abstractions for the Rust programming language to actually implement real device drivers looks like it will finally premiere in the Linux 6.14 kernel cycle...

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Ikey Doherty's Serpent OS Linux Distribution Goes Into Alpha

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 December, 2024

It's been a few months since hearing anything new out of Serpent OS, the original Linux distribution led by Ikey Doherty, who started Solus Linux and also was involved with Intel's Clear Linux. As a Christmas surprise, Serpent OS has now reached the alpha stage of development...

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Faster AES-GCM & AES-XTS Crypto For AMD CPUs With Linux 6.14

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 December, 2024

Eric Biggers of Google who has pursued countless CPU optimizations within the Linux kernel's crypto subsystem over the years has some noteworthy optimizations coming for AMD processors with the upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel cycle...