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Firmware Loader Makes It Possible To Use Old Samsung TV Cameras On Linux

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 March

Samsung used to sell web cameras for their smart TVs for use with living room video chatting with the likes of Skype. Samsung no longer supports Skype on their TVs (goodbye Skype!) or these devices but if you happen to have one laying around or buy one used for cheap, it's now possible to use these Samsung TV cameras as a standard web camera under Linux...

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Linux 6.15 PCI Brings New Drivers For Agilex PCIe Controller & AMD Multimedia DMA Bridge

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 March

All of the PCI subsystem feature updates have now been merged for the Linux 6.15 kernel cycle. This includes some new drivers from AMD and Intel-Altera as well as various other PCI changes...

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Xiph.Org's Theora libtheora 1.2 Officially Released: 16 Years After v1.0

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 March

Earlier this month brought the Theora 1.2 beta release coming 16 years after Theora's libtheora 1.0 release for this video codec designed by Xiph.Org for use with Ogg audio. Theora is derived from the now rather ancient VP3 video codec, but for those continuing to enjoy content in Theora format, today brings the version 1.2 library...

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KDE Plasma 6.3.4 To Fix The "Most Common" Crash, Other Crash Fixes Coming Too

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 March

Within This Week in Plasma, KDE developer Nate Graham notes the great excitement in KDE bug fixing this week/ KDE developers have lowered their HI/VHI priority bug counts down to "their lowest numbers ever numbers" in addition to working on new Plasma 6.4 features over the past few days...

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Debian 13 "Trixie" Freeze Process Begins

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 March

The Debian release team announced that the Debian 13 "Trixie" transition and toolchain freeze began on-schedule this month...

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EXT4 Better Hardened Against Maliciously-Fuzzed File-Systems

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 March

Ted Ts'o at Google has sent out the EXT4 file-system updates for the in-development Linux 6.15 kernel...

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Ubuntu 25.04 Beta Delivering Some Nice Performance Improvements Over Ubuntu 24.10

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 March

Ubuntu 25.04 beta is set to be released today and thus this week I've begun testing out the latest Ubuntu 25.04 builds on different systems for seeing how this six-month Ubuntu Linux update is looking compared to the prior Ubuntu 24.10 release. In this first Ubuntu 25.04 beta benchmarking article is a look at the performance using an AMD Ryzen 9000 series desktop and Radeon RX 7900 XTX graphics.

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Akamai Now Providing The Hosting Infrastructure For Kernel.org

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 March

It's not only FreeDesktop.org that has been transitioning to new infrastructure this month but separately, Kernel.org is now receiving hosting and CDN needs provided by Akamai...

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Zstd 1.5.7 Lands In Linux 6.15 For Better Performance & APIs For Intel QAT Acceleration

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 March

Linux 6.15 keeps getting more exciting... The big Zstd update has landed! The in-kernel Zstandard compression code is finally re-based against the newer upstream state that brings better performance as well as new APIs for allowing Intel QAT acceleration by Intel hardware offering QuickAssist Technology. This Zstd code is relied upon by Btrfs transparent file-system compression and other in-kernel users for compression/decompression...

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