AHX is short for the Abyss' Highest eXperience. AHX is from the late 90's and is used for creating Amiga Commodore 64 like synthetic tunes. AHX support on Linux has been available via an XMMS plug-in and similar while now
FFmpeg Lands Support For AHX, ADPCM Silicon Graphics N64 Decoder
AHX is short for the Abyss' Highest eXperience. AHX is from the late 90's and is used for creating Amiga Commodore 64 like synthetic tunes. AHX support on Linux has been available via an XMMS plug-in and similar while now
Qt 6.10 RC Available For Testing With Native PipeWire Audio Back-End
Qt 6.10 is working its way toward release release now in early to mid October. Qt 6.10 had originally been aiming for a release by today but delays during the release cycle have pushed the final release back by a few weeks. But Qt 6.10 is an exciting toolkit update with a native PipeWire audio back-end, Chromium extensions support in the WebEngine, and many other changes.
Some
OBS Studio 32.0 Released With Plugin Manager, NVIDIA RTX Improvements
OBS Studio 32.0 delivers a basic plug-in manager for being able to deliver extra functionality moving forward. Windows and macOS builds also received opt-in automatic crash log uploading.
OBS Studio 32.0 also brings more improvements around NVIDIA RTX software features such as Voice Activity Detection for RTX Audio Effects to help enhance
GNU Coreutils 9.8 Released With New Features
The GNU Coreutils 9.8 release adds SHA3 hashing support to the cksum utility, the nproc utility now respects cgroup v2 configured CPU quotas, the fold utility is now multi-byte character aware, Base58 encoding support with the baseenc command, and other updates.
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RPM 6.0 Released With OpenPGP Improvements & Enforces Signature Checking By Default
RPM 6.0 retains compatibility with RPM v4 and RPM v5 packages but removing support for installing RPM v3 packages. RPM 6.0 introduces new features like supporting multiple OpenPGP signatures per package. There is also support with RPM 6.0 for OpenPGP v6 and PQC keys and signatures. RPM
AMD Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" Performance With ROCm 7.0
With last week's official release of ROCm 7.0 failing to mention the AMD Ryzen AI Max " Strix Halo " SoCs on the supported GPU list, a number of Phoronix readers and from elsewhere were inquiring whether or not Strix Halo works with the new ROCm release. Various AMD folks have mentioned Strix Halo with ROCm, so I decided to run some benchmarks for myself of ROCm 7.0 on Ubuntu Linux with the AMD Ryzen AI Max 395 with Radeon 8060S Graphics on the Framework
A Major Trading Firm Has Open-Sourced The Latest Linux File-System: TernFS
TernFS is a distributed file-system for dealing with reading and writing large immutable files -- immutable in the context that they are typically not modified after
Linux 6.18 Adding A New Power Savings Option For The Intel Graphics Driver
The new addition in drm-xe-next worth mentioning is the SLPC "slpc_power_profile" sysfs interface. This allows manipulating the Single Loop Power Controller (SLPC) between its base
Qt Creator 18 Beta Brings Development Container Support
The big new feature of Qt Creator 18 is adding support for development containers. The development containers feature of Qt Creator 18 is described as:
"Qt Creator 18 adds support for development containers. It detects a "devcontainer.json" file in your project directory and creates a Docker container for it. You can let Qt Creator auto-detect kits or specify
Vulkan 1.4.327 Introduces A New Valve Vendor Extension
The new Vulkan 1.4.327 extension is VK_VALVE_video_encode_rgb_conversion that comes thanks to Valve's engaging work around Linux and the open-source community. VK_VALVE_video_encode_rgb_conversion builds on the VK_KHR_video_encode_queue extension of Vulkan Video