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FFmpeg gets new superpowers, Plasma’s switch to Qt6 gets official; what you need to know. Plus we round up the top features coming to Linux 6.3.
March 2, 202319m 32s
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FFmpeg gets new superpowers, Plasma’s switch to Qt6 gets official; what you need to know. Plus we round up the top features coming to Linux 6.3.
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Links:
- Steam Deck one Year Later — The Steam Deck has been about a year on the market now (it started shipping at the end of February 2022). This first anniversary is a good chance to review what has happened since then.
- FFmpeg 6.0 Released — 6.0 was released on 2023-02-27. It is the latest stable FFmpeg release from the 6.0 release branch, which was cut from master on 2023-02-19.
- FFmpeg 6.0 Released With NVIDIA NVENC AV1, VA-API Improvements
- FOSDEM 2023 - Dual presentation: FFmpeg 6 and VLC.js
- Plasma Switches to Qt6 — The master branch for Plasma repos will be made Qt6-only tomorrow.
- Hardware Noise “hwnoise” Tool for Linux 6.3 — hwnoise collects the periodic summary from the osnoise tracer running with *interrupts disabled*. By disabling interrupts, and the scheduling of threads as a consequence, only non-maskable interrupts and hardware-related noise is allowed.
- More Rust Code Readied For Linux 6.3 — In the pull request Miguel Ojeda commented, "more core additions, getting closer to a point where the first Rust modules can be upstreamed."
- EXT4 Getting Direct I/O Performance Improvements With 6.3 — Improved performance for ext4
- Btrfs Enjoys More Performance With Linux 6.3 - Including Some 3~10x Speedups — Some of the performance work is quite juicy, as outlined in today's pull request.
- Btrfs updates for 6.3 - David Sterba
- Linux 6.3 Scheduler Updates Bring Fixes & Minor Optimizations
- RISC-V With Linux 6.3 Lands Optimized String Functions Via Zbb Extension — RISC-V with Linux 6.3 has improved its extension detection and alternative patching infrastructure for dealing with non spec compliant extensions.
Topics
Linux News PodcastLinux Action NewsSteam DeckLinux gamingValvePlasmaKDELinux desktopPC GamingGaming DeviceGPDAya Neo 2Nintendo SwitchFFmpegOpen SourceGPU AccelerationRISC-VMulti-ThreadingFree SoftwareVLCvideo encodingPlasma 5.27Plasma 6Qt 6Qt6QtJean-Baptiste KempfLinux 6.3hwnoiseHardware Noise Toolnoise tracerhardware interruptsschedulingLinux schedulerthreadsRustRust in the kernelEXT4direct I/OperformancefilesystemsSUSEDavid SterbaBtrfsRAID5RAID6Linux 6.2Linux 6.3micro-optimizationsRISC-VRISC-V Extensions