Software: GStreamer, PL/R, and More
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Víctor Jáquez: DMABuf modifier negotiation in GStreamer
It took almost a year of design and implementation but finally the DMABuf modifier negotiation in GStreamer is merged. Big kudos to all the people involved but mostly to He Junyan, who did the vast majority of the code.
What’s a DMAbuf modifier?
DMABuf are the Linux kernel mechanism to share buffers among different drivers or subsystems. A particular case of DMABuf are the DRM PRIME buffers which are buffers shared by the Display Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem. They allowed sharing video frames between devices with zero copy.
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PL/R 8.4.6 released
The PL/R team is proud to announce the release of version 8.4.6
This release is mainly to fix some issues building the code with version 16 of PostgreSQL and releasing windows builds with R version 4.1.3 and 4.2.3
PL/R is a procedural language which allows you to write PostgreSQL functions in R.
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6 Best Free and Open Source Linux FTP Servers
File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a time-honored method of transferring files to and from a remote network site.
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24 Apps and Scripts to Download YouTube Videos For Free
There are many reasons why someone might want to download YouTube videos.
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How to Annotate PDFs in Linux [Beginner's Guide]
You don't need a dedicated PDF editor to add comments and highlight text. Here's how you can use GNOME's Document Viewer to annotate PDFs in Linux.