Via its FOSS Fund – and initiative many other companies also use — Bloomberg employees can nominate open source software projects they use/contribute to. From the nominations a vote is held quarterly and up to three $10,000 (USD) grants are awarded.
Bloomberg awarded the first of its grants in January. The three recipients (selected from a pool of five) were:
- Apache Arrow – analytics tool
- Curl – CLI data transfer tool
- Celery – primary task management tool
Built using the latest Qt 6 and FFmpeg 6 frameworks, the upcoming Shotcut 23.04 release promises improved Wayland support, an ARM64 (AArch64) build of the Flatpak binary, timeline optimization, faster previews for most video clips without filters, and additional multi-threading in audio/video file reading.
Shotcut 23.04 will also reintroduce the GPU Effects feature, which has been greatly improved to be more performant and stable. GPU Effects now comes with new functionality like end-to-end support for 10-bit sources, text filters, video scopes, stabilization, and support for showing only or all GPU filters when searching for “gpu” in Filters.
Because the BIOS version is exposed via the System Management BIOS (SMBIOS) tables, we can access it on Linux using the dmidecode command. Furthermore, because access to this information requires root privileges, the command must always be prefixed with sudo .
I've recently been putting the 7800X3D through its paces under Linux and have a plethora of benchmark data to share for launch day.