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Intel Talks Up Their Latest Compiler Toolchain Enhancements For AVX10.1, AMX & More

Phoronix - 3 hours 41 min ago
Intel software engineer Victor Rodriguez presented at the Open-Source Summit North America last month on their open-source compiler toolchain work for enabling ISA capabilities of upcoming Intel CPUs as well as using simulation tools for helping to test compiler enhancements/optimizations moving forward...

OpenZFS 2.2.4 Released With Linux 6.8 Support

Phoronix - 7 hours 40 min ago
OpenZFS 2.2.4 was released on Thursday evening to provide the latest ZFS file-system support on Linux and FreeBSD platforms...

Dell Laptop Platform Profile Patches Being Worked On For Linux

Phoronix - 7 hours 41 min ago
A patch recently posted to the Linux kernel mailing list is working on implementing ACPI Platform Profile support for modern Dell laptops to allow users to have more control over their balanced / cool / quiet / performance behavior of the laptop and its resulting impact on the fan noise / cooling performance...

Proton 9.0-1 Released With Many Improvements For Steam Play Linux Gaming

Phoronix - 18 hours 23 min ago
Valve and CodeWeavers have announced the availability of Proton 9.0-1 as their Wine downstream that pulls in DXVK and VKD3D-Proton along with other changes and powers Steam Play for Linux desktop gaming and on the Steam Deck...

XWayland 24.1 RC2 Brings Fixes For Explicit Sync & DRM Leasing

Phoronix - Thu, 05/02/2024 - 23:27
Red Hat's Olivier Fourdan announced today the second release candidate of the upcoming XWayland 24.1...

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