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-O3 Compiler Optimization Level Still Deemed Too Unsafe For The Linux Kernel

Sat, 06/05/2021 - 19:15

Due to not too old versions of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) possibly generating bad code with the "-O3" compiler optimization level and sometimes there not being performance benefits, Linus Torvalds remains against using this optimization flag when compiling the Linux kernel...

Wine-Staging 6.10 Ships With Just Under 600 Patches Atop Upstream Wine

Sat, 06/05/2021 - 18:15

It's been a few releases since there has been much in the way of new additions to Wine-Staging worth talking about. This staging/experimental version of Wine has at some points carried 700+ patches over upstream Wine but with not many new patches introduced recently while the flow of patches from staging to upstream Wine continuing, at this point its down to "only" 571 patches. With today's Wine-Staging 6.10 there are also some new improvements incorporated into this build...

KDE Gears Up For The Plasma 5.22 Release Next Week

Sat, 06/05/2021 - 17:51

Next week will mark the release of the Plasma 5.22 desktop with its Wayland support now much more mature alongside various performance improvements and a variety of other enhancements. Plasma 5.22 is a big step forward while already some feature work is going into Plasma 5.23 and the next round of KDE application updates...

Phoronix Turns 17 Years Old, Covering The Linux Hardware Scene Daily

Sat, 06/05/2021 - 12:00

Today marks seventeen years since I started Phoronix.com for what would become the leading Linux hardware reviews and benchmarking site. The 5th of June also marks 13 years now since the release of Phoronix Test Suite 1.0 for leading open-source benchmarking...

Wine 6.10 Released With Newer Mono, Updated AppData Paths

Sat, 06/05/2021 - 03:49

As another cork to pop on the Phoronix 17th birthday weekend, Wine 6.10 has been released for running Windows applications and games on Linux...

NVIDIA 470.76 WSL Driver Released

Sat, 06/05/2021 - 03:25

While waiting for NVIDIA to publicly launch a beta of their much anticipated 470 Linux driver series, today they issued a new 470.76 release of their WSL "Windows Subsystem for Linux" driver...

LLVM Clang 12 Leading Over GCC 11 Compiler Performance On Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake

Fri, 06/04/2021 - 23:20

Recently we have been running a number of compiler benchmarks looking at the recently released LLVM Clang 12 and GCC 11 open-source code compilers. There is as healthy and competitive competition as ever between GCC and Clang with the mainline Linux kernel these days working well under Clang, more software projects shifting to Clang by default, and the performance being as tight as ever between GCC and Clang for compiled C/C++ code on x86_64 and AArch64. In today's article are benchmarks of Clang 12 vs. GCC 11 on the dual Intel Xeon Platinum 8380 Ice Lake server.

Linux's USB Audio Driver Aims For Latency Reduction

Fri, 06/04/2021 - 21:19

With the upcoming Linux 5.14 cycle, the USB sound driver will ideally exhibit lower latency when starting playback...

Haiku OS Continues Making Progress On RISC-V, Adds Stack Protection

Fri, 06/04/2021 - 18:35

The Haiku open-source operating system inspired by BeOS continues advancing with work ranging from their hardware support and low-level kernel features up through user-interface work...

Wasmer 2.0 WebAssembly Runtime Is Near With Much Faster Performance

Fri, 06/04/2021 - 17:48

WASM3 v0.5 released this week for that WebAssembly interpreter that claims to be the fastest. The Wasmer WebAssembly runtime for WASI/EmScripten meanwhile released its initial 2.0 release candidates this week where it's been upping the performance...

Atari VCS Controller Support Added To SDL2

Fri, 06/04/2021 - 17:33

Ahead of the long-awaited Atari VCS game console launching this month, the SDL2 library has added the mapping for the Linux game console's controllers...

Arm Releases ASTC Encoder 3.0 With Even Better Performance

Fri, 06/04/2021 - 15:00

Arm has released version 3.0 of its encoder for Adaptive Scalable Texture Compression (ASTC), the lossy compression algorithm popular with OpenGL (ES) and Vulkan that is royalty-free and available through official extensions...

Chrome 92 Beta Released With File Handling API, Other Developer Additions

Fri, 06/04/2021 - 08:36

Following last week's stable release of Chrome 91, Google has now promoted Chrome 92 to beta...

FUTEX2 Linux Patches Updated To Support Variable-Sized Futexes

Fri, 06/04/2021 - 05:46

One of the elusive kernel patch series we have been eager to see for the mainline Linux kernel has just been spun up a fourth time...

CentOS Linux 8 2105 Released As RHEL 8.4 Equivalent

Fri, 06/04/2021 - 05:03

While CentOS Linux 8 is being discontinued at the end of the year in favor of Red Hat focusing those resources on CentOS Stream, CentOS Linux 8 2105 was released today as the newest version that is now based on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 sources...