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Mesa Will Now Prevent Compiling With LTO Due To "Random Impossible-To-Debug Bugs"

Phoronix - 15 hours 48 min ago
While link-time optimizations "LTO" can deliver some nice performance benefits out of this compiler optimization technique, it can make debugging said binaries more challenging. Due to various bugs in Mesa being attributed to the use of compiler link-time optimizations when compiling Mesa, the builds are being blocked on using LTO...

GIMP Post-3.2 Will Be Looking At Hardware Acceleration, Full CMYK & More

Phoronix - 17 hours 30 min ago
With GIMP 3.2 releasing soon, GIMP developer Ondřej Míchal presented at FOSDEM 2026 this past weekend on some of the feature work being eyed for post-3.2 developments...

Intel Driver Disabling Vulkan Video Encode On Newer Hardware Due To Insufficient Testing

Phoronix - Wed, 02/04/2026 - 22:56
While Vulkan Video is a cross-vendor, cross-platform video encode and decode API that is beginning to gain traction by multimedia applications and frameworks, the Intel "ANV" open-source Vulkan driver has for now taken a step-back on its encode support with newer hardware. Newer Intel graphics hardware is seeing Vulkan Video encode support disabled due to insufficient testing...

GNU Coreutils 9.10 Released With Many Improvements

Phoronix - Wed, 02/04/2026 - 21:26
Earlier this week Rust Coreutils 0.6 released while out today is GNU Coreutils 9.10 as the de facto standard for this set of core utilities on Linux systems and other platforms...

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