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Perl 5.38 Released With Experimental Class Feature, Unicode 15

Phoronix - Mon, 07/03/2023 - 20:25
After being in development for more than one year, Perl 5.38 released today as the latest feature update to this programming language...

Wayland Protocols 1.32 Brings Three New Staging Protocols

Phoronix - Mon, 07/03/2023 - 18:43
Jonas Ådahl of Red Hat today published a new version of the Wayland-Protocols package that consists of all the stable and staging protocol definitions for use in the Wayland world...

VFIO In Linux 6.5 Adds Support For The AMD CDX Bus

Phoronix - Mon, 07/03/2023 - 18:18
The Virtual Function I/O "VFIO" changes were merged last week for the ongoing Linux 6.5 kernel merge window. This IOMMU/device agnostic framework has added an AMD CDX driver this cycle along with other improvements for this subsystem that is important to the Linux virtualization stack...

GCC Lands Support For The MIPS16e2 ISA

Phoronix - Mon, 07/03/2023 - 18:09
The in-development GCC 14 compiler has added support for the MIPS16e2 processor ISA...

AMD CPU Use Among Linux Gamers Approaching 70% Marketshare

Phoronix - Mon, 07/03/2023 - 01:10
Besides being curious about the Steam Survey results for indicating the size of the Linux gaming marketshare as an overall percentage, one of the interesting metrics we are curious about each month is the AMD vs. Intel CPU marketshare for Linux gaming. AMD has been on quite an upward trajectory among Linux gamers/enthusiasts in recent years not only for their Radeon graphics cards with their popular open-source driver stack but their Ryzen CPUs have become extremely popular with Linux users. With the new Steam Survey results for June, AMD CPUs are found on nearly 70% of Linux gaming systems polled by Steam...

The 2023 State of The Embedded Linux Ecosystem

Phoronix - Sun, 07/02/2023 - 22:47
This past week at the Linux Foundation's Embedded Open-Source Summit in Prague, Sony engineer Tim Bird who is prominent in the embedded Linux community provided another insightful presentation to sum up the current state of the embedded Linux ecosystem...

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