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Phoronix.com Turns 19 Years Old For Covering Linux Hardware ...  Phoronix

Today marks nineteen years since I started Phoronix.com for covering the Linux hardware space. It's been a wild ride from the days of 56K modems, graphics driver pains, and having to use NDISWrapper for WiFi device driver support on Linux, among many other Linux hardware pains in the early days. These days the open-source GPU driver scene is far better off, Linux hardware support overall is a great, companies continue investing massively into Linux/open-source thanks to the success in the server space over the past two decades, and the Steam Deck has proven to be one of the most interesting Linux-powered consumer devices in recent years...

Debian 12 is due next weekend but still contains 100 known bugs  Neowin

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: June 4th, 2023  9to5Linux

How to quickly update all software on Ubuntu with this single command chain  Neowin

Windows 10 Running on PS4, via Proxmox (video + tutorial by ...  Wololo.net

Windows 10 Running on PS4, via Proxmox (video + tutorial by ...  Wololo.net

Debian 12 remains on track for releasing next week even with around 100 known RC bugs that likely won't be resolved pre-release. The Debian release team says overall things are on-track...

Linux 6.4-rc5 Released - The Kernel Is Looking To Be In Good Shape  Phoronix

Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.4-rc5 as the latest weekly test candidate for Linux 6.4 and this kernel version is looking to be in good shape for a likely release in late June...

The LLVM Fortran compiler "Flang" has begun seeing NVIDIA CUDA support land in the upstream code-base...

How to Enable Wayland for Hybrid NVIDIA Graphics on Fedora Linux 38 Workstation  9to5Linux

The ACO "Amd COmpiler" started by Valve for the Mesa RADV Vulkan driver has shown it can do wonders for Linux gaming performance and reducing game load times compared to AMD's official AMDGPU LLVM shader compiler back-end. Recently thanks to the work of Qiang Yu there has been much work hitting upstream Mesa for beginning to enable using the ACO compiler by the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver...

RadeonSI ACO Code Lands More Functionality  Phoronix

With Chrome 114 is the start of Google beginning to roll-out Maglev as their new mid-tier compiler for further enhancing the JavaScript browser performance...

Google Chrome Begins Rollout Of New "Maglev" Mid-Tier Compiler  Phoronix

A new set of patches this weekend begin laying the groundwork for Rust abstractions for Linux network device drivers so that Rust code can be used for constructing new network device drivers. The patches also include a dummy Rust network driver...

Experimental Patches For Rust-Written Linux Network Drivers  Phoronix

Week in review: MOVEit Transfer critical zero-day vulnerability, Kali ...  Help Net Security

Red Hat is Dropping Its Support for LibreOffice  Slashdot