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KDE Plasma 6.0 Release Candidate Available For Testing

Phoronix - Wed, 01/10/2024 - 23:50
In working toward the stable release of Plasma 6.0 at the end of February, today marks the release candidate of Plasma 6.0 along with the updated Qt6-ported KDE Gear apps and KDE Frameworks 6.0 that comprise the "KDE 6th Megarelease" software...

Linux 4.14 LTS Reaches End-Of-Life After Six Years

Phoronix - Wed, 01/10/2024 - 23:06
Linux 4.14 debuted at the end of 2017 with exciting features at the time like AMD Vega improvements, working on the since-failed Intel Cannonlake graphics, Zstd compression support, and more. The kernel has advanced a heck of a lot since then and Linux 6.7 recently debuted. It's now time that Linux 4.14 LTS has been declared end-of-life...

A 2024 Discussion Whether To Convert The Linux Kernel From C To Modern C++

Phoronix - Wed, 01/10/2024 - 19:42
A six year old Linux kernel mailing list discussion has been reignited over the prospects of converting the Linux kernel to supporting modern C++ code...

Linux 6.8 Perf Tools Add Support For AMD Zen 4 Memory Controller Events

Phoronix - Wed, 01/10/2024 - 19:17
The tooling changes around the perf subsystem have been submitted for the Linux 6.8 kernel merge window and provide some new hardware features and other new perf profiling capabilities...

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