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Linux 6.4 Bringing Great Improvements From AMD G.A.M. To Early Apple M2 Code, More Rust

Phoronix - Sun, 06/25/2023 - 00:17
With it having been another smooth week so far in the upstream kernel world, it's looking like Linus Torvalds is likely to promote Linux 6.4 tomorrow rather than going ahead with an extra release candidate. As such, here's a reminder about what makes Linux 6.4 a great summer-time kernel upgrade...

Intel Arc Graphics Driver Change Leads To A Big Speed-Up Under Linux

Phoronix - Sat, 06/24/2023 - 18:40
With the latest Mesa 23.2 code as of Friday there is now a rather significant performance optimization for Intel's graphics driver stack that really helps out Intel Arc Graphics DG2/Alchemist along with upcoming Meteor Lake graphics. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, for example, was found to be 11% faster now with this single driver change and other Vulkan apps/games benefiting as well...

More Plasma 6 Work Continues, SDDM To Be Incubated By KDE

Phoronix - Sat, 06/24/2023 - 18:24
The KDE Plasma 6 desktop is becoming more "livable" and each week new features continue to be implemented. This week was another lively phase of development toward Plasma 6.0...

GCC 14 Adds Initial "-std=c++26" Plumbing

Phoronix - Sat, 06/24/2023 - 18:00
Similar to LLVM Clang 17 adding -std=c++26 support as the open-source compiler begins work on the next major revision of the C++ programming language, the GCC 14 compiler code has now also added the -std=c++26 compiler option...

Wine 8.11 Brings Various Improvements For Windows Apps On Linux

Phoronix - Sat, 06/24/2023 - 12:00
A new bi-weekly release of Wine is now available for enjoying Windows applications and games on Linux and other platforms...

Intel Releases x86-simd-sort 2.0 With Faster AVX-512 Sorting, New Algorithms

Phoronix - Sat, 06/24/2023 - 05:00
Earlier this year Intel software engineers published a blazing fast AVX-512 sorting library that was initially picked up by Numpy where it netted them 10~17x faster sorts. Today marks the release of x86-simd-sort 2.0 with even more AVX-512 features in place and additional sorting algorithms added...

Firewalld 2.0 Released With Faster Forwarding Performance Via NFTables Flowtable

Phoronix - Sat, 06/24/2023 - 02:26
The Firewalld open-source firewall daemon has been in development since 2011 while only two years ago did it reach the Firewalld 1.0 milestone. Thus it was a bit surprising to find Firewalld 2.0 being released today...

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