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Haiku OS Support Upstreamed Into GCC Compiler

Phoronix - Fri, 08/11/2023 - 22:44
Developers of the BeOS-inspired Haiku operating system have long been carrying patches for supporting the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) on their platform while this week the code was upstreamed for GCC 14...

Intel Meteor Lake Graphics Still Experimental "Force Probe" With Linux 6.6

Phoronix - Fri, 08/11/2023 - 21:54
Sent out today was the drm-intel-gt-next and drm-intel-next pull requests of the latest Intel graphics driver feature code for DRM-Next to then be merged for the upcoming Linux 6.6 cycle. Both pull requests indicate these are the last planned feature updates ahead of Linux 6.6 but what's interesting is that with the latest code upcoming Meteor Lake graphics are still being treated as experimental...

LLVM Clang Now Supports -std=c23

Phoronix - Fri, 08/11/2023 - 19:50
LLVM/Clang developers have been working on C23 language support for some time already but to this point it's only been exposed when using the -std=c2x target or -std=gnu2x for the GNU dialect. However, with C2x having been finalized this summer as C23, the LLVM Clang 18 compiler will now honor the -std=c23 option...

Cloud Hypervisor 34 Brings QCOW2 Support for Backing Files, Paravirtualized Panic Device

Phoronix - Fri, 08/11/2023 - 18:12
Cloud Hypervisor -- the Rust-written open-source VMM that was started by Intel while having evolved into a Linux Foundation project with backing from multiple organizations -- is out with the Cloud-Hypervisor 34 release...

Upgraded GNU Compiler Toolchain Approved For Fedora 39

Phoronix - Fri, 08/11/2023 - 17:58
It shouldn't come as much surprise for those familiar with Fedora given its tendency to always ship with the very latest open-source compiler toolchain components, but this autumn's release of Fedora 39 will once again have all the leading-edge GNU compiler pieces...

DRM Scheduler Patches Updated That Clear The Path For Merging Intel's Xe Driver

Phoronix - Fri, 08/11/2023 - 17:44
Intel Arc Graphics customers have been eager to see the new Xe DRM kernel driver merged as a modern alternative to the long-standing i915 Direct Rendering Manager driver. The Xe driver should allow for better performance, is focused just on recent Intel graphics hardware, makes use of modern kernel features, and will allow for new features such as around the Vulkan sparse support. One of the blockers for getting the Xe driver merged at least in experimental form is getting the necessary DRM scheduler changes merged...

How to Enable Collaboration on Drupal with ONLYOFFICE Docs on Ubuntu

Tecmint - Fri, 08/11/2023 - 14:28
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Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS Released With Linux 6.2 + Mesa 23.0 HWE Stack

Phoronix - Fri, 08/11/2023 - 05:02
Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS is now available as the newest point release to this current long-term support series...

Microsoft's CBL-Mariner 2.0 Linux Distro Adds DNF5, Zstd-Compressed RPMs

Phoronix - Fri, 08/11/2023 - 03:30
Microsoft has released CBL-Mariner 2.0.20230805 as the newest monthly-ish update to their in-house Linux distribution used for purposes from Azure to WSL...

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