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Arch Linux Is The Latest Distribution Replacing Redis With Valkey

Phoronix - Thu, 04/17/2025 - 21:56
Arch Linux is the latest Linux distribution replacing its Redis packages with the Valkey fork...

GCC 15 Compiler Branched Ahead Of GCC 15.1 Stable Release

Phoronix - Thu, 04/17/2025 - 20:26
The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) code was branched today to the releases/gcc-15 branch and GCC 16.0.0 is now the version on the main development branch...

Intel Media Driver 2025Q1 Advertises Experimental Support For Panther Lake

Phoronix - Thu, 04/17/2025 - 18:30
In addition to this week's updated Intel oneVPL GPU Runtime, Intel's software engineers also released their new quarterly version of the Intel Media Driver that provides Video Acceleration API (VA-API) support for integrated graphics hardware going back to Broadwell processors and through the next-gen Panther Lake processors...

LXQt 2.2 Desktop Released With Better Wayland Support

Phoronix - Thu, 04/17/2025 - 18:13
LXQt 2.2 was christened today as the newest stable update to this lightweight, open-source Qt desktop environment...

Intel Graphics Compiler 2.10.8 Brings More Improvements For Xe2 & Xe3

Phoronix - Thu, 04/17/2025 - 17:59
Released on Wednesday was IGC 2.10.8 as the newest update to the Intel Graphics Compiler that is used by their Compute Runtime OpenCL/Level-Zero stack on Windows and Linux as well as being used as their graphics shader compiler under their Windows driver...

KDE Gear 25.04 Delivers Many Improvements To KDE's Applications

Phoronix - Thu, 04/17/2025 - 17:49
Following the recent Plasma 6.3 desktop release, KDE Gear 25.04 is now available for shipping all of the latest and greatest KDE applications...

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