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Intel oneAPI Initiative Evolves Into The Unified Acceleration "UXL" Foundation

Phoronix - Tue, 09/19/2023 - 21:00
Here's a surprise announcement I was briefed on last week and now made public by the Linux Foundation and Intel... The Linux Foundation is forming the Unified Acceleration (UXL) Foundation that is an evolution of Intel's oneAPI initiative and has the potential to make the compute accelerator ecosystem as a whole more open and unified across vendors.

Fedora 40 Eyes Dropping GNOME X11 Session Support

Phoronix - Tue, 09/19/2023 - 18:21
In addition to Fedora 40 planning to ship KDE Plasma 6.0 and without any X11 session support, Fedora stakeholders are also looking at shipping GNOME for the Fedora Workstation 40 release without any X11 session support...

LLVM 17.0 + Clang 17.0 Released With Many New Compiler Features

Phoronix - Tue, 09/19/2023 - 17:52
The LLVM 17 compiler stack has been released as stable as LLVM 17.0.1 -- a slight mistake leaving the 17.0.0-rc tag meant the original v17.0.0 tag was skipped. This LLVM 17.0.1 stable release along with sub-projects like the Clang 17 C/C++ compiler bring many new features and improvements...

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