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Arm Talks Up Their Open-Source Contributions, Adding Support For Panfrost

Phoronix - Thu, 07/20/2023 - 22:01
While Intel is well known -- and well regarded -- as being one of the top contributors to the Linux kernel as well as being a significant player in many other open-source projects with their countless open-source software contributions over the years, Arm is now trying to better promote their open-source support and open contributions...

Qt Creator 11 Released With Integrated Terminal, GitHub Copilot Integration

Phoronix - Thu, 07/20/2023 - 20:21
Qt Creator 11 is out today as the Qt/C++ focused integrated development environment...

Intel Preparing Another Linux Vulkan Driver Optimization To Help Gamers

Phoronix - Thu, 07/20/2023 - 18:30
Following a recent Intel Mesa driver improvement to yield ~10% better performance, another change is on the way that has the ability to boost the performance for at least one game by 12% and other games by smaller yields...

Slackware turns 30 - The Register

Google News - Thu, 07/20/2023 - 18:27
Slackware turns 30  The Register

Alibaba Eyes Linux CPU Scheduler Changes To Better Handle QEMU With SMT/HT Threads

Phoronix - Thu, 07/20/2023 - 18:13
There is a phenomenon where running a multi-threaded workload inside a virtual machine (VM) with Simultaneously Multi-Threading (SMT / Intel Hyper Threading) that a sibling thread could find itself busy while the CPU core is idle. A new Linux CFS patch series aims to make the scheduler better adapt to the QEMU topology...

Google Chrome Rolling Out Support For Per-Display Scaling Factors

Phoronix - Thu, 07/20/2023 - 18:00
For those on Linux running a multi-monitor setup with a mix of resolutions or screen sizes between the different displays, Google Chrome (and Chromium) will soon be able to better cope with this arrangement by allowing per-display scaling factors...

LLVM 17 Adds New ISA Support For Intel Arrow Lake S & Lunar Lake

Phoronix - Thu, 07/20/2023 - 17:42
Following GCC recently adding new x86 instructions for Intel Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake, the LLVM 17 open-source compiler has now received similar treatment...

Linux Administrator - IT-Online

Google News - Thu, 07/20/2023 - 15:00
Linux Administrator  IT-Online

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