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Rust-Written Coreutils Replacement uutils 0.0.19 Released

Phoronix - Mon, 06/05/2023 - 17:45
The open-source uutils project that is striving to be a drop-in replacement to GNU Coreutils but written within the Rust programming language is out today with a new feature update...

IceWM 3.4 Released With Improved Keybindings Handling

Phoronix - Mon, 06/05/2023 - 17:31
For fans of the lightweight IceWM X11 window manager, released on Sunday was IceWM 3.4 as the newest feature release...

How to Fix “bash syntax error near unexpected token” in Linux

Tecmint - Mon, 06/05/2023 - 14:38
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Bash (Bourne Again Shell) is a command-line program that accepts commands provided and executes them. It takes Linux commands directly typed into it interactively from

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Phoronix.com Turns 19 Years Old For Covering Linux Hardware, Open-Source News

Phoronix - Mon, 06/05/2023 - 12:00
Today marks nineteen years since I started Phoronix.com for covering the Linux hardware space. It's been a wild ride from the days of 56K modems, graphics driver pains, and having to use NDISWrapper for WiFi device driver support on Linux, among many other Linux hardware pains in the early days. These days the open-source GPU driver scene is far better off, Linux hardware support overall is a great, companies continue investing massively into Linux/open-source thanks to the success in the server space over the past two decades, and the Steam Deck has proven to be one of the most interesting Linux-powered consumer devices in recent years...

Debian 12 "Bookworm" Set For Release Next Week With Around 100 Known Bugs

Phoronix - Mon, 06/05/2023 - 04:00
Debian 12 remains on track for releasing next week even with around 100 known RC bugs that likely won't be resolved pre-release. The Debian release team says overall things are on-track...

Linux 6.4-rc5 Released - The Kernel Is Looking To Be In Good Shape

Phoronix - Mon, 06/05/2023 - 02:30
Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.4-rc5 as the latest weekly test candidate for Linux 6.4 and this kernel version is looking to be in good shape for a likely release in late June...

LLVM Flang Begins Seeing NVIDIA CUDA Fortran Support

Phoronix - Sun, 06/04/2023 - 20:15
The LLVM Fortran compiler "Flang" has begun seeing NVIDIA CUDA support land in the upstream code-base...

RadeonSI ACO Code Lands More Functionality

Phoronix - Sun, 06/04/2023 - 18:40
The ACO "Amd COmpiler" started by Valve for the Mesa RADV Vulkan driver has shown it can do wonders for Linux gaming performance and reducing game load times compared to AMD's official AMDGPU LLVM shader compiler back-end. Recently thanks to the work of Qiang Yu there has been much work hitting upstream Mesa for beginning to enable using the ACO compiler by the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver...

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