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On this last day of the Linux 6.3 kernel merge window, Linus Torvalds merged the patch dropping support for Intel (ICC) compiler support. Specifically this is Intel's long-standing ICC compiler now known as the "Intel C++ Compiler Classic" prior to its transition to being LLVM/Clang-based with the modern Intel DPC++ compiler...

Linux 6.3 Drops Support For The Intel ICC Compiler  Phoronix

Testing The First PCIe Gen 5.0 NVMe SSD On Linux Has Been Disappointing Review  Phoronix

This past week saw the first two consumer PCIe 5.0 NVMe solid-state drives released to retail: the Gigabyte AORUS Gen5 10000 and the Inland TD510. I've been testing the Inland TD510 2TB Gen 5 NVMe SSD the past few days. While in simple I/O testing it can hit speeds almost up to 10,000 MB/s reads and writes, for more complex workloads it quickly dropped against popular PCIe Gen 4.0 NVMe SSD options. In my testing thus far of this first consumer Gen5 NVMe SSD it's left me far from impressed.

NVIDIA RTX 4080/4070 Ti Enter the List of Top 10 Most Sold GPUs on Steam, AMD Grows Linux CPU Share  Hardware Times

Merged on Saturday to upstream Coreboot was support for some of the latest Intel Alderlake (and signs of Raptor Lake) powered laptops from Linux vendor System76...

Latest System76 Intel-Powered Laptops Added To Coreboot  Phoronix

How to sideload apps to a Chromebook  XDA Developers

Ahead of the Linux 6.3-rc1 release later today, a set of "x86/urgent" patches were sent out Sunday morning that include the change to allow Single Threaded Indirect Branch Predictors (STIBP) to be used in the presence of legacy Indirect Branch Restricted Speculation (IBRS) for security reasons...

Linux Landing Change To Allow STIBP When Using Legacy IBRS  Phoronix

Building off Friday's release of Wine 8.3 is a new release of Wine-Staging, the experimental/testing blend of this software for enjoying Windows games and applications on Linux. Wine-Staging 8.3 carries more than 500 patches atop the upstream Wine code-base...

Wine-Staging 8.3 Released With Fix For MeshroomCL  Phoronix

GNOME 44 Mutter Adds fractional_scale_v1 Wayland Support  Phoronix

While GNOME 3.32 saw initial work on fractional scaling support for the GNOME Shell and Mutter compositor, the upcoming GNOME 44 release is bringing support for Wayland's fractional_scale_v1 protocol...

Ask Slashdot: Can You Use an Unsafe Computer Safely?  Slashdot

How to Use RecoverPy to Rescue Deleted Files on Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

AMD in February quietly released version 1.1 of their in-development Unified Inference Front-end "UIF" that aims to be their catch-all solution for AI inference from CPUs to GPUs to FPGAs and other IP from their recent Xilinx acquisition...

Intel's "ANV" Vulkan driver within Mesa has landed a set of patches to fix a glaring performance issue affecting Skylake/Gen9 era graphics with the cross-platform GravityMark benchmark...

Intel Mesa Vulkan Driver Fixed Up For Very Slow Gen9 GravityMark ...  Phoronix

Yesterday saw GNOME Shell and Mutter drop the last of their GTK3 dependence while today there is another interesting change to mention on the Mutter compositor side... An experimental option for enabling some HDR modes with supported high dynamic range displays...