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The Rust Implementation Of GNU Coreutils Is Becoming Remarkably Robust

Phoronix - Thu, 02/09/2023 - 00:00
Coming about over the past two years has been uutils as a re-implementation of GNU Coreutils written within the Rust programming language. This Rust-based version of cp, mv, and other core utilities is reaching closer to parity with the widely-used GNU upstream and becoming capable of taking on more real-world uses...

Godot 4.0 RC1 Released

Phoronix - Wed, 02/08/2023 - 23:08
The open-source Godot 4.0 game engine will finally be released soon while being christened today is the initial release candidate...

Linux Parallel CPU Start-Up Restored For AMD CPUs To Yield Faster Boot Times

Phoronix - Wed, 02/08/2023 - 20:30
The very promising work around parallel CPU bring-up to speed-up Linux kernel boot times with today's high core count servers and HEDT systems has been revised once more. Notable with the v7 patches is re-enabling support for this time-savings boot feature for AMD processors...

Initial Intel Vulkan Video Support Lands In Mesa 23.1

Phoronix - Wed, 02/08/2023 - 19:15
Following yesterday seeing RADV Vulkan Video decoding land in Mesa 23.1, the initial Vulkan Video support for Intel's "ANV" Vulkan driver has also been merged to Mesa 23.1...

AOM AV1 3.6 Brings More Performance & Efficiency Optimizations

Phoronix - Wed, 02/08/2023 - 18:54
Google engineers on Tuesday released AOM AV1 v3.6 as the newest version of their open-source, CPU-based AV1 encoder...

GROMACS 2023 Released With Better SYCL For Intel / AMD / NVIDIA

Phoronix - Wed, 02/08/2023 - 18:37
GROMACS as the widely-used molecular dynamics software issued its stable v2023 release this week with improved GPU support via SYCL...

Intel Releases Embree 4.0 With Arc Graphics Support Via SYCL

Phoronix - Wed, 02/08/2023 - 18:07
Intel today introduced Embree 4.0 as a major update to this high performance ray-tracing library...

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