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LLVM/Clang Can Work Fine As A GCC Replacement For Linux Distributions

Phoronix - Mon, 02/05/2024 - 19:57
While the performance of LLVM/Clang is on-par with GCC these days on both x86_64 and AArch64 and the C/C++ support is very robust compared to many years ago, most Linux distributions continue using the GCC compiler and GNU toolchain by default. OpenMandriva is a well known Linux distribution that for several years has been a Clang-built Linux distribution while for three years now the Chimera Linux distribution has also been relying exclusively on an LLVM toolchain...

PipeWire To Work On Vulkan Converters & Processing Filters

Phoronix - Mon, 02/05/2024 - 19:43
With PipeWire 1.0 having been released toward the end of last year and is now commonly used by Linux distributions out-of-the-box for managing audio/video streams, you may be wondering about the future plans for this open-source software from Red Hat. Well, Wim Taymans was at FOSDEM this weekend in Brussels and shared some of the plans ahead for PipeWire...

VOPD Scheduler For Valve's ACO Compiler Merged Into Mesa 24.1

Phoronix - Mon, 02/05/2024 - 19:34
A pull request open for the past eight months for implementing a VOPD scheduler for the Valve-developed ACO "AMD Compiler" back-end has now been merged for Mesa 24.1-devel...

How to Set Up Clustering and High Availability in Proxmox

Tecmint - Mon, 02/05/2024 - 14:34
The post How to Set Up Clustering and High Availability in Proxmox first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

A cluster is a collection of two or more nodes that offers an avenue for moving around resources between servers. Migrating resources make it possible

The post How to Set Up Clustering and High Availability in Proxmox first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

LXD Fork Incus Looking At Bcachefs Storage Driver & Upcoming LTS Release

Phoronix - Mon, 02/05/2024 - 13:00
It's been just shy of four months since the Incus 0.1 release as a fork of the LXD project after Canonical re-asserted control over LXD last summer. Incus though is showing great potential and should be an interesting 2024...

Gentoo Linux Begins Offering x86-64-v3 Binary Packages

Phoronix - Mon, 02/05/2024 - 02:40
Gentoo ended out last year by beginning to optionally provide binary packages for direct installation. This lowers the barrier for using Gentoo Linux and also works out well for low-end/embedded systems rather than always compiling source packages locally. They've now taken their binary position a step further by also offering up x86-64-v3 packages...

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