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Fedora 40 Eyes Dropping GNOME X11 Session Support

Phoronix - Tue, 09/19/2023 - 18:21
In addition to Fedora 40 planning to ship KDE Plasma 6.0 and without any X11 session support, Fedora stakeholders are also looking at shipping GNOME for the Fedora Workstation 40 release without any X11 session support...

LLVM 17.0 + Clang 17.0 Released With Many New Compiler Features

Phoronix - Tue, 09/19/2023 - 17:52
The LLVM 17 compiler stack has been released as stable as LLVM 17.0.1 -- a slight mistake leaving the 17.0.0-rc tag meant the original v17.0.0 tag was skipped. This LLVM 17.0.1 stable release along with sub-projects like the Clang 17 C/C++ compiler bring many new features and improvements...

The Maintainer Of The NVIDIA Open-Source "Nouveau" Linux Kernel Driver Resigns

Phoronix - Tue, 09/19/2023 - 09:17
Hours after posting a large patch series for enabling the Nouveau kernel driver to use NVIDIA's GSP for improving the support for RTX 20/30 series hardware and finally enabling accelerated graphics support on RTX 40 "Ada Lovelace" GPUs, the Red Hat maintainer has resigned from his duties...

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