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New Maintainer Steps Up For GCC Compiler's MIPS CPU Port

Phoronix - Thu, 05/18/2023 - 18:11
With development of the MIPS architecture having officially ended two years ago in favor of focusing on RISC-V for future CPU designs and the overall decline of that CPU architecture, it's been years since the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) has seen its MIPS code well maintained. However, now a capable developer has stepped up willing to serve as the GCC maintainer for MIPS...

AlmaLinux 8.8 Released For Those Relying On RHEL8

Phoronix - Thu, 05/18/2023 - 17:54
Earlier this month Red Hat released RHEL 9.2 and at the same time they also released RHEL 8.8 for those continuing to rely on the stable RHEL8 series. AlmaLinux managed to provide a same-day release of AlmaLinux 9.2 while now one week later they have also shipped AlmaLinux 8.8...

Steam Client Beta Fixes NVIDIA HiDPI Scaling, GPU Hardware Acceleration

Phoronix - Thu, 05/18/2023 - 17:33
Valve released a new Steam client beta overnight and contains a few notable fixes for NVIDIA Linux gamers...

Wayland's Weston 12.0 Released With Multi-GPU Support, PipeWire Backend, Tearing Control

Phoronix - Thu, 05/18/2023 - 03:55
Weston 12.0 as Wayland's reference compositor is now available with multiple GPU support in the DRM back-end, support for HDMI content types, support for the Wayland tearing control protocol, plane alpha DRM property handling, a PipeWire back-end, and much more...

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