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Debian 12.5 Released To Provide The Latest Security & Bug Fixes

Phoronix - Sun, 02/11/2024 - 13:00
Debian 12.5 is out this weekend as the newest stable point release for this widely-used Linux distribution in order to ship the latest security fixes and various bug fixes...

AMD Zen 5 Compiler Support Posted For GCC - Confirms New AVX Features & More

Phoronix - Sat, 02/10/2024 - 22:41
Making for a very exciting Saturday morning, AMD just posted their initial enablement patch for plumbing Zen 5 processor support "znver5" into the GNU Compiler Collection! With GCC 14 due to be released as stable in March~April as usual for the annual compiler release, it's been frustrating to see no Zen 5 support even while Intel has already been working on Clear Water Forest and Panther Lake support with already having upstreamed Sierra Forest, Granite Rapids, and other new CPU targets months ago... Well, Granite Rapids was added to GCC in late 2022. But squeezing in as what should now be merged in time is the initial AMD Zen 5 support!..

Qualcomm Hardware Support Increasingly In Good Shape On The Mainline Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Sat, 02/10/2024 - 20:00
After years of work by Qualcomm and Linaro engineers, the Qualcomm SoC support on the mainline Linux kernel has finally matured enough that new hardware support tends to come rather quickly and be well supported. With the forthcoming Linux 6.8 kernel the new Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 can boot on the mainline kernel, the Snapdragon-powered ThinkPad X13s has been popular with Linux developers thanks to the upstream support, and other Qualcomm-powered devices tending to play more nicely with upstream Linux these days rather than having to resort to vendor kernel builds...

Xfce 4.20 Aiming For Usable Wayland Support While Maintaining X11 Compatibility

Phoronix - Sat, 02/10/2024 - 19:36
Xfce developers have updated their Wayland roadmap this week to reflect their latest plans around the Xfce 4.20 release...

Variable Refresh Rate "VRR" Support Comes Down To The Wire For GNOME 46

Phoronix - Sat, 02/10/2024 - 19:07
Today marks the UI, feature, and API/ABI freezes for the GNOME 46 desktop ahead of its stable release on 16 March. One feature coming down to the wire that looks like it may not make it -- unfortunately -- is the Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) integration...

Three Weeks To Go Until The KDE Plasma 6.0 Release

Phoronix - Sat, 02/10/2024 - 18:36
There is just under three weeks to go until the much anticipated KDE Plasma 6 debut...

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