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Crocus Gallium3D Nears Mainline Mesa For Gallium3D i965 Through Haswell Graphics

Phoronix - Sun, 06/06/2021 - 08:24
A few months ago you may recall word of Crocus as a new Mesa Gallium3D driver for supporting Intel Gen7 Haswell graphics and older back through the i965 class hardware. That Gallium3D driver for the aging class of Intel graphics is nearing mainline Mesa with the work-in-progress merge request now pending as of this week...

GNU Poke 1.3 Released For Poking At Binaries, Understanding Binary Data

Phoronix - Sun, 06/06/2021 - 00:26
GNU Poke debuted earlier this year as a new GNU project providing an interactive editor and integrated, interactive programming language for dealing with binary data. Poke makes it easier to analyze binary data and their data structures as well as manipulating said binary data...

NVMeTCP Offload Bits Coming For Linux 5.14 To Lower CPU Utilization, Better Latency

Phoronix - Sat, 06/05/2021 - 21:07
Adding to other networking changes queuing up for the upcoming Linux 5.14 cycle, NVMeTCP Offload has begun landing into "net-next" ahead of this next kernel merge window...

-O3 Compiler Optimization Level Still Deemed Too Unsafe For The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Sat, 06/05/2021 - 19:15
Due to not too old versions of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) possibly generating bad code with the "-O3" compiler optimization level and sometimes there not being performance benefits, Linus Torvalds remains against using this optimization flag when compiling the Linux kernel...

Wine-Staging 6.10 Ships With Just Under 600 Patches Atop Upstream Wine

Phoronix - Sat, 06/05/2021 - 18:15
It's been a few releases since there has been much in the way of new additions to Wine-Staging worth talking about. This staging/experimental version of Wine has at some points carried 700+ patches over upstream Wine but with not many new patches introduced recently while the flow of patches from staging to upstream Wine continuing, at this point its down to "only" 571 patches. With today's Wine-Staging 6.10 there are also some new improvements incorporated into this build...

KDE Gears Up For The Plasma 5.22 Release Next Week

Phoronix - Sat, 06/05/2021 - 17:51
Next week will mark the release of the Plasma 5.22 desktop with its Wayland support now much more mature alongside various performance improvements and a variety of other enhancements. Plasma 5.22 is a big step forward while already some feature work is going into Plasma 5.23 and the next round of KDE application updates...

Why my need for control made me switch to Linux

opensource.com - Sat, 06/05/2021 - 15:00

I am a control freak. I like to be in control. I got my pilot’s license so I could fly an airplane for fun, but it also helped me understand what is happening when I fly commercial. So now I find myself explaining to other travelers that, while not a normal occurrence, landing with the malfunctioning flaps in the up position is something that all pilots train extensively for. Yes, that is something that happened to my wife and me on a commercial flight a couple of years ago.


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Phoronix Turns 17 Years Old, Covering The Linux Hardware Scene Daily

Phoronix - Sat, 06/05/2021 - 12:00
Today marks seventeen years since I started Phoronix.com for what would become the leading Linux hardware reviews and benchmarking site. The 5th of June also marks 13 years now since the release of Phoronix Test Suite 1.0 for leading open-source benchmarking...

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