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Wine 6.10 Released With Newer Mono, Updated AppData Paths

Phoronix - Sat, 06/05/2021 - 03:49
As another cork to pop on the Phoronix 17th birthday weekend, Wine 6.10 has been released for running Windows applications and games on Linux...

NVIDIA 470.76 WSL Driver Released

Phoronix - Sat, 06/05/2021 - 03:25
While waiting for NVIDIA to publicly launch a beta of their much anticipated 470 Linux driver series, today they issued a new 470.76 release of their WSL "Windows Subsystem for Linux" driver...

LLVM Clang 12 Leading Over GCC 11 Compiler Performance On Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake

Phoronix - Fri, 06/04/2021 - 23:20
Recently we have been running a number of compiler benchmarks looking at the recently released LLVM Clang 12 and GCC 11 open-source code compilers. There is as healthy and competitive competition as ever between GCC and Clang with the mainline Linux kernel these days working well under Clang, more software projects shifting to Clang by default, and the performance being as tight as ever between GCC and Clang for compiled C/C++ code on x86_64 and AArch64. In today's article are benchmarks of Clang 12 vs. GCC 11 on the dual Intel Xeon Platinum 8380 Ice Lake server.

Linux's USB Audio Driver Aims For Latency Reduction

Phoronix - Fri, 06/04/2021 - 21:19
With the upcoming Linux 5.14 cycle, the USB sound driver will ideally exhibit lower latency when starting playback...

Haiku OS Continues Making Progress On RISC-V, Adds Stack Protection

Phoronix - Fri, 06/04/2021 - 18:35
The Haiku open-source operating system inspired by BeOS continues advancing with work ranging from their hardware support and low-level kernel features up through user-interface work...

Wasmer 2.0 WebAssembly Runtime Is Near With Much Faster Performance

Phoronix - Fri, 06/04/2021 - 17:48
WASM3 v0.5 released this week for that WebAssembly interpreter that claims to be the fastest. The Wasmer WebAssembly runtime for WASI/EmScripten meanwhile released its initial 2.0 release candidates this week where it's been upping the performance...

Atari VCS Controller Support Added To SDL2

Phoronix - Fri, 06/04/2021 - 17:33
Ahead of the long-awaited Atari VCS game console launching this month, the SDL2 library has added the mapping for the Linux game console's controllers...

How to Install a Lightweight Bodhi Linux 6.0

Tecmint - Fri, 06/04/2021 - 16:20
The post How to Install a Lightweight Bodhi Linux 6.0 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Bodhi GNU/Linux is a Ubuntu-based distribution designed especially for Desktop computing and is best known for its elegant and lightweight nature. The Distribution philosophy is to provide a minimal base system that can be

The post How to Install a Lightweight Bodhi Linux 6.0 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Set and use environment variables in FreeDOS

opensource.com - Fri, 06/04/2021 - 15:01

A useful feature in almost every command-line environment is the environment variable. Some of these variables allow you to control the behavior or features of the command line, and other variables simply allow you to store data that you might need to reference later. Environment variables are also used in FreeDOS.


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Arm Releases ASTC Encoder 3.0 With Even Better Performance

Phoronix - Fri, 06/04/2021 - 15:00
Arm has released version 3.0 of its encoder for Adaptive Scalable Texture Compression (ASTC), the lossy compression algorithm popular with OpenGL (ES) and Vulkan that is royalty-free and available through official extensions...

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