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Rust GCC Code Generator "rustc_codegen_gcc" Can Now Bootstrap Rustc

Phoronix - Sat, 04/02/2022 - 20:00
A huge milestone has been reached in the rustc_codegen_gcc effort that aims to offer a GCC-based Rust compiler alternative to the LLVM-based official Rust compiler...

Wacom Talks Up Their Linux Support

Phoronix - Sat, 04/02/2022 - 18:50
As longtime Linux users likely know or even those reading Phoronix over the years, Wacom devices have generally worked well on Linux. Not that it should be particularly surprising, Wacom recently published a blog post talking up their twenty years of Linux support for their various drawing pens and tablets...

ReactOS "Open-Source Windows" Manages To Run Some Battlefield Games

Phoronix - Sat, 04/02/2022 - 18:38
ReactOS as the open-source operating system project striving for binary compatibility with Windows applications/games/drivers has made much progress over the past two decades but in some areas still lacking like still working on SMP/multi-core support and other functionality. To some surprise, some of the older Battlefield games are at least now in a playable state on ReactOS...

Intel Media SDK 22.3.1 Released With Raptor Lake Support, More DG2/Alchemist Features

Phoronix - Sat, 04/02/2022 - 17:46
Following Intel's Arc A-Series mobile graphics introduction from earlier in the week, Intel open-source engineers have released their Media Driver/SDK 22.3.1 version that includes more DG2/Alchemist feature enablement...

Linux 5.18 Preparations, AMD Servers, Spectre BHI & Other Highlights From March

Phoronix - Sat, 04/02/2022 - 17:35
With March wrapped up here is a look back at the most popular open-source Linux news and articles for the month...

KDE Starts April With Many Fixes, KWrite Internally Using The Same Code As Kate

Phoronix - Sat, 04/02/2022 - 17:26
This week brought "an enormous number of Plasma bugfixes and UI improvements" and other changes to the KDE desktop stack...

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