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Intel Wildcat Lake "-march=wildcatlake" Added To GCC & LLVM Clang Compilers

Phoronix - Wed, 10/15/2025 - 18:38
While the open-source GCC and LLVM/Clang compilers saw Panther Lake support added in early 2024, only overnight was support upstreamed to GCC and Clang for the similar Wildcat Lake target...

Mesa's Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Driver Lands Mesh Shader Support

Phoronix - Wed, 10/15/2025 - 18:02
In development for around the past year was the cross-vendor mesh shading extension for OpenGL. Last week GL_EXT_mesh_shader was merged to the OpenGL Registry for this mesh shader support and first new GL extension in a while...

Basic HDR Support For AMD Radeon Accelerated Video Processing On Linux

Phoronix - Wed, 10/15/2025 - 17:52
David Rosca at AMD continues leading the efforts for improving the open-source Radeon video acceleration support under Linux with the Mesa Gallium3D code. This is especially important now that AMD is encouraging customers to no longer use the AMD Multimedia Framework (AMF) on Linux but resort to using VA-API and the Mesa multimedia capabilities instead...

Linux Gains Tool For Defragmenting exFAT Filesystems

Phoronix - Wed, 10/15/2025 - 17:36
A new release of exfatprogs is now available as the user-space programs on Linux for the exFAT file-system to complement the in-tree kernel driver for the Microsoft exFAT support...

Box86/box64 - Hackaday

Google News - Wed, 10/15/2025 - 16:01
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How to Install and Use PostgreSQL 18 on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Tecmint - Wed, 10/15/2025 - 13:00
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PostgreSQL (Postgres in short) is an open source, powerful, advanced, high-performance, and stable relational-document database system, which extends the SQL

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