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GCC 12 Shifting To Stage 4 Development - No Sign Of AMD Zen 4 Support

Phoronix - Wed, 01/12/2022 - 21:00
The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) that serves as the default system compiler on most Linux distributions is nearing its annual update with GCC 12. GCC 12 has been in a general bug fixing period since November while beginning next week will be onto its final phase of focusing just on regression and documentation fixes to the compiler...

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Sees Timely Support With The Mainline Linux 5.17 Kernel

Phoronix - Wed, 01/12/2022 - 19:54
Qualcomm only announced the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 and X65 platforms at the end of November but already they have managed to provide timely mainline support for these latest high-end SoCs. This is great to see compared to the days of slow to materialize mainline support for new Arm SoCs, which still persists among some vendors with either belated mainline support or only focusing on vendor downstream kernels. The big batch of Arm SoC/platform changes have landed for Linux 5.17...

One-Line Patch To Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Can Help Modern Games By A Few Percent

Phoronix - Wed, 01/12/2022 - 18:39
A patch merged into Mesa 22.0 on Tuesday for Intel's "ANV" open-source Vulkan Linux driver is helping bump up the perforrmance in modern games...

CXL Memory Hotplug Support Ready To Plug Into Linux 5.17

Phoronix - Wed, 01/12/2022 - 18:16
Over the past two years work has been ramping up a lot on Compute Express Link (CXL) enablement for the Linux kernel and with the in-development Linux 5.17 there is more feature code landing...

Set up a build system with CMake and VSCodium

opensource.com - Wed, 01/12/2022 - 16:01

This article is part of a series about open source DevOps tools for C/C++ development. If you build up your project from the beginning on a powerful toolchain, you will benefit from a faster and safer development. Aside from that, it will be easier for you to get others involved in your project. In this article, I will prepare a C/C++ build system based on CMake and VSCodium.


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How to build an open source metaverse

opensource.com - Wed, 01/12/2022 - 16:00

If I told you that all content and software you need to build the metaverse is already available and completely free, would you do it?

Hold that thought, and let's take a step back and explain the metaverse.


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GNOME Shell & Mutter Prepare For GNOME 42 Alpha With Exciting Improvements

Phoronix - Wed, 01/12/2022 - 14:00
The GNOME Shell and Mutter have checked in their new development releases for the imminent GNOME 42 Alpha milestone...

Linux 5.17: Quicker Mount Times For XFS, Few New Features For EXT4

Phoronix - Wed, 01/12/2022 - 13:00
In addition to the Btrfs updates, the EXT4 and XFS file-system maintainers submitted their feature changes already for the in-development Linux 5.17 kernel...

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