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GNOME 42 Released With Many Improvements From Wayland To GTK4 Porting

Phoronix - Thu, 03/24/2022 - 00:00
GNOME 42 is out today as the latest half-year update for this widely-used, open-source desktop environment...

Apple M1 Performance On Linux: Benchmarks Better Than Expected For Its Alpha State

Phoronix - Wed, 03/23/2022 - 21:00
Last Friday the crew at Asahi Linux led by Hector Martin released the first alpha release for running Linux on Apple Silicon hardware. I eagerly loaded up Asahi Linux on an M1-powered Apple Mac Mini knowing the various early limitations of the Linux kernel support that is still settling. Overall the Apple M1 Linux performance ended up exceeding my expectations for the performance in its early alpha state. Here are some benchmarks.

Latest Linux Code Smashes 14M IOPS Per-Core With Intel Core i9 12900K + Optane

Phoronix - Wed, 03/23/2022 - 20:25
Back in the day, 2.5 million IOPS per core was an impressive feat... That day was little more than one year ago. With faster hardware and relentless optimizations by Linux kernel developers, 14 million IOPS per core is the new record now achieved...

Imagination Posts Original Driver Code For PowerVR Series 1 GPUs As Open-Source

Phoronix - Wed, 03/23/2022 - 19:31
In addition to Imagination working on a open-source PowerVR Vulkan driver for their newest graphics IP within Mesa, Imagination Technologies has also decided to go back and publish their original PowerVR Series 1 macOS/Windows driver as open-source...

Intel + Microsoft Contribute "SIOV" I/O Virtualization Spec To Open Compute Project

Phoronix - Wed, 03/23/2022 - 17:55
Intel announced yesterday that they in cooperation with Microsoft have contributed the Scalable I/O Virtualization (SIOV) specification to the Open Compute Project for being an open standard moving forward...

Arm Neoverse Demeter & N2 Tuning Merged Into GCC 12, Experimental NVPTX Option

Phoronix - Wed, 03/23/2022 - 17:45
While GCC 12 is in stage four development and focused just on regression fixes, a few notable patches were merged this week into the codebase ahead of its official release expected in roughly a month or so...

LLVM / Clang 14.0 Prepared For Release With With Armv9, BOLT, More C++20 & C23

Phoronix - Wed, 03/23/2022 - 17:36
LLVM 14.0 and sub-projects like Clang 14 have been tagged with the official sources now available and the binaries for various platforms are beginning to be uploaded...

FBDEV Drivers See More Fixes With Linux 5.18

Phoronix - Wed, 03/23/2022 - 17:19
It's been a decade since the calls began for deprecating Linux's frame-buffer drivers "FBDEV" and the push for replacing FBDEV with DRM/KMS drivers. While DRM/KMS drivers are now commonplace even in the embedded space, FBDEV still won't die and with Linux 5.18 is seeing another round of fixes going in...

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