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LLVM 21.1 Released With AMD GFX1250 Target, Improved RISC-V, New C/C++ Features

Phoronix - Tue, 08/26/2025 - 22:28
LLVM 21.1 is out today as the first stable version of the LLVM 21 compiler stack. This half-year stable release to the open-source LLVM compiler software brings new hardware support, new language features, and a lot of other enhancements throughout this massive and widely-used codebase...

Open-Source R300 Driver Adds New OpenGL Extensions For Two Decade Old Radeon GPUs

Phoronix - Tue, 08/26/2025 - 21:08
While the ATI Radeon 9000 / X300 / X500 / X600 series "R300" GPU support has long been unmaintained on the Microsoft Windows driver side, thanks to the open-source community the Linux driver support keeps going for the old ATI R300 GPUs with that driver also supporting the X700 / X800 "R400" and X1000 "R500" series graphics cards too. Two more OpenGL extensions are now wired up for the old R300 Gallium3D driver within Mesa...

Mir 2.22 Released With Tackling NVIDIA Support, Initial Rust Scaffolding

Phoronix - Tue, 08/26/2025 - 18:42
Mir 2.22 is out today as the newest version of this Canonical project providing libraries for building Wayland-based shells/compositors. Mir 2.22 brings some notable improvements around NVIDIA GPU/driver support as well as initial preparations for Rust programming language support...

AMD & IBM Team Up For Quantum-Centric Supercomputing

Phoronix - Tue, 08/26/2025 - 18:28
AMD and IBM announced a joint collaboration today around quantum-centric supercomputing. IBM's quantum computing expertise is to be paired with AMD's AI and HPC technology like their Instinct accelerators to help accelerate quantum-centric supercomputing...

Initrd Support Could Finally Be On Its Way To Being Removed From The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Tue, 08/26/2025 - 18:21
Linux's classic initial RAM disk "initrd" support might finally be on its way out of the Linux kernel depending upon feedback from stakeholders. Long live initramfs...

Greenboot Rust Rewrite Approved For Fedora 43

Phoronix - Tue, 08/26/2025 - 18:00
Red Hat engineers have been rewriting Greenboot in the Rust programming language to replace the Bash-written version of this generic health check framework for systemd, bootc, and RPM-OSTree based Linux environments. That Rust rewrite of Greenboot is now cleared for appearing in the Fedora Linux 43 release...

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