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Intel HFI To Premiere In Linux 5.18 For Improving Hybrid CPU Performance/Efficiency

Phoronix - Sun, 02/06/2022 - 23:26
The Linux 5.18 kernel this spring is adding support for the Intel Hardware Feedback Interface (HFI, also talked about sometimes as the Enhanced Hardware Feedback interface - EHFI)...

FEX-Emu Is Working On Speedy x86/x86_64 Games Support On AArch64, Including Proton

Phoronix - Sun, 02/06/2022 - 20:19
While the Apple M1 SoC is a great piece of hardware, a large part of what has made Apple Silicon so successful with their newest Macs has been their Rosetta 2 software for dynamically translating x86/x86_64 software to run well on these 64-bit Arm systems. Existing applications and games optimized for prior Intel Macs continue running generally in excellent shape on their newest hardware thanks to Rosetta 2. While there is the ongoing Linux bring-up work for Apple Silicon on Linux, the open-source world doesn't currently have that advantage of a compelling Rosetta 2 alternative but the FEX-Emu project hopes to change that outlook...

Improved ASUS Motherboard Sensor Monitoring To Arrive With Linux 5.18

Phoronix - Sun, 02/06/2022 - 19:44
While Linux 5.17 is introducing the ASUS WMI EC Sensors driver for greatly expanding Linux's support for hardware sensor coverage on newer ASUS desktop motherboards, already with Linux 5.18 that driver will be deprecated to make way for a new ASUS EC sensor driver replacement...

Steam Deck Platform Driver Posted For The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Sun, 02/06/2022 - 18:00
A Linux kernel driver was posted today for platform control support for Valve's upcoming Steam Deck...

GNU/Hurd Continues Effort To Use NetBSD's Drivers For Better Hardware Support

Phoronix - Sun, 02/06/2022 - 17:46
Besides all of the Linux-focused talks at the annual FOSDEM conference, another favorite track of mine is that on micro-kernels and other operating systems. While there wasn't the GNU/Hurd status update in 2022 as there has been in some recent years, there was a talk over GNU/Hurd using NetBSD kernel drivers in order to expand its hardware coverage...

Write code inspired by Shakespeare with esolang

opensource.com - Sun, 02/06/2022 - 16:00

Maybe you've heard that playwright William Shakespeare contributed 1,700 new words to the English language. But did you know that he has an entire programming language as well?

SPL (Shakespeare programming language) was created to make source code resemble Shakespeare plays. It is an esoteric language, also known as an esolang. An esolang is a computer programming language designed to experiment with weird ideas, create a challenge for programmers, or simply serve as a source of amusement, rather than for practical use.


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