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GCC Rust Approved By Steering Committee, Likely To Land For GCC 13

Phoronix - Tue, 07/12/2022 - 00:00
The GCC Steering Committee has approved of the GCC Rust front-end providing Rust programming language support by the GNU Compiler Collection. This Rust front-end will likely be merged ahead of the GCC 13 release next year...

Linux 5.19 Looking Real Good On The HP Dev One, XanMod + Liquorix Also Tested

Phoronix - Mon, 07/11/2022 - 21:00
With the very popular HP Dev One that is powered by an AMD Ryzen 7 PRO SoC and running Pop!_OS, a number of Phoronix readers inquired about seeing benchmarks of some of the alternative kernel flavors on the device. So here is a look at the stock Linux 5.17 kernel up against the Linux 5.18 and 5.19 (Git) kernels and then Liquorix and XanMod tossed in as alternative flavors running on the Pop!_OS 22.04 installation.

Fwupd 1.8.2 Released - Supports More Corsair, PixArt, SteelSeries, System76 Hardware

Phoronix - Mon, 07/11/2022 - 20:35
LVFS/fwupd lead developer Richard Hughes at Red Hat has released Fwupd 1.8.2 as the newest version of this open-source solution for handling firmware updates under Linux and other platforms...

Many Old X.Org Components Saw New Releases This Weekend

Phoronix - Mon, 07/11/2022 - 18:23
While no new X.Org "katamari" releases are planned for a collection of all the X.Org component updates combined, this weekend longtime X.Org contributor Alan Coopersmith of Oracle issued many new updates to various old, seldom-maintained X.Org projects...

RADV Vulkan Driver Lands Performance Query Extension

Phoronix - Mon, 07/11/2022 - 17:45
One of the newest extensions now supported by the RADV Vulkan driver is VK_KHR_performance_query, which can be used by RenderDoc and other utilities...

GNOME Shell + Mutter 43 Alpha Released

Phoronix - Mon, 07/11/2022 - 17:36
In gearing up for the GNOME 43 Alpha release coming out soon, this weekend marked the release of the new alpha versions of GNOME Shell and Mutter...

MSM DRM Driver Adds Adreno 619 Support With Linux 5.20

Phoronix - Mon, 07/11/2022 - 17:14
Rob Clark as the lead developer of the MSM DRM kernel driver and the Freedreno/TURNIP Mesa drivers for open-source Qualcomm Adreno graphics driver support has submitted the Direct Rendering Manager driver changes for the upcoming Linux 5.20 merge window...

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