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AlmaLinux 9 Beta Released For Testing As No-Cost RHEL9 Alternative

Phoronix - Wed, 04/20/2022 - 07:46
Following the RHEL 9.0 Beta from last November and CentOS Stream 9 for the bleeding-edge RHEL9, the AlmaLinux crew today announced their 9.0 beta milestone. AlmaLinux over the past year has proven itself capable as a popular, community-based RHEL alternative that started after Red Hat announced it would discontinue the no-cost CentOS Linux downstream...

W3C Posts Initial WebAssembly 2.0 Working Drafts

Phoronix - Wed, 04/20/2022 - 06:50
WebAssembly as the W3C standard for a portable binary-code format for executable programs on the web and elsewhere continues seeing exciting new use-cases for speedy web applications and even desktop purposes. This open standard continues advancing though and the first public working drafts of WebAssembly 2.0 were published today...

NVIDIA Posts Open-Source DRM Kernel Driver For NVDLA

Phoronix - Wed, 04/20/2022 - 00:12
NVIDIA has posted 13k lines of new Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel driver code for review for supporting their NVDLA IP block...

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Release Candidate Images For Last Minute Testing

Phoronix - Tue, 04/19/2022 - 21:30
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" is set to be officially released this Thursday while available today are the hopefully-final release candidate images...

GCC vs. Clang On The Apple M1 Under Arch-Based Asahi Linux

Phoronix - Tue, 04/19/2022 - 19:52
With the Arch Linux based Asahi Linux running well on the Apple M1 (aside from accelerated graphics and various other features not implemented yet), one of the areas I was curious about was how well LLVM Clang and GCC C/C++ compilers compete when running on the Apple M1 with Linux. In this article are some quick benchmarks looking at how the stock compilers on Asahi currently compare for Apple's Arm-based SoC.

Virtual Motorola 68000 "m68k" Machine With Up To 3.2GB RAM Expected For Linux 5.19

Phoronix - Tue, 04/19/2022 - 19:28
Being worked on for a while has been a more powerful Motorola 68000 "m68k" virtualization target. It looks like that new virtual machine target will come with Linux 5.19 for allowing m68k guests with up to 3.2GB of RAM and up to 128 VirtIO devices...

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