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Healthy Competition With GCC 15 vs. LLVM Clang 20 Performance On AMD Zen 5

Phoronix - Wed, 02/12/2025 - 02:03
In the recent discussion over the GNU Gold linker being deprecated, there was the usual LLVM vs. GCC compiler/toolchain debate. Fortunately, with recently working on some initial benchmarks of the GCC 15 compiler I was following that up with some fresh LLVM Clang compiler comparison metrics on the same AMD Zen 5 hardware.

Intel CPU Microcode Updated For Five New Security Issues

Phoronix - Wed, 02/12/2025 - 01:15
Intel just published new CPU microcode for Alder Lake, Emerald Rapids, Ice Lake, Raptor Lake, Sapphire Rapids, Sierra Forest, and other platforms going back to Coffee Lake H. There are five new security issues being addressed plus a number of different functional issues being resolved...

GNOME 48 Now Allows Grouping Notifications By App

Phoronix - Tue, 02/11/2025 - 23:18
While the GNOME 48 feature and UI freezes went into effect just a little more than one week ago, a freeze exception was granted for merging support in GNOME Shell for grouping notifications on a per-app basis...

Ubuntu 25.04's GNOME Web Browser Will Be Able To Play More Web Videos By Default

Phoronix - Tue, 02/11/2025 - 22:54
Those making use of the GNOME Web "Epiphany" web browser with the upcoming Ubuntu 25.04 release will be able to enjoy playing more popular web videos thanks to a packaging change...

Arm Mali Panfrost Driver Lands OpenCL C Support In Mesa 25.1

Phoronix - Tue, 02/11/2025 - 21:46
The Panfrost Gallium3D driver has merged initial OpenCL C infrastructure into Mesa 25.1 for allowing OpenCL compute on Arm Mali graphics using this open-source Linux driver stack...

FLAC 1.5 Finally Delivers Multi-Threaded Encoding

Phoronix - Tue, 02/11/2025 - 21:36
FLAC 1.5 is out today as the newest feature update to the software built around the Free Lossless Audio Codec...

KDE Plasma 6.3 Released With Improved Fractional Scaling & Other Enhancements

Phoronix - Tue, 02/11/2025 - 19:44
Out just ahead of Valentine's Day is the much anticipated KDE Plasma 6.3 desktop release for further advancing this Qt6/KF6-based open-source desktop...

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