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KDE is to Linux what 7 was to Windows  TechRepublic

AMD earlier this week quietly published a new version of its AOCC code compiler that is now rebased against the upstream LLVM/Clang 12.0 compiler state...

Let the Linux kernel Rust  TechRepublic

Squeezing More Performance Out Of The Linux Kernel With Clang + LTO  Phoronix

With the Linux 5.12 kernel bringing support for building the kernel with link-time optimizations (LTO) when using the LLVM Clang compiler, here are some benchmarks looking at that performance impact as well as more generally seeing how the LLVM Clang compiler performance is looking when building the Linux kernel relative to GCC.

It's Linux – But On An ESP32  Hackaday

The LLVMpipe software OpenGL driver in Gallium3D as well as the Lavapipe Vulkan software implementation now have anisotropic texture filtering support with Mesa 20.3 development code...

Amazon's DAMON is looking like it might be near for mainlining into the Linux kernel for this "Data Access Monitor". One of the follow-up patches that builds off DAMON that is also being pursued by Amazon engineers for proactive reclamation of memory pages...

6 Best Android Emulators to Run & Test Android Apps on Linux  It's FOSS

GraalVM 21.2 Released With New Optimizations, Better Linux AArch64 Support  Phoronix

Oracle has published a new version of GraalVM, its open-source Java JVM/JDK implemented in Java that also supports other programming languages and execution modes. GraalVM continues to be quite an interesting effort given its various languages supported and interesting technical experiments/features in the name of greater Java performance and other innovative features...

For a long time, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism, Asperger syndrome, dyslexia, and other neurodiverse conditions were considered things that hold people back. But now, many researchers and employers recognize that neurodiversity is a competitive advantage, especially in technology, and especially when certain accommodations are provided.

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Web components are a collection of open source technologies such as JavaScript and HTML that allow you to create custom elements that you can use and reuse in web apps. The components you create are independent of the rest of your code, so they're easy to reuse across many projects.

Best of all, it's a platform standard supported by all major modern browsers.

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A new release of PipeWire was made on Tuesday for this audio/video stream management solution for Linux that can replace the likes of JACK and PulseAudio...

Make-me-admin holes found in Windows, Linux kernel  The Register

Survey: Linux Foundation surveys the state of diversity in open source communities  Market Research Telecast

Google today released Chrome 92 as their newest release on the browser's four-week release regiment...

Linux Foundation betting on cloud native 5G ...  BNamericas English

Two-for-Tuesday vulnerabilities send Windows and Linux users scrambling  Ars Technica