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While the performance of LLVM/Clang has improved a lot over the years and for x86_64 and AArch64 can be neck-and-neck with the GCC compiler, the fierce performance battle is not over. With LLVM/Clang 14.0 due out in the early months of 2022 will be more performance work with one recent commit in particular showing a lot of promise...

LLVM Clang 14 Lands An "Amazing" Performance Optimization  Phoronix

ADI grows Linux device-driver lineup  EDN.com

Ubuntu-based Freespire 8.0 Linux distribution focuses heavily on Google services  BetaNews

Josh Duggar trial day 4: Duggar confessed to molesting children close family friend says, prosecution rests  KNWA

How to find DuckDuckGo From Linux Terminal  BollyInside

Compact Elkhart Lake system triples up on GbE and HDMI  LinuxGizmos.com

In 2022 we will very likely see the experimental Rust programming language support within the Linux kernel mainlined. Sent out this morning were the updated patches introducing the initial support and infrastructure around handling of Rust within the kernel...

TechRepublic's top checklist roundup  TechRepublic

Blender 3.0 Benchmarks - Performance Across 19 Different NVIDIA GPUs  Phoronix

Last week marked the debut of the highly anticipated Blender 3.0 open-source 3D modeling software. Since then I have been very busy putting Blender 3.0 through its paces with a lot of performance benchmarking across various CPUs and GPUs.

Mozilla Firefox 95.0 is now available for download ahead of its official release tomorrow. Making this new version interesting is the RLBox integration...

4 Best Ways to Use Office on Chromebook  TechPP

AMD is preparing updates to their SMCA (Scalable Machine Check Architecture) driver code for future CPUs and points to processors having different bank layouts between CPU cores on the package...

How CentOS changes the cloud Linux game  InfoWorld

Percepio Wins Coveted Elektra Award for Tracealyzer for Linux  EIN News

Percepio Wins Coveted Elektra Award for Tracealyzer for Linux  EIN News

Landing in Mesa 22.0 on Sunday night was the Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" support for the recently introduced VK_KHR_dynamic_rendering extension...

Krita is best known as a digital painting application, but in my experience, it's kind of a digital imaging powerhouse. Recently, a fork of GIMP called GLIMPSE had to pause its development, and because I like alternatives, it occurred to me that Krita could be a reasonable photo editor for at least some use cases. It isn't easy to measure the suitability of an application for a group of tasks because different people require or prefer different things. What's very common and indispensable to one person is an edge case for someone else.

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