Open-source News

Wasmtime 0.28 Released With C++ Embedding Support

Phoronix - Sun, 06/13/2021 - 17:51
In addition to the recent WebAssembly project releases of Wasmer 2.0-rc and WASM3 v0.5, the Bytecode Alliance that is made up of Intel and Mozilla and other organizations has announced Wasmtime 0.28...

Intel's ConnMan 1.40, IWD 1.15 Released For Linux Networking

Phoronix - Sun, 06/13/2021 - 15:00
A number of Intel's open-source projects have been seeing new released this week presumably for making Q2/H1-2021 goals, including two of the networking projects maintained by the company: the ConnMan connection manager and IWD wireless daemon...

10 go-to breakfasts for open source technologists today

opensource.com - Sun, 06/13/2021 - 15:00

In May, we asked some of our contributors what they eat for breakfast. After all, busy developers, sysadmins, and other IT pros need to fuel up quickly before they are ready to take on the rigors of their jobs.

After reading about our contributors' morning meals, many Opensource.com readers were quick to share what they eat to start the day. So if the first 16 quick breakfasts didn't feed your hunger, here are 10 more options.


read more

XFS To Enjoy Big Scalability Boost With Linux 5.14

Phoronix - Sun, 06/13/2021 - 04:54
A big patch series out of Red Hat is now queued into the XFS file-system development Git branch that is part of the new material for the upcoming Linux 5.14 cycle...

Profile Guided Optimizations (PGO) Likely Coming To Linux 5.14 For Clang

Phoronix - Sat, 06/12/2021 - 21:00
Recently the mainline Linux kernel has seen a lot of improvements to its feature set when compiling it under LLVM's Clang rather than GCC as traditionally the only supported compiler. The most recent feature being brought to the Linux kernel when using Clang is finally allowing the use of compiler profile guided optimizations (PGO) for squeezing even greater performance out of the system by letting the compiler leverage the real-world profiles/metrics collected to make more informed code generation / optimization decisions...

helloSystem 0.5 Released For macOS-Inspired FreeBSD Desktop

Phoronix - Sat, 06/12/2021 - 19:17
One of the most promising BSD-based desktop distributions in recent times has been helloSystem that wants to be the macOS of BSDs with a polished desktop experience. helloSystem has been making good progress towards their goals in recent months and this weekend now issued version 0.5...

Intel's ISPC Compiler Adds Alder Lake + Sapphire Rapids Support And Apple Arm Chips

Phoronix - Sat, 06/12/2021 - 19:05
On Friday afternoon Intel released a new version of their ISPC compiler, the Implicit SPMD Program Compiler, that supports a variant of the C programming language with extensions around single-program, multiple-data programming for CPU and GPU execution. Not only does this release prepare support for upcoming Intel CPUs but also adds support now for Apple's Arm processors...

Pages