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Months After Being Deprecated, Linux Ready To Say Goodbye To WiMAX

Phoronix - Sun, 03/21/2021 - 21:15
In addition to the legacy IDE driver code ready to go from the mainline Linux kernel, receiving its final death sentence now is also the WiMAX support...

Linux 5.13 To Address Some Networking Overhead Caused By Retpolines

Phoronix - Sun, 03/21/2021 - 20:47
It's been three years that Retpolines (return trampolines) have been around as part of the Spectre defenses on Linux and kernel developers in particular are still working to better optimize different areas of their code to deal with the performance overhead incurred...

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed's Very Busy Week With An Entire Rebuild, Latest KDE Packages

Phoronix - Sun, 03/21/2021 - 20:07
For users of the rolling-release openSUSE Tumbleweed distribution, it's been a very active past week...

Patches Proposed So Microsoft Debuggers Can Deal With GCC-Built MinGW Executables

Phoronix - Sun, 03/21/2021 - 18:13
Patches have been proposed for the GCC compiler to ultimately allow MinGW Windows executables to be debugged with Microsoft's debuggers...

Qt 6.1 Beta 2 Released, Qt-Project.org Called For Revival

Phoronix - Sun, 03/21/2021 - 12:00
This week marked the arrival of Qt 6.1 Beta 2 for providing the latest bug fixes for this cross-platform toolkit ahead of the planned release next month...

FreeBSD 13.0-RC3 Released With The WireGuard Driver Removed

Phoronix - Sun, 03/21/2021 - 01:13
A third and final release candidate of FreeBSD 13.0 was warranted ahead of its formal 13.0-RELEASE later this month...

Ubuntu 21.04 Moves Ahead With Enabling LTO Optimizations For Greater Performance

Phoronix - Sat, 03/20/2021 - 20:46
Ubuntu 21.04 is moving ahead with plans to enable compiler link-time optimizations (LTO) by default for package builds in the name of greater performance...

AMD Sends In Aldebaran, FreeSync HDMI, Other Graphics Changes For Linux 5.13

Phoronix - Sat, 03/20/2021 - 19:22
AMD on Friday submitted a big batch of AMDGPU driver changes to DRM-Next ahead of next month's Linux 5.13 merge window...

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