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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...

Debian 11.0 Is Now Under A Hard Freeze

Phoronix - Sat, 03/20/2021 - 18:39
This past week Debian 11 "Bullseye" embarked on its hard freeze in gearing up for release later this year...

KDE Saw More Wayland Fixes This Week, Other Changes

Phoronix - Sat, 03/20/2021 - 17:55
As we get ready for spring, KDE developers continue polishing up their Wayland support for the Plasma 5.22 cycle...

Linux Looks To Finally Remove Its Legacy IDE Driver Support

Phoronix - Sat, 03/20/2021 - 12:00
It's 2021 and proposed patches by upstream developers would finally remove Linux's legacy IDE driver code...

Initial Support For The Rust Language Lands In Linux-Next

Phoronix - Sat, 03/20/2021 - 00:40
For a long while now Linux kernel developers have discusses the prospects of optionally allowing the Rust language to be used for new device drivers within the Linux kernel areas and other areas within the kernel for this language that prides itself on safety and performance. As the first baby step towards that dream, initial Rust support appeared this week in the Linux-Next tree...

Canonical Continues To Talk Up Google's Flutter UI Toolkit

Phoronix - Fri, 03/19/2021 - 23:37
Recently Ubuntu maker Canonical committed to using Google's Flutter user-interface toolkit as its "default choice" for their mobile and desktop applications moving forward. There is now an Ubuntu Blog post further detailing their interests in Flutter...

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