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RVCC Proposed As An LLVM Incubator For High Performance RISC-V Optimizations

Phoronix - Mon, 03/30/2026 - 21:42
A proposal was submitted today for launching the RISC-V Compiler Collaboration "RVCC" as an LLVM Incubator project to focus on compiler optimizations for better performance on RISC-V. But before getting too excited, there is already some opposition to the proposal...

Ubuntu MATE Leader Stepping Down, Seeking New Contributors

Phoronix - Mon, 03/30/2026 - 21:25
After starting and leading the Ubuntu MATE flavor since 2014, Martin Wimpress announced he's looking to step down from leading this flavor of Ubuntu Linux with the MATE desktop environment. He's hoping for new passionate contributors to keep it going...

Rspamd 4.0 Released For Open-Source Spam Filtering

Phoronix - Mon, 03/30/2026 - 21:17
Rspamd 4.0 is out today as a big update to this powerful open-source spam filtering system...

RADV Vulkan Video Adds Low-Latency Encode/Decode Options

Phoronix - Mon, 03/30/2026 - 20:56
The Mesa Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver has added new low-latency Vulkan Video encode/decode options for those seeking better performance...

Intel Graphics Driver For Linux 7.1 Preps Workaround For Dell XPS Panther Lake Laptop

Phoronix - Mon, 03/30/2026 - 18:32
Sent out today was the latest batch of drm-intel-next changes as feature work toward DRM-Next for Linux 7.1 winds down. This week's drm-intel-next pull is mostly fixes and some low-level code refactoring. The only item really standing out is some new quirk infrastructure for dealing with laptop display panels that may have buggy Panel Replay handling...

AMD Revives Linux Kernel Patches For Hardware-Accelerated vIOMMU

Phoronix - Mon, 03/30/2026 - 18:03
Back in 2023 AMD posted hardware-accelerated virtualized IOMMU patches for the Linux kernel as a request for comments (RFC). In 2024 they then posted a second iteration of the AMD vIOMMU patches but then seemingly fell off the radar. This morning is now the first set of updated AMD vIOMMU patches sent out on the Linux kernel mailing list with the RFC tag now removed...

SolveSpace 3.2 3D CAD Tool Adds Qt Frontend, Experimental Web Version

Phoronix - Mon, 03/30/2026 - 17:48
SolveSpace 3.2 was released this past week as the newest feature update to this open-source parametric 3D CAD tool for creating 2D/3D parts and other CAD diagrams...

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