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LLVM Clang Mainlines Support For The Motorola 68000 Series (m68k)

Phoronix - Tue, 03/09/2021 - 05:55
If it wasn't odd enough during these pandemic times seeing Nintendo 64 support upstreamed into the Linux 5.12 kernel a few weeks back, the latest vintage hardware seeing open-source support still going on is the Motorola 68000 series 32-bit processors. LLVM/Clang today merged the "m68k" target for these three decade old processors...

Intel Already Started Working On Linux Driver Code For Lunar Lake

Phoronix - Tue, 03/09/2021 - 03:36
While Intel 11th Gen Rocket Lake desktop processors are launching this month, Intel's open-source Linux driver developers known for their punctual support are already preparing early code around their 14th Gen "Lunar Lake" platform...

GNOME 40 Mutter Lands Wayland Presentation-Time Support

Phoronix - Tue, 03/09/2021 - 00:11
The patch series implementing support for Wayland's Presentation-Time protocol within the Mutter compositor has been merged ahead of this month's GNOME 40 release...

AMD Has A Very Exciting Announcement Next Week

Phoronix - Mon, 03/08/2021 - 22:02
AMD has announced that next week on 15 March they will be hosting a digital launch event for the EPYC 7003 "Milan" processors...

Canonical Talks Up Why Ubuntu Is A Great Replacement To CentOS

Phoronix - Mon, 03/08/2021 - 21:09
Following the surprise announcement last year that CentOS 8 will be EOL'ed at the end of 2021 to focus instead on CentOS Stream and all the uncertainty that brought with Red Hat now being owned by IBM, new distributions like Rocky Linux were conceived while existing Linux distributions have been looking to capitalize on that move. Oracle Linux has been advertising how it's a great RHEL downstream while Canonical is now promoting how Ubuntu is a great replacement to CentOS...

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed Might See Micro-Architecture Packages For Better Performance

Phoronix - Mon, 03/08/2021 - 19:35
One of the many great programs at SUSE is the roughly annual program where their developers can focus for one week on any new open-source development they desire. SUSE Hack Week has led to many great innovations and improvements since it began in the mid-2000s and for the Hack Week later this month there is one project attempt we are eager to see tackled...

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