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Synopsys DesignWare ARC HS CPUs Now Supported By GNU C Library

Phoronix - Sat, 07/11/2020 - 23:34
The toolchain support for the Synopsys DesignWare ARC HS processors is now ironed out with the GNU C Library (glibc) finally mainlining the ARC port...

Linus Torvalds' Initial Comment On Rust Code Prospects Within The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Sat, 07/11/2020 - 21:46
Kernel developers appear to be eager to debate the merits of potentially allowing Rust code within the Linux kernel. Linus Torvalds himself has made some initial remarks on the topic ahead of the Linux Plumbers 2020 conference where the matter will be discussed at length...

There Finally Is Work On Shipping Mozilla's WebRender For Some Linux Environments

Phoronix - Sat, 07/11/2020 - 21:24
While Mozilla has been gradually enabling WebRender out-of-the-box in more Windows configurations with succeeding Firefox releases, up to now there hasn't been much visible effort in getting WebRender enabled out-of-the-box for any Linux configurations. But fortunately that is finally changing...

KDE Plasma 5.20 Seeing More Wayland Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 07/11/2020 - 19:01
While KDE Plasma 5.19 is already in fairly good shape with regards to its Wayland session, Plasma 5.20 is looking to offer even better support for this native Wayland environment along with many other enhancements...

Linux 5.8 Formally Adds The Inclusive Terminology Guidelines

Phoronix - Sat, 07/11/2020 - 18:38
Merged overnight into the Linux kernel source tree are the new guidelines concerning the use of "inclusive terminology" for future code...

How to Upgrade to Linux Mint 20 Ulyana

Tecmint - Sat, 07/11/2020 - 13:00
Linux Mint 19.3 receives support until April 2023, but you may want to upgrade to the latest version of Mint – Linux Mint 20 – to enjoy the numerous enhancements and cool features. In

Cling C++ Interpreter Looking To Upstream More Code Into LLVM

Phoronix - Sat, 07/11/2020 - 12:01
Not to be confused with Clang as the well known C/C++ compiler front-end for the LLVM compiler, Cling is a separate project as an interactive, JIT-based C++ interpreter. Cling has been in development for years and at least partially is looking to upstream where possible back into LLVM...

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