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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...

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...

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