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How to Install Latest XFCE Desktop in Ubuntu and Fedora

Tecmint - Fri, 05/21/2021 - 13:23
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Xfce is a modern, open-source, and lightweight desktop environment for Linux systems. It also works well on many other Unix-like systems such as Mac OS X, Solaris, *BSD plus several others. It is fast

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Intel's IGC Graphics Compiler 1.0.7423 Brings 100+ Changes

Phoronix - Fri, 05/21/2021 - 12:00
Intel's open-source team maintaining their graphics compiler (IGC) have issued a big update this week...

PipeWire 0.3.28 Released With More PulseAudio Modules Implemented

Phoronix - Fri, 05/21/2021 - 08:13
PipeWire continues to be on an upward trajectory for managing Linux audio/video streams and becoming a viable replacement now to PulseAudio and JACK on the Linux desktop...

Red Hat Is Hiring Even More Graphics Engineers

Phoronix - Fri, 05/21/2021 - 00:14
Red Hat is already one of the leading employers of open-source graphics driver developers and other engineers working on the upstream Linux desktop graphics stack while they are adding even more...

PostgreSQL 14 Beta Released With More Performance Improvements

Phoronix - Thu, 05/20/2021 - 23:44
PostgreSQL developers continue working on juicing the maximum performance possible out of this popular open-source SQL database server...

LLVM Clang 12 Compiler Is Performing Very Well For AMD Ryzen 9 5950X / Zen 3

Phoronix - Thu, 05/20/2021 - 21:50
Earlier this week I posted some benchmarks looking at the compiler performance of GCC 11 vs. LLVM Clang 12 on the Intel Core i9 11900K "Rocket Lake" processor while in this article the same tests and same software are being carried out on an AMD Ryzen 9 5950X "Zen 3" desktop. With these AMD Linux tests the Clang 12 compiler not only yielded the fastest binaries at -O2 but carried through in the more optimized configurations as well.

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