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Google Posts Patches So The Linux Kernel Can Be LTO-Optimized By Clang

Phoronix - Thu, 06/25/2020 - 05:35
A Google engineer has posted patches for review so that the mainline Linux kernel can be built with Link-Time Optimizations (LTO) by the LLVM Clang code compiler...

Perl 7 Announced As Evolving Perl 5 With Modern Defaults

Phoronix - Thu, 06/25/2020 - 01:21
Taking place this week is the virtual Perl + Raku "Conference in the Cloud" as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic causing the event to go virtual. A big announcement out of it is Perl 7...

Flatpak 1.8 Released For This Leading Linux App Sandboxing / Distribution Tech

Phoronix - Thu, 06/25/2020 - 00:22
Flatpak 1.8 stable is out today as this leading open-source Linux application sandboxing and distribution technology...

NVIDIA 450.51 Linux Driver Beta Adds NGX Library, PRIME Improvements

Phoronix - Wed, 06/24/2020 - 22:06
Earlier this month a NVIDIA 450 Linux beta driver popped out as part of the CUDA 11.0 release candidate. Today though is the first public and generally available NVIDIA 450 series Linux driver beta for all users...

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