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Linus Torvalds: "I Hope AVX512 Dies A Painful Death"

Phoronix - Sun, 07/12/2020 - 08:39
Linux creator Linus Torvalds had some choice words today on Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (AVX-512) found on select Intel processors...

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...

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