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Mesa 20.0.3 Released With Latest Open-Source Graphics Driver Fixes

Phoronix - Thu, 04/02/2020 - 12:03
While many of you are users of Mesa Git for experiencing the bleeding-edge graphics drivers especially if you are a gamer wanting peak performance, for those on the Mesa stable series the Mesa 20.0.3 update has now shipped...

GNU Guix Wants To Replace The Linux-Libre Kernel With The Hurd Micro-Kernel

Phoronix - Thu, 04/02/2020 - 07:14
Seemingly at first thinking it was just an April Fools' Day joke, but it turns out the GNU Guix developers responsible for their package manager and operating system are actually working to replace their Linux (GNU Linux-libre to be exact) kernel with GNU Hurd...

GTK 3.98.2 Released As Another Step Towards GTK4

Phoronix - Thu, 04/02/2020 - 04:00
GTK 3.98.2 is out as the latest development snapshot in the road to the overdue but much anticipated GTK 4.0...

Upstreaming LLVM's Fortran "Flang" Front-End Has Been Flung Back Further

Phoronix - Thu, 04/02/2020 - 02:27
Upstreaming of LLVM's Fortran front-end developed as "f18" and being upstreamed with the Flang name was supposed to happen back in January. Three months later, the developers still are struggling to get the code into shape for integration...

Linux 5.7 Gets A Unified/User-Space-Access-Intended Accelerator Framework

Phoronix - Thu, 04/02/2020 - 01:25
The Linux 5.7 crypto subsystem updates include new drivers...

GCC 11 Will Likely Support Using LLVM's libc++

Phoronix - Wed, 04/01/2020 - 23:33
While GCC 10 isn't even out for a few more weeks, looking ahead to next year's GCC 11 release is already one interesting planned change...

Linux 5.7 Networking Changes Bring Qualcomm IPA, New Intel Driver Additions

Phoronix - Wed, 04/01/2020 - 21:25
The networking changes for the Linux 5.7 kernel have already been merged and as usual there is a lot of new wired and wireless networking driver activity...

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