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Rust Lands Experimental Cranelift-Based Code Generator - Much Faster Debug Build Times

Phoronix - Wed, 10/28/2020 - 01:54
Landing yesterday within the Rust code-base is the initial version of a Cranelift code generator back-end. By leveraging the Cranelift code generator that is developed as part of the Bytecode Alliance for WebAssembly, Rustc with Cranelift can experince much faster debug builds...

A Look At The Performance Improvements With System76 Pop!_OS 20.10

Phoronix - Wed, 10/28/2020 - 00:00
At the end of last week System76 released Pop!_OS 20.10 as their customized distribution built atop Ubuntu 20.10 Groovy Gorilla. For those curious here are some benchmarks of System76's Pop!_OS 20.10 versus 20.04 using the Thelio Major with AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X and Radeon RX 5700 XT graphics.

Fedora 33 Released With Workstation Using Btrfs By Default

Phoronix - Tue, 10/27/2020 - 22:06
Fedora 33 has just been released as the last major update to this Red Hat sponsored Linux distribution for 2020...

AMD To Acquire Xilinx In $35 Billion Stock Deal

Phoronix - Tue, 10/27/2020 - 19:00
Following the rumors earlier this month that AMD was in talks to acquire Xilinx, a deal has been announced this morning...

Linux 5.11 To Bring Early Bits Around DisplayPort 2.0, Orphans The Frame-Buffer Layer

Phoronix - Tue, 10/27/2020 - 18:52
While Linux 5.10-rc1 was just released two days ago, the first pull request to DRM-Next of various changes was submitted today in beginning to stage material for inclusion with next year's Linux 5.11 kernel release...

The 2020 State Of Wayland Support For Chrome/Chromium - Aiming For H2'2021 Default

Phoronix - Tue, 10/27/2020 - 18:32
At this week's virtual Embedded Linux Conference was a talk on Monday by Igalia engineer Maksim Sisov as to the state of native Wayland support for the open-source Chromium web browser and in turn Google Chrome...

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