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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...

How to Upgrade to Linux Mint 20 Ulyana

Tecmint - Sat, 07/11/2020 - 13:00
Linux Mint 19.3 receives support until April 2023, but you may want to upgrade to the latest version of Mint – Linux Mint 20 – to enjoy the numerous enhancements and cool features. In

Cling C++ Interpreter Looking To Upstream More Code Into LLVM

Phoronix - Sat, 07/11/2020 - 12:01
Not to be confused with Clang as the well known C/C++ compiler front-end for the LLVM compiler, Cling is a separate project as an interactive, JIT-based C++ interpreter. Cling has been in development for years and at least partially is looking to upstream where possible back into LLVM...

Linux Might Pursue x86_64 Micro-Architecture Feature Levels

Phoronix - Sat, 07/11/2020 - 04:16
Stemming from the recent GNU glibc work on better handling modern CPU optimizations with newer instruction set extensions across Intel and AMD product families, the concept of x86-64 micro-architecture feature levels is being talked about by open-source/Linux developers...

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