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The New Compiler Features Of LLVM 10.0 / Clang 10.0

Phoronix - Sun, 03/08/2020 - 22:26
After running behind schedule from the planned release last month and an extra release candidate being warranted, LLVM 10.0 should be releasing this coming weeks along with its sub-projects -- most notably, the Clang 10.0 C/C++ compiler. Here is a look at the big ticket items of LLVM/Clang 10.0...

AMD Radeon "SISCHED" Support Has Been Retired

Phoronix - Sun, 03/08/2020 - 20:26
Not many AMD Radeon Linux gamers have been using the "sisched" SI machine instruction scheduler in recent times. This non-default scheduler hasn't been well maintained. Additionally, when on the RADV Vulkan driver, using the Valve-backed compiler back-end has been far superior. As such, SISCHED has now been gutted out of Mesa...

MetaInfo Creator - Easily Creating AppStream Metadata For Software

Phoronix - Sun, 03/08/2020 - 20:08
While the cross-distribution AppStream specification standardizes the software component metadata for use by Linux software centers/stores, it turns out many open-source developers aren't interested in or time limited by learning the spec and maintaining the metadata. As such, Matthias Klumpp has now developed the MetaInfo Creator for easily creating this important cross-distro metadata for packages...

KDE Developers Fixed Many Bugs This Week

Phoronix - Sun, 03/08/2020 - 19:51
Not only have GNOME developers been fixing many bugs this week ahead of the 3.36 stable desktop release next week, but coincidentally KDE developers were also going heavy on the bug fixes this week...

How many Raspberry Pis do you own?

opensource.com - Sun, 03/08/2020 - 15:00

The Raspberry Pi is so accessible and affordable, and that means it can be easy to start a collection, even unintentionally. There are now nine different boards available, and amazingly all of them are still useful for something. Being so low-powered and easy to maintain, they have a surprisingly long shelf life, and a continual ability to keep working on whatever set of tasks it's been set up to do.


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GNOME Shell + Mutter 3.36 Released Following Last Minute Fixes

Phoronix - Sun, 03/08/2020 - 08:49
In preparing for the GNOME 3.36 stable release due out on 11 March, GNOME Shell and Mutter issued their final v3.36.0 releases on Saturday...

APT 2.0 Released For Debian Package Management

Phoronix - Sun, 03/08/2020 - 05:34
Over the past year Debian developers have been working towards APT 2.0 while now it is officially released for the advanced package tool on Debian, Ubuntu, and other DEB-based platforms...

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