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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...

Intel GCC Patches + PRM Update Adds SERIALIZE Instruction, Confirm Atom+Core Hybrid CPUs

Phoronix - Wed, 04/01/2020 - 18:48
Intel has seemingly just updated their public programming reference manual as well as sending out some new patches to the GCC compiler for supporting new instructions on yet-to-be-released CPUs...

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