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Wine Making Improvements To Its GitLab, Eyes Contributor Covenant For CoC

Phoronix - Thu, 09/12/2024 - 18:34
Wine project leader Alexandre Julliard has recently been devoting some time to enhancing their GitLab deployment with new features and also in welcoming the Mono project to their GitLab instance. In case you missed it, Microsoft recently shifted stewardship of Mono over to Wine...

Gentoo Linux Touts Better MIPS & Alpha Platform Support

Phoronix - Thu, 09/12/2024 - 08:55
While Gentoo Linux recently ended their support for Itanium (IA-64) hardware, this popular source-based Linux distribution continues to support other aging platforms... Today they sent out an announcement highlighting their improved support for MIPS and Alpha based hardware...

VirtualBox 7.1 Released With Improved UI, Wayland Clipboard Sharing

Phoronix - Thu, 09/12/2024 - 02:04
Oracle today released version 7.1 of their VirtualBox virtualization software with an improved GUI, Wayland clipboard sharing support, OCI integration improvements, and other enhancements...

AMD Submits Initial Zen 5 Enablement For LLVM/Clang Compiler

Phoronix - Thu, 09/12/2024 - 00:51
Early in the year we enjoyed seeing AMD Zen 5 "znver5" support upstreamed for the GCC 14 compiler in making it into that annual GNU Compiler Collection feature release. It was great seeing AMD Zen 5 support make it into this open-source compiler well ahead of any Zen 5 products being announced. Since then the GCC support for the new Znver5 target has continued to be improve upon meanwhile we've been waiting to see similar treatment for the LLVM/Clang compiler stack. Finally this week that AMD Zen 5 (znver5) support has been submitted for review in upstreaming it for LLVM...

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