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Microsoft Talks Up The Concept Of Panes, Tab Reordering For Windows Terminal

Phoronix - Fri, 11/29/2019 - 13:57
This week Microsoft released Windows Terminal Preview 0.7 with some groundbreaking features... Well compared to Command Prompt and the existing PowerShell terminal, but capabilities many Linux terminal emulators have offered for years...

EXT4 For Linux 5.5 Sees New Improvements For This Mature File-System

Phoronix - Fri, 11/29/2019 - 13:06
While EXT4 is the most common Linux file-system among distributions and is quite mature at this stage, it does continue seeing noteworthy improvements every so often with new kernel releases. With Linux 5.5 there are more notable improvements on deck...

Whoops: The Linux Kernel's Spectre RSB Mitigation For PowerPC Missed Covering Some CPUs

Phoronix - Fri, 11/29/2019 - 08:31
Even with all the light shed on Spectre over the past nearly two years, with the Spectre RSB (Return Stack Buffer) disclosure that did affect IBM POWER processors it turns out the mitigations applied didn't cover all of the CPUs that should have been in place until this week...

Canonical Formulates The 32-Bit Support Strategy For Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Phoronix - Fri, 11/29/2019 - 05:19
Canonical's Ubuntu engineers in cooperation with community members have figured out their 32-bit support adjustments for the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS release...

Khronos + W3C Collaborating On SPIR-V Potentially Being The Shading Language For The Web

Phoronix - Fri, 11/29/2019 - 01:02
The W3C put out an interesting status update this week on web games technologies and the various standardization efforts at play...

Gallium3D's LLVMpipe Lands NIR Support Plus Radeon R600g NIR Support Is Forthcoming

Phoronix - Fri, 11/29/2019 - 00:02
More Mesa drivers continue to be embracing NIR as the modern intermediate representation shared between these OpenGL and Vulkan open-source implementations...

The Big Graphics Driver Update Lands In Linux 5.5 With Exciting Changes For Intel + AMD

Phoronix - Thu, 11/28/2019 - 22:56
The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) graphics/display driver updates were sent out last night for the Linux 5.5 kernel and quickly landed into the mainline tree...

Compiz Sees New Update Ahead Of The Holidays - But It's Mainly Bug Fixing

Phoronix - Thu, 11/28/2019 - 20:09
Over a decade ago all the Linux desktop rage was over the likes of Compiz, Beryl, Compiz Fusion, and the like... Ah the memories. But to much surprise, Compiz saw a new release today. Compiz 0.9.14.1 isn't the most exciting update, but the project is still alive...

PHP 7.4 Released With FFI, Typed Properties, Arrow Functions, Better Performance

Phoronix - Thu, 11/28/2019 - 19:27
PHP 7.4 is out this US Thanksgiving day as the newest feature release for the PHP scripting language. PHP 7.4 comes with a number of prominent language additions while, yes, also having even better performance on the PHP series...

Intel Comet Lake Added To RAPL Driver With Linux 5.5, New "HMEM" Driver

Phoronix - Thu, 11/28/2019 - 16:26
The ACPI and power management updates were sent in back on Tuesday for the Linux 5.5 kernel and punctually landed in the mainline tree...

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