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Ubuntu 25.04 Planning To Use GCC 15 As Well As Exploring Greater LLVM Use

Phoronix - Fri, 12/06/2024 - 09:30
Canonical's Matthieu Clemenceau as the Engineering Director for the Ubuntu Foundations Team has provided a public roadmap around some of the plans for Ubuntu 25.04. This next Ubuntu Linux (non-LTS) release that is due out in April is set to enjoy more performance optimizations and other exciting bits...

Linux 6.12 Officially Promoted To Being An LTS Kernel

Phoronix - Fri, 12/06/2024 - 05:42
Linux stable maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman officially designated Linux 6.12 as this year's long-term support (LTS) kernel version...

Redox OS Makes Progress On Emulator Support, Better Documentation & Hardware Fixes

Phoronix - Fri, 12/06/2024 - 05:16
The Rust-based Redox OS original open-source operating system project is out with a new status report to detail the enhancements they have made over the past several weeks...

COSMIC Alpha 4 Released For System76's Rust-Based Desktop

Phoronix - Thu, 12/05/2024 - 23:46
System76 today released the newest development/testing version of their Rust-based desktop environment designed for their Pop!_OS Linux distribution...

NVIDIA 565.77 Linux Driver Released As First Stable R565 Build

Phoronix - Thu, 12/05/2024 - 23:13
For the past month and a half the NVIDIA R565 Linux driver series has been in public beta with a number of (X)Wayland improvements, DMA-BUF enhancements, VKD3D fixes, and a variety of other enhancements. Today the NVIDIA 565.77 Linux driver was released as the first stable build in the series...

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