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Rust-CUDA Project Restarted For Enabling NVIDIA CUDA Kernels Within Rust Code

Phoronix - Sun, 02/02/2025 - 21:41
The open-source Rust CUDA project has been "rebooted" to get back onto the effort of allowing NVIDIA CUDA compute kernels to be coded within the Rust programming language...

GNOME 48 Lands HDR Support Bits At The Last Minute

Phoronix - Sun, 02/02/2025 - 19:55
On Saturday was the GNOME 48 feature freeze and landing during the final moments of this feature development period was new High Dynamic Range (HDR) code for Mutter and the toggling within the GNOME Control Center...

LLVM 20.1-rc1 Released For Testing This Updated Compiler Stack

Phoronix - Sun, 02/02/2025 - 19:47
The first release candidate working towards the stable release of LLVM 20 is now available for testing...

Open-Source 0 A.D. RTS Game Adds AMD FSR Support & Vulkan Renderer

Phoronix - Sun, 02/02/2025 - 19:34
It's been a while since having anything new to report on the 0 A.D. open-source real-time strategy (RTS) game but this week marked the 0 A.D. Alpha 27 release that they also hope will be their last alpha version...

GNOME Text Editor Gains A Sidebar, GTK's Android Backend & Other Excitement This Week

Phoronix - Sun, 02/02/2025 - 19:21
This Week in GNOME is out with its newest development summary as we embark on the GNOME 48 feature freeze...

Steam Linux Use Dips For January 2025 Amid Odd Survey Numbers

Phoronix - Sun, 02/02/2025 - 08:14
The Steam on Linux marketshare ended 2024 with a 2.29% against Windows at 96.1% and macOS at 1.61%. The Steam Survey numbers for January were posted this evening and they show a sizable dip for the Linux gaming use but there are also other odd discrepancies with the updated monthly figures...

GTK's X11 Backend Now Deprecated, Planned For Removal In GTK 5

Phoronix - Sat, 02/01/2025 - 22:25
GTK developers have been holding another hackfest this week for the annual FOSDEM developer conference happening this weekend in Brussels. GTK developers are working toward the GTK 4.18 stable release and continuing to think more about GTK 5...

gendwarfksyms Tool Added To Linux 6.14 To Help With Rust Push

Phoronix - Sat, 02/01/2025 - 22:11
Merged on Friday to the Linux 6.14 kernel were the Kbuild feature changes for this cycle. Most notable with these kernel build changes is the introduction of the gendwarfksyms tool that is used as part of the ongoing Rust programming language push within the Linux kernel...

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