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AdaptiveCpp 24.10 Delivers More Performance Optimizations

Phoronix - Sat, 12/21/2024 - 19:48
AdaptiveCpp 24.10 is out today as this implementation of SYCL and C++ standard parallelism for CPUs and GPUs across hardware vendors. This compiler for C++ heterogeneous programming models has tacked on more features and additional performance optimizations with this update...

GNOME User Sharing Ported From C To Rust, libadwaita Adds Adaptive Preview Mode

Phoronix - Sat, 12/21/2024 - 19:21
It's not only KDE seeing nice improvements ahead of the holidays but GNOME developers were also busy this week preparing new improvements to their open-source desktop stack. There's been some rather exciting changes on the GNOME front as we prepare to cap off the year...

KDE Plasma 6.3 Improving Game Controller Joystick Support, Many Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 12/21/2024 - 18:58
While the Christmas holidays are quickly approach, KDE developers remain busy working on new features for the upcoming Plasma 6.3 desktop as well as continuing to land many bug fixes...

AMD ROCm 6.3.1 Released With Instinct MI325X Support, ROCm Runfile Installer

Phoronix - Sat, 12/21/2024 - 09:47
Building off the ROCm 6.3 release from earlier this month, there's been a Friday night drop of ROCm 6.3.1 with some rather exciting end-of-year improvements...

Wine 10.0-rc3 Released With A 16 Year Old Bug "Fixed"

Phoronix - Sat, 12/21/2024 - 09:21
The third weekly release candidate of Wine 10.0 is now available for testing with another 15 bugs fixed this week...

Linux 6.13-rc4 To Fix A Nasty USB Problem Plaguing The Kernel For A Few Weeks

Phoronix - Sat, 12/21/2024 - 03:55
Merged to Linux Git minutes ago and ahead of the Linux 6.13-rc4 tagging on Sunday were this week's set of USB fixes that are particularly noteworthy. Most significant is fixing a USB regression that had been present in the stack since the Linux 6.13 merge window last month...

AMD Launches A YouTube Channel For Developers

Phoronix - Sat, 12/21/2024 - 03:03
If you are looking for some interesting technical content to watch over the holidays or end-of-year downtime, AMD shared today that they have launched their own YouTube channel for developer-related content...

OpenSUSE Announces New "YQPkg" Package Management Tool

Phoronix - Sat, 12/21/2024 - 01:12
The openSUSE project announced today YQPkg as a new package management tool for openSUSE Linux distributions...

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