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In the recent discussion over the GNU Gold linker being deprecated, there was the usual LLVM vs. GCC compiler/toolchain debate. Fortunately, with recently working on some initial benchmarks of the GCC 15 compiler I was following that up with some fresh LLVM Clang compiler comparison metrics on the same AMD Zen 5 hardware.

Linux running in a PDF? This hack is as bizarre as it is brilliant  ZDNet

Intel just published new CPU microcode for Alder Lake, Emerald Rapids, Ice Lake, Raptor Lake, Sapphire Rapids, Sierra Forest, and other platforms going back to Coffee Lake H. There are five new security issues being addressed plus a number of different functional issues being resolved...

Linux gaming overlay MangoHud version 0.8 is out now with Intel GPU support, improved Wayland keybinds  GamingOnLinux

I Just Reinstalled Garuda Linux, and These 3 Things Surprised Me  How-To Geek

While the GNOME 48 feature and UI freezes went into effect just a little more than one week ago, a freeze exception was granted for merging support in GNOME Shell for grouping notifications on a per-app basis...

Those making use of the GNOME Web "Epiphany" web browser with the upcoming Ubuntu 25.04 release will be able to enjoy playing more popular web videos thanks to a packaging change...

Ubuntu 25.04's GNOME Web Browser Will Be Able To Play More Web Videos By Default  Phoronix

What Is rclone on Linux and What Can You Do With It?  Review Geek

What Is rclone on Linux and What Can You Do With It?  How-To Geek

Sid Meier's Civilization VII is out now with Linux support and Steam Deck Verified  GamingOnLinux

The Panfrost Gallium3D driver has merged initial OpenCL C infrastructure into Mesa 25.1 for allowing OpenCL compute on Arm Mali graphics using this open-source Linux driver stack...

FLAC 1.5 is out today as the newest feature update to the software built around the Free Lossless Audio Codec...

SystemBC RAT Now Targets Linux, Spreading Ransomware and Infostealers  HackRead

Ubuntu Was My First Distro—Here's Why We Went Our Separate Ways  How-To Geek

Ubuntu Was My First Distro—Here's Why We Went Our Separate Ways  Review Geek

After Recent Kernel Drama, Rust for Linux Policy Put in Place  It's FOSS News

Out just ahead of Valentine's Day is the much anticipated KDE Plasma 6.3 desktop release for further advancing this Qt6/KF6-based open-source desktop...

KDE Plasma 6.3 Desktop Environment Officially Released, This Is What’s New  9to5Linux

AOMP 20.0-2 was released on Monday as the newest update to this AMD downstream of the LLVM/Clang/Flang code that is focused on delivering the latest staging/testing patches around OpenMP offloading to AMD GPUs using ROCm. Many of AMD's AMDGPU/OpenMP patches end up being upstreamed into LLVM proper while AOMP is the staging area for those wanting to have the latest and best experience for Clang C/C++ and Flang Fortran offloading to AMD Instinct/Radeon hardware...