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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...

Intel Battlemage, NVIDIA RTX 50 & Linux Kernel Excitement From January

Phoronix - Sat, 02/01/2025 - 20:00
During the month of January on Phoronix were 292 original Linux/open-source related news articles and another 13 featured-length Linux hardware reviews and other multi-page benchmark specials. Here's a look back at the most exciting Linux/open-source news and content over the past month...

Linux 6.14 RISC-V Kernel Adds Support For T-Head Vector Extensions, GhostWrite

Phoronix - Sat, 02/01/2025 - 19:44
The RISC-V CPU architecture feature updates have now been submitted and merged for the nearly-over Linux 6.14 merge window...

KDE Plasma 6.3: "It's Looking Pretty Good!"

Phoronix - Sat, 02/01/2025 - 19:22
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his traditional weekly recap of all the interesting KDE Plasma changes for the past week. With less than two weeks until the Plasma 6.3 stable release, Nate Graham began his weekly update by remarking that the Plasma 6.3 desktop is "looking pretty good!"..

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