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Valve Publishes Steam Survey Numbers For April 2024

Phoronix - Thu, 05/02/2024 - 08:11
For those that were hoping Steam on Linux numbers would crack the 2% marketshare for April, unfortunately, that didn't happen...

Unleashing the potential of Intel® IPU with Red Hat OpenShift

Red Hat News - Thu, 05/02/2024 - 08:00
Red Hat and Intel are collaborating on a joint solution that more seamlessly integrates Intel® IPU with Red Hat OpenShift, propelling cloud and edge computing into a new era of performance and scalability.The solution brings together Intel’s latest leading programmable network device, the Intel® Infrastructure Processing Unit (Intel® IPU) E2000 Series with Red Hat OpenShift. This solution, shown in the following diagram, is designed for performance at scale under real world workloads and opens up a wide array of use cases through the ability to flexibly service chain network functions at

Proposal Raised To Deprecate "-Ofast" For The LLVM/Clang Compiler

Phoronix - Thu, 05/02/2024 - 03:00
Some that crave the absolute best possible performance sometimes build their software with the "-Ofast" optimization level that is a step above "-O3" but comes with the risk of potentially unsafe math. LLVM developers are now weighing whether to deprecate -Ofast to either remove it or have it just be an alias for the -O3 optimizations...

SDL 3.1.2 Preview Prefers PipeWire Over PulseAudio, Fixes XWayland Mouse Warp

Phoronix - Thu, 05/02/2024 - 01:23
The newest SDL3 development release is out today with PipeWire preferred over PulseAudio and other changes...

Nano 8.0 Text Editor Released With Modern Bindings Option

Phoronix - Thu, 05/02/2024 - 00:47
Kicking off a new month of open-source releases is the release of the GNU Nano 8.0 text editor...

Serpent OS Close To Having A System Installer & Being Able To Test On Real Hardware

Phoronix - Thu, 05/02/2024 - 00:00
Serpent OS lead developer Ikey Doherty published a monthly status update for this original Linux distribution, which points to having a working OS installer soon so users can begin trying out this creation on real hardware...

PCI-SIG Provides CopprLink Cable Specs For PCIe 5.0 & PCIe 6.0

Phoronix - Wed, 05/01/2024 - 22:00
Last November the PCI-SIG announced CopprLink as the PCI Express cable name for both internal and external cabling. Today the embargo has lifted on the CopprLink cable specifications for both PCIe 5.0 and PCIe 6.0...

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