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GCC 14 vs. LLVM Clang 18 Compiler Performance On Fedora 40

Phoronix - Wed, 04/24/2024 - 23:02
One of the leading-edge benefits of Fedora Linux is that it always ships with the most up-to-date open-source compiler toolchains at release. For their spring releases each year, it typically means shipping with a GCC compiler that isn't even officially released as stable yet. With this week's release of Fedora 40, it's shipping with GCC 14.0.1 as the development version that will culminate with the inaugural GCC 14 stable release in the coming weeks. Plus Fedora 40 has all of the other latest GNU toolchain components and then over on the LLVM side is with the current LLVM 18 stable series. For those curious how GCC 14 vs. LLVM Clang 18 performance is looking, here is a wide range of C/C++ benchmarks carried out on Fedora Workstation 40 using a System76 Thelio Major workstation powered by the Zen 4 AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X.

New AMD Linux Patch Acknowledges More Zen 5 CPU Models

Phoronix - Wed, 04/24/2024 - 22:08
A new AMD Linux kernel patch queued today via "x86/urgent" for routing into the Linux 6.9 development kernel expands the range of recognized CPU model IDs for upcoming Zen 5 processors...

Red Hat Releases DNF 4.20 In Preparation For DNF5

Phoronix - Wed, 04/24/2024 - 20:55
DNF 4.20 was released this morning by Red Hat as a stepping stone toward the upcoming DNF5 package manager...

Polychromatic 0.9 OpenRazer GUI Frontend Released With Port To PyQt6

Phoronix - Wed, 04/24/2024 - 18:50
Polychromatic is the open-source software package that serves as a GUI front-end to the OpenRazer drivers for allowing Razer devices to be configured under Linux for managing keyboard/mice RGB lighting and other options. With today's Polychromatic 0.9 release there is a port for the Qt6 toolkit...

TrueNAS SCALE 24.04 Released For A Wonderful NAS Platform

Phoronix - Wed, 04/24/2024 - 18:37
The folks at iXsystems have released TrueNAS SCALEE 24.04 as the newest iteration of their Linux-based platform for network attached storage (NAS) devices. TrueNAS SCALE 24.04 brings better performance, new features, and additional hardware support...

Nginx 1.26 Released With Experimental HTTP/3 Support

Phoronix - Wed, 04/24/2024 - 18:26
Nginx 1.26 stable is out as the newest version of this popular alternative to the Apache web server while also able to work as a load balancer, reverse proxy, and HTTP cache. Nginx 1.26 incorporates the great work from the Nginx 1.25 mainline branch such as experimental HTTP/3 support...

Wine's Wayland Driver Will Finally Set The Window Title

Phoronix - Wed, 04/24/2024 - 18:10
A small but notable patch was merged to upstream Wine overnight: the window title for application windows is now actually set under Wayland...

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