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FreeBSD Working On Improving Its Audio Stack & Creating Graphical OS Installer

Phoronix - Fri, 05/03/2024 - 22:20
The FreeBSD project has published its Q1'2024 status report to outline various advancements over the past few months...

FEX 2405 Gets Close To Running Far Cry On ARM Linux Systems

Phoronix - Fri, 05/03/2024 - 19:45
FEX as the open-source project to run x86/x86_64 binaries on AArch64 Linux systems is out with its newest monthly release. With FEX 2405, they are close to having the game Far Cry (2004) running on ARM Linux devices...

Mold 2.31 Now ~10% Faster When Linking Very Large, Debug Info Enabled Binaries

Phoronix - Fri, 05/03/2024 - 19:27
Rui Ueyama announced the release of Mold 2.31 today as the newest version of this high speed linker alternative to LLVM LLD and GNU Gold...

Fwupd 1.9.19 Supports New Docks, Incorporates More Fixes

Phoronix - Fri, 05/03/2024 - 19:19
LVFS/Fwupd lead developer Richard Hughes has released Fwupd 1.9.19 as the newest update to this open-source firmware updating solution for Linux systems...

Intel Talks Up Their Latest Compiler Toolchain Enhancements For AVX10.1, AMX & More

Phoronix - Fri, 05/03/2024 - 16:00
Intel software engineer Victor Rodriguez presented at the Open-Source Summit North America last month on their open-source compiler toolchain work for enabling ISA capabilities of upcoming Intel CPUs as well as using simulation tools for helping to test compiler enhancements/optimizations moving forward...

OpenZFS 2.2.4 Released With Linux 6.8 Support

Phoronix - Fri, 05/03/2024 - 12:01
OpenZFS 2.2.4 was released on Thursday evening to provide the latest ZFS file-system support on Linux and FreeBSD platforms...

Dell Laptop Platform Profile Patches Being Worked On For Linux

Phoronix - Fri, 05/03/2024 - 12:00
A patch recently posted to the Linux kernel mailing list is working on implementing ACPI Platform Profile support for modern Dell laptops to allow users to have more control over their balanced / cool / quiet / performance behavior of the laptop and its resulting impact on the fan noise / cooling performance...

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