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LLVM Clang 19 Adds Initial "-std=c2y" Support For The Next C Standard

Phoronix - Tue, 07/02/2024 - 21:30
LLVM Clang 19 this morning landed initial support for the -std=c2y and -std=gnu2y options for targeting the next C programming language standard...

Fedora 41 Looks To Finally Say Goodbye To Python 2.7

Phoronix - Tue, 07/02/2024 - 20:29
A change proposal has been filed by Red Hat engineer Miro Hrončok for retiring Python 2.7 within Fedora 41 and to drop packages still depending upon Python 2...

Redox OS Doubles The Performance Of Its File-System & I/O Drivers

Phoronix - Tue, 07/02/2024 - 20:13
The Rust-written Redox OS open-source operating system is out with its monthly development summary that notes some interesting work taking place...

Miracle-WM v0.3 Released - Working Out To Daily-Drive This Mir-Based Wayland Compositor

Phoronix - Tue, 07/02/2024 - 20:01
Canonical engineer Matthew Kosarek has released Miracle-WM v0.3 as the newest version of this Wayland tiling compositor built atop Mir. Miracle-WM is beginning to be useful and practical enough for daily driving by its lead developer...

Microsoft's WSL2 Transitions To Linux 6.6 LTS Kernel

Phoronix - Tue, 07/02/2024 - 18:47
The kernel powering Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2) has long been using the Linux 5.15 LTS kernel while finally it's now upgraded past that aging long-term support kernel and onto the current Linux 6.6 LTS series...

Vulkan 1.3.289 Further Helps Out With Layered Driver Implementations

Phoronix - Tue, 07/02/2024 - 18:23
Vulkan 1.3.289 was released at the end of last week with a handful of clarifications/corrections to the Vulkan API specification plus one new maintenance extension...

Intel's VA-API 2.22 Library Adds VVC/H.266 Video Decode Interface

Phoronix - Tue, 07/02/2024 - 17:59
Intel engineers today released version 2.22 of libva, the driver-agnostic library for the Video Acceleration API (VA-API). Most notable with libva 2.22 is adding a new interface for Versatile Video Coding (VVC / H.266)...

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