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LLVM 18.1-rc1 Released For Enabling New Intel CPU Features, More C23 & C++23

Phoronix - Tue, 01/30/2024 - 09:30
Following the recent branching of LLVM 18, LLVM 18.1-rc1 was released today as the first test candidate for this half-year update of this widely-used open-source compiler stack...

GCC 14 Lands Working Support For AMD RDNA2 & RDNA3 GPU Offloading

Phoronix - Tue, 01/30/2024 - 05:27
As a follow-up to last week's article around the GCC compiler seeing patches for AMD RDNA3 GPU support so that it's "working for most purposes", that code has now been merged and it's also been confirmed to also bring the RDNA2 support up to a working state...

A Linux Hardware Vendor Is Valuing Itself At $75,000,000 USD

Phoronix - Tue, 01/30/2024 - 03:53
Linux hardware vendor Purism that is known for their crowd-funded Librem 5 smartphone effort, Linux-loaded laptops, and other privacy-minded wares announced a first public offering of Purism stock on the StartEngine platform...

RHEL's Source Code Access Change Is Causing Issues For CentOS SIGs

Phoronix - Tue, 01/30/2024 - 03:17
It looks like the Red Hat change restricting access to RHEL sources that was announced last year is having the unintended consequence of causing some headaches for CentOS special interest group (SIG) projects...

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