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Git Developers Discuss The Possibility Of Beginning To Use Rust Code

Phoronix - Sat, 01/13/2024 - 23:41
The latest open-source project eyeing the possibility of beginning to allow the Rust programming language to be used within its codebase is the Git project...

KVM With Linux 6.8 Adds Intel LAM For Guests, More Confidential VMs Work

Phoronix - Sat, 01/13/2024 - 23:30
The KVM virtualization changes for the in-development Linux 6.8 kernel is quite heavy on the feature side...

Fedora 40 Looks To Ship AMD ROCm 6 For End-To-End Open-Source GPU Acceleration

Phoronix - Sat, 01/13/2024 - 22:40
Fedora 40 is looking at shipping the AMD ROCm 6.x GPU compute stack to offer "end-to-end open-source GPU acceleration" with ease for this Red Hat funded Linux distribution...

Intel Submits Latest CXL Feature Code For Linux 6.8

Phoronix - Sat, 01/13/2024 - 21:56
Intel engineer Dan Williams continues leading the charge around Compute Express Link (CXL) enablement for the Linux kernel...

KDE Reduces CPU Usage On Wayland When Moving The Pointer & Other Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 01/13/2024 - 19:52
After a few weeks hiatus due to the holidays, KDE developer Nate Graham is back in the saddle with his weekly development reports around KDE...

Wine 9.0-rc5 Released With 22 Fixes From Game Crashes To Performance Issues

Phoronix - Sat, 01/13/2024 - 05:53
The fifth release candidate of Wine 9.0 is now available for enjoying Windows games and applications on Linux, Chrome OS, and other platforms...

PulseAudio 17.0 Released With A Few New Features

Phoronix - Sat, 01/13/2024 - 04:18
While most modern desktop Linux distributions have migrated over to PipeWire for the roles once handled by PulseAudio (and JACK, among others), for those still relying on the PulseAudio sound server the PulseAudio 17.0 release was made available today...

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