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LLVM Lands APX JMPABS Support, More Advanced Performance Extensions Work Landing

Phoronix - Sun, 11/26/2023 - 19:00
Intel compiler engineers remain quite busy working not only on AVX10 family support but also plumbing in the Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) to be found with future Intel processors...

OpenMandriva Lx 5.0 Released: Powered By Linux 6.6 LTS, Their Last Release On Plasma 5

Phoronix - Sun, 11/26/2023 - 01:27
Over four years after the debut of OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 and in the interim since also working on the ROME rolling-release platform, OpenMandriva Lx 5.0 finally debuted today...

Firefox 121 Is Looking Good For Having Wayland Enabled By Default

Phoronix - Sat, 11/25/2023 - 22:17
Firefox 121 is aiming to ship with Wayland support enabled by default rather than falling back to XWayland on modern Linux desktops. So far things are looking up for this indeed remaining the case for next month's Firefox 121 stable release...

Debian's MIPS64EL CPU Port Is At Risk Due To Declining Hardware Access

Phoronix - Sat, 11/25/2023 - 21:30
Debian's MIPS64EL that is a 64-bit little endian port using the N64 ABI is at risk due to declining access for building the Debian 64-bit MIPS packages. MIPS64EL is now being treated as an "out of sync" architecture due to lacking sufficient build daemon resources for timely building new packages and if the situation doesn't improve, it may not be suitable as a release architecture for Debian 13 "Trixie"...

TUXEDO Computers Launches First All-AMD Linux Gaming Laptop

Phoronix - Sat, 11/25/2023 - 20:00
Bavarian Linux PC vendor TUXEDO Computers announced this morning the launch of the TUXEDO Sirius 16 Gen1, their first all-AMD powered Linux gaming laptop...

KDE Is Down To Just One Wayland Showstopper Bug Remaining

Phoronix - Sat, 11/25/2023 - 19:24
The KDE Plasma 6.0 feature freeze is quickly approaching and the Plasma Wayland showstopper bug list is nearly cleared out for being able to endorse the Plasma Wayland session over X11...

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