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Intel Speeds Up ISPC Via LLVM/Clang LTO  Phoronix

Intel has released a new version of ISPC, their Implicit SPMD Program Compiler. The ISPC 1.22 release is clocking in a few percent faster across the board as with their release builds they are now making use of LLVM Clang's link-time optimizations (LTO) for speeding up the binaries...

You Can Now Install Linux Kernel 6.6 on Ubuntu, Here’s How  9to5Linux

A change proposal currently undergoing discussion for Fedora 40 would change their toolchain's (BFD) linker to error out on potential security issues. Currently BFD is emitting warnings on potential security problems but the F40 proposal is to instead error out so the program being built will fail to link when hitting recognized security issues...

Fedora 40 Looking To Change Linker To Error Out On Security Issues  Phoronix

Linux Foundation wants to defragment telecom CNF efforts  SDxCentral

Proton Experimental fixes controls in Starfield and supports ...  GamingOnLinux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.3 delivers more container support than ever  ZDNet

Writing useful terminal TUI on Linux with dialog and jq  Fedora Magazine

Vivaldi Web Browser Coming Soon to Flathub  OMG! Ubuntu!

Framework 13 With AMD Ryzen 7040 Series Makes For A Great ...  Phoronix

How to change the hostname on Ubuntu  XDA Developers

For those in the market for an AMD Ryzen 7040 series (Zen 4) laptop, the Framework 13 laptop is a great option for those wanting a Linux-friendly device and is a rare breed in being a completely upgradeable laptop similar to Framework's Intel laptop models. I've been testing out the Framework Laptop 13 the past month and after a BIOS update has been working out wonderfully on Linux.

The GNOME GTK toolkit is introducing support for graphics offloading within the toolkit. This new GTK "GraphicsOffload" support is Wayland-only at this time and not working either for non-Linux platforms...

GTK 4.14 Adding Graphics Offloading Capabilities Under Wayland  Phoronix

New Open Source HW/SW solution from MIKROE enables many hundreds of Click boards to be hot-plugged into Linux development environment  Yahoo Finance

Intel Lunar Lake Graphics Introducing "CMRR" Adaptive VRR Feature  Phoronix

A new feature coming to next-generation Intel graphics display hardware has been revealed in new open-source Linux graphics driver patches: CMRR as an extension of the existing adaptive-sync variable rate refresh (VRR) functionality...

As part of their work on enabling Advanced Performance Extensions, Intel compiler engineers today posted a set of GNU Compiler Collection patches for enabling the APX NDD...

Thanks to prolific Mesa RADV contributor Samuel Pitoiset of Valve's Linux graphics team, a fix is on the way for addressing various issues with Unreal Engine 4 and Unreal Engine 5 games running on Linux...