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XCP-ng Initating Effort To Rewrite Xen Components In Rust

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 March, 2023

The focus of this new effort isn't to immediately rewrite the Xen virtualization hypervisor in Rust but to begin gradually working toward rewriting some of the smaller Xen Project components in the Rust programming language and to see how everything pans out...

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Linux 6.4 AMD Graphics Driver Picking Up New Power Features For The Steam Deck

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 March, 2023

A pull request of early AMDGPU kernel graphics driver changes was submitted for DRM-Next on Friday as some of the early feature work accumulating for the Linux 6.4 kernel cycle...

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LLVM 16.0 Released With New Intel/AMD CPU Support, More C++20 / C2X Features

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 March, 2023

LLVM 16 was released on Friday night as the latest half-year feature release to this open-source compiler stack. From initial AMD Zen 4 support to bringing up new Intel CPU instruction sets and processor targets for their new processors being introduced through 2024, there is a lot of exciting hardware additions in LLVM 16.0. LLVM 16.0 is also notable for faster LLD linking, Zstd compressed debug sections, stabilizing of its LoongArch target, defaulting to C++17 for Clang, and much more. Here's a look at all the exciting changes of LLVM 16...

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KDE Delivers More Wayland Fixes & Plasma 6.0 Changes This Week

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 March, 2023

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his usual weekly development summary that highlights all of the interesting desktop changes made over the course of the past seven days. This week he particularly calls out more Wayland fixes -- a common occurrence in the KDE camp...

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Wine 8.4 Released With The Early Wayland Graphics Driver Code, 51 Bug Fixes

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 March, 2023

Wine 8.4 is out as the newest version of this open-source software for running Windows games and applications under Linux and other platforms...

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Firmware Assisted Shadowing Code Posted For AMD RDNA3 - Needed For SR-IOV

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 March, 2023

A new patch series posted today is of interest and is for firmware-assisted shadowing for AMD RDNA3 (GFX11) graphics processors as it's necessary for proper SR-IOV support...

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Amazon Linux 2023 Is Running Well, Boosting EC2 Performance Over Amazon Linux 2

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 March, 2023

For those currently making use of Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) as the operating system for Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances, the newly-released Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023) is delivering some worthwhile speed-ups for maximizing your performance and value in their public cloud.

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Still Have A Use For Adobe Flash? Ruffle Is Working To Safely Emulate It In Rust

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 March, 2023

While Adobe Flash is officially -- and thankfully -- dead, those interested in Adobe Flash Player for nostalgia or archival purposes, Ruffle is working to emulate Adobe Flash support via this open-source project making use of the Rust programming language...

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Intel Prepares More Graphics Driver Code For Linux 6.4

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 March, 2023

Last week following the Linux 6.3-rc1 release Intel engineers already began sending new Intel i915 driver feature code to DRM-Next for queuing until the Linux 6.4 merge window in early May. This week another batch of "drm-intel-gt-next" material was submitted...