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Intel Looking To Raise SPIR-V Backend To Becoming An Official LLVM Target

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 December, 2024

The SPIR-V target within the LLVM compiler for outputting to this common IR used across different accelerator/device types, different APIs from Vulkan and SYCL to GLSL / OpenCL / HLSL, and adapted for a variety of innovative use-cases could soon become an official target within LLVM...

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GNOME 48 Mutter To Enjoy Improved Cursor Scaling For Wine Wayland & More

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 December, 2024

Merged this week to GNOME's Mutter compositor for the GNOME 48 release is support for the wp_viewport protocol for cursor surfaces in order to provide a nicer experience on cursor scaling...

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Intel Panther Lake & Clearwater Forest Power Management Patches For Linux 6.14

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 December, 2024

Intel engineer and Linux power management subsystem maintainer Rafael Wysocki queued up several power management related patches this week for Intel's upcoming Core Ultra "Panther Lake" processors as well as the next-gen Xeon Clearwater Forest processors...

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CentOS Stream 10 Reaches GA With Linux 6.12, Python 3.12 & No X.Org Server

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 December, 2024

Following the recent Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Beta, CentOS Stream 10 has now reached general availability status. CentOS Stream 10 defines the upstream Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 that the RHEL 10 minor versions are created from and ultimately a preview of what's coming down the pipe for future RHEL 10 releases...

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Btrfs SIG Established For Advancing Btrfs Interests On Fedora

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 December, 2024

While Fedora Workstation has defaulted to using the Btrfs file-system for the past four years, only this past summer was the idea raised of creating a Fedora special interest group (SIG) around Btrfs to help advance efforts around this CoW file-system for Fedora Linux integration. This week marks the Fedora Btrfs SIG officially being established...

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LibreOffice 25.2 Beta 1 Office Suite Ready For Testing

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 December, 2024

Building off last month's release of the LibreOffice 25.2 Alpha release for this free software office suite, out today is the first beta release of the upcoming LibreOffice 25.2...

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Fedora COSMIC Desktop Spin Proposed For Fedora 42

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 December, 2024

A new "Fedora COSMIC" spin of Fedora Linux has been proposed that would feature the Rust-based COSMIC desktop environment currently being developed by Linux PC vendor System76...

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Intel Arc B580 Graphics Open-Source Driver Linux Gaming Performance

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 December, 2024

Last week Intel announced the Arc B-Series Battlemage graphics cards as their first Xe2 discrete GPUs. Ahead of the Arc B580 graphics card hitting Internet retailers tomorrow, today the review embargo lifts on the Intel Arc B580. Here is what to expect from the Linux driver support at launch for the Intel Battlemage graphics cards and how the Arc B580 is performing for Linux gaming/graphics workloads.

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Intel Arc B580 Delivers Promising Linux GPU Compute Potential For Battlemage

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 December, 2024

Now that the initial Intel Arc B580 graphics card gaming review on Linux is out, for productivity-minded users you may be more curious about the GPU compute potential... Here are some initial OpenCL and Level Zero results for the Intel Arc B580 graphics card compared to the Intel Arc A-Series and the AMD Radeon and NVIDIA GeForce competition under Linux.