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Patches Posted For Review Adding COBOL Frontend To GCC Compiler

The COBOL programming language may be 65 years old since its original release but the mainline GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) in 2025 might finally see upstream support for it...

2024-12-13 12:20

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Intel Arc B580 Battlemage Linux Workstation Graphics Performance

Yesterday I shared the Linux gaming performance and OpenCL / GPU compute performance for the new Intel Arc B580 Battlemage graphics card. Today the focus is a look at how well the Linux workstation graphics performance for Battlemage is looking relativ...

2024-12-13 10:20

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VKD3D-Proton 2.14 Released With New Features For D3D12 On Vulkan

Hans-Kristian Arntzen with Valve just released VKD3D-Proton 2.14 as the newest version of this Direct3D 12 implementation built atop the Vulkan API for Valve's Steam Play (Proton)...

2024-12-13 08:59

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Ubuntu 25.04 Planning To Ship With The Linux 6.14 Kernel

This shouldn't be too surprising especially after Canonical's commitment last year to always ship the latest upstream kernel version for Ubuntu releases moving forward, but the plan was confirmed today that Ubuntu 25.04 intends to ship with the Linux 6...

2024-12-13 06:48

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

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...

2024-12-13 06:35

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

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...

2024-12-13 06:21

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

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 processo...

2024-12-13 06:06

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

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 pre...

2024-12-12 19:15

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Btrfs SIG Established For Advancing Btrfs Interests On Fedora

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 ...

2024-12-12 14:48

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LibreOffice 25.2 Beta 1 Office Suite Ready For Testing

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...

2024-12-12 12:33

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Fedora COSMIC Desktop Spin Proposed For Fedora 42

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...

2024-12-12 10:48

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Intel Arc B580 Graphics Open-Source Driver Linux Gaming Performance

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...

2024-12-12 09:00

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Intel Arc B580 Delivers Promising Linux GPU Compute Potential For Battlemage

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 graphic...

2024-12-12 09:00

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Linux Developers Consider Ending 32-bit KVM Host Virtualization Support`

Earlier this month as part of patches for cleaning up x86 32-bit kernel code for x86_64 systems, there was a patch to drop support for 32-bit x86 KVM host support. That patch has now been split off into its own patch series with also now raising the pr...

2024-12-12 08:29

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Intel Begins Readying Graphics Driver Changes For The Linux 6.14 Kernel

While the Linux 6.13 merge window only recently ended and that kernel won't be out until around the end of January followed by the start of the Linux 6.14 merge window, Intel software engineers on Wednesday sent out their first two pull requests to DRM...

2024-12-12 07:00

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AMD GFX 11.5.3 Graphics Support Added To Mesa 25.0

AMD has added support for another RDNA 3.5 refresh variant to the Mesa graphics driver code for Linux systems...

2024-12-12 06:38

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KDE Gear 24.12 Released With Many Improvements To KDE Apps

Right ahead of the holidays, KDE Gear 24.12 is out to deliver four months worth of refinements to the KDE desktop applications...

2024-12-12 06:13

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Linux Mint 22.1 Beta Released With Cinnamon 6.4 Desktop, Updated Apt Code

The beta release of Linux Mint 22.1 "Xia" is now available for testing of this desktop Linux distribution based on Ubuntu LTS releases and known for its Cinnamon desktop environment...

2024-12-12 05:49

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PanVK Advertises "Broken" Vulkan 1.1 Support With Mesa 25.0-devel

The PanVK open-source Vulkan API driver for Arm Mali graphics hardware within Mesa is now advertising Vulkan 1.1 support rather than Vulkan 1.0. But it's known to be "broken" so don't be too excited about it yet...

2024-12-12 05:21

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Linux Fixes Regression That Broke File Names With ❤️ & Other Special Characters

Linus Torvalds took to reverting some code tonight within the mainline Linux kernel that inadvertently had broken support having filenames with ❤️ and other special Unicode characters in filenames when on file-systems with case-folding (optional ca...

2024-12-11 20:47

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