Synopsys DesignWare ARC HS CPUs Now Supported By GNU C Library
The toolchain support for the Synopsys DesignWare ARC HS processors is now ironed out with the GNU C Library (glibc) finally mainlining the ARC port...
Linus Torvalds' Initial Comment On Rust Code Prospects Within The Linux Kernel
Kernel developers appear to be eager to debate the merits of potentially allowing Rust code within the Linux kernel. Linus Torvalds himself has made some initial remarks on the topic ahead of the Linux Plumbers 2020 conference where the matter will be discussed at length...
There Finally Is Work On Shipping Mozilla's WebRender For Some Linux Environments
While Mozilla has been gradually enabling WebRender out-of-the-box in more Windows configurations with succeeding Firefox releases, up to now there hasn't been much visible effort in getting WebRender enabled out-of-the-box for any Linux configurations. But fortunately that is finally changing...
KDE Plasma 5.20 Seeing More Wayland Fixes
While KDE Plasma 5.19 is already in fairly good shape with regards to its Wayland session, Plasma 5.20 is looking to offer even better support for this native Wayland environment along with many other enhancements...
Linux 5.8 Formally Adds The Inclusive Terminology Guidelines
Merged overnight into the Linux kernel source tree are the new guidelines concerning the use of "inclusive terminology" for future code...
Cling C++ Interpreter Looking To Upstream More Code Into LLVM
Not to be confused with Clang as the well known C/C++ compiler front-end for the LLVM compiler, Cling is a separate project as an interactive, JIT-based C++ interpreter. Cling has been in development for years and at least partially is looking to upstream where possible back into LLVM...
Linux Might Pursue x86_64 Micro-Architecture Feature Levels
Stemming from the recent GNU glibc work on better handling modern CPU optimizations with newer instruction set extensions across Intel and AMD product families, the concept of x86-64 micro-architecture feature levels is being talked about by open-source/Linux developers...
NVMe ZNS Support Coming To Linux 5.9
Landing in the block subsystem's "-next" tree today is ZNS support for NVMe drives...
AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT vs. Intel Core i9 10900K Linux Gaming Performance
Following the 130+ benchmarks of the AMD Ryzen 3000XT series earlier in the week looking at the CPU/system performance on Ubuntu Linux, here is our first look at the Linux gaming performance with putting the Ryzen 9 3900XT up head-to-head against the Intel Core i9 10900K.
GCC 11 Compiler Lands Intel Sapphire Rapids + Alder Lake Support
Landing in the GNU Compiler Collection 11 (GCC 11) codebase this morning is the Sapphire Rapids and Alder Lake enablement...