Showing Your Support During COVID-19
If it weren't bad enough having to deal with the pressure applied by ad-blockers over the years, as a result of uncertainty around the novel coronavirus, ad-rates have been depressed further. This impact was outlined at the end of a recent article while there was an inquiry about any Phoronix Premium special during this time, so here is the COVID-19 deal for Phoronix Premium for $19...
Ubuntu 20.10 Might Be The "Groovy Gorilla"
Either a ploy by Ubuntu developers / Canonical staffers or it's looking like Ubuntu 20.10 could be known as the Groovy Gorilla...
Intel ISPC 1.13 Compiler Brings Performance Boost To AVX-512 Systems
Intel's ISPC compiler (Implicit SPMD Program Compiler) for targeting its C-based single-program, multiple data language is out now with a new feature release...
SDL2 Sees Support For A Number Of Additional Controllers, Gamepads
A number of additional game controllers / gamepads / input devices have been added to the SDL2 code-base in recent days...
Marvell ThunderX3 Machine Model Pending For The GCC Compiler
Last month Marvell announced the ThunderX3 server processors with up to 96 ARM cores per SoC and with 4-way SMT means up to 384 threads per socket. This 7nm Arm server processor also supports eight DDR4-3200 memory channels, 64 lanes of PCIe 4.0, and other advancements to provide more competitiveness in the Arm server space. Marvell is now working on getting the ThunderX3 software support ironed out, including for the GCC compiler...
Mesa Trying Out Gitlab Milestones For Trying Better To Avoid Regressions
Due to unclear communication over patches queued for a given Mesa point release and ensuring all relevant patches are included, Mesa developers will begin making use of Gitlab's "milestones" functionality for tracking the work to be included in the next point release...
LibreOffice 7.0 Finally Retiring Its Adobe Flash Export Support
Many likely didn't realize the functionality was still in place, but LibreOffice 7.0 will finally phase out its export support for Adobe Flash (SWF)...
Fedora 32 Cleared For Release Next Week
After it was delayed last week, Fedora 32 will now be released next week...
KDE Releases Its April 2020 Applications Bundle
KDE today released its April 2020 Apps Update, what formerly would have been known as KDE Applications 20.04...
WebGPU Support Begins Coming Together In Firefox Nightly Builds
The latest Firefox Nightly builds have the experimental WebGPU support working in early form. WebGPU is the W3C-backed web standard for modern graphics and compute that is based upon concepts from the likes of Vulkan and Direct3D 12...