LLVM 10.0's Release Is Very Close With RC2 Available
The release of LLVM 10.0 is now upon us with the second and last planned release candidate issued at the end of last week...
Fedora's 32-bit ARM Xfce Image Demoted While Fedora Workstation AArch64 Gets Promoted
Issues with Fedora's 32-bit ARM Xfce desktop spin will no longer be treated as a release blocker for the Linux distribution but instead the Fedora Workstation for 64-bit ARM (AArch64) will be considered a blocking issue...
Nouveau Gallium3D Finally Seeing Mesa Shader Disk Cache For Faster Game Load Times
While the open-source Intel and Radeon OpenGL drivers within Mesa have long employed an on-disk shader cache to help with game load times by being able to load previously compiled shaders from disk, the Nouveau "NVC0" Gallium3D driver is on the heels of finally seeing similar support...
LLVM's Go Front-End Was Finally Dropped From The Official Source Tree
Most probably didn't even realize LLVM had a Go language front-end, but this past week it was dropped from the official source mono repository...
Windows 10 vs. Eight Linux Distributions On The Threadripper 3970X
Motivated by last week's Windows vs. Linux benchmarks with the 128-thread AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X here are Windows 10 Pro and Enterprise benchmarks on the 32-core / 64-thread AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X up against eight Linux distributions.
LavaLauncher 1.6 Released As A Simple Dock/Launcher For Wayland
If you have been looking for a simple dock/launcher that natively supports Wayland, LavaLauncher 1.6 is available as one such solution...
D-Bus Broker 22 Released With Option To Use Newer Kernel Features
With BUS1 not looking like it will come to fruition anytime soon as an in-kernel IPC mechanism and the kernel module for it not being touched since last March, the same developers continue pushing ahead with Dbus-Broker as the user-space implementation focused on D-Bus compatibility while being higher performing and more reliable than D-Bus itself...
Arm's ASTC Encoder Replaces Its Restrictive EULA With Apache 2.0 License
Arm has been developing the ASTC encoder as the texture compressor for Adaptive Scalable Texture Compression (ASTC) as open-source but until last week was carrying a restrictive license...
RADV Vulkan Driver Makes A Few More Improvements For GCN 1.0/1.1 Hardware
Valve open-source driver developer Samuel Pitoiset has contributed some improvements to Mesa 20.1's Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver benefiting GCN 1.0/1.1 graphics cards...
GCC 8.4 + GCC 9.3 Compilers Coming Soon
While GCC 10 will be releasing in the next month or two as the annual feature update to the GNU Compiler Collection, GCC 8.4 is expected for release soon along with GCC 9.3...