It's 2020 And GCC Has Finally Converted From SVN To Git
I reported a few days ago GCC was hoping to transition to Git this weekend from their large SVN repository. Going into this weekend I wasn't going to be the least bit surprised if this transition got delayed again given all of the months of delays already, but actually, they went ahead and migrated to Git!..
KDE Devs Fix Several Wayland Bugs, Annoying KWin Issues Plus Easier To Toggle Night Color
KDE developers fixed a number of Wayland and KWin bugs this week along with a number of other annoying bugs as well as making several other noteworthy refinements to the growing KDE ecosystem...
Wine-Staging 5.0-RC5 Brings Fix For Far Cry 5 Plus Sound Bug With Proton/ESYNC
Wine-Staging 5.0-RC5 is out today as usual, arriving just one day after the upstream Wine 5.0-rc5 release...
FC Is Yet Another LLVM Fortran Compiler, Now Targeting The New MLIR IR
While the Flang/f18 compiler is expected to land in the LLVM 10.0 source tree on Monday, another Fortran LLVM front-end continues in development...
Debian Enabling Support For Booting From Root F2FS File-Systems
For those wanting to run Debian from the Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) as the root file-system, that support is emerging...
Linaro Revives "Thermal Pressure" Code For Better Performance When CPUs Running Hot
Back in October 2018 was a patch series out of Linaro for "thermal pressure" support in the Linux kernel for providing better task placement when CPUs are running hot/overheating to the extent their CPU frequencies are being downclocked/limited. Out this weekend is a revised version of that Linux thermal pressure support...
AMD Finally Publishes Sensor Fusion Hub Driver For Linux
One of the missing features for those with AMD Ryzen laptops has been the lack of a Sensor Fusion Hub driver that is needed for supporting the accelerometer and gyroscopic sensors for the display and related laptop sensor functionality. This week AMD finally posted patches for a Sensor Fusion Hub Linux driver...
GNU's GDB Adds Multi-Target Debugging Support
A big change merged to the GNU Debugger (GDB) code-base on Friday is support for multi-target debugging support...
Python Can Run Up To ~27% Faster On Fedora 32 With Optimization
Python scripts may be running noticeably faster come the release of Fedora 32 in April...
The Pine64 PineTab Could Soon Be Running Nicely Off The Mainline Kernel
One of the many devices being pursued by the PINE64 crew is the PineTab open-source ARM 64-bit tablet. Thanks to being another Allwinner A64 product and not using any too bleeding edge tech, the PineTab has patches available to get it running off a mainline Linux kernel...