While the performance of LLVM/Clang is on-par with GCC these days on both x86_64 and AArch64 and the C/C++ support is very robust compared to many years ago, most Linux distributions continue using the GCC compiler and GNU toolchain by default. OpenMandriva is a well known Linux distribution that for several years has been a Clang-built Linux distribution while for three years now the Chimera Linux distribution has also been relying exclusively on an LLVM toolchain.

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The newest frontier by the Linux Foundation is getting involved with coming up with a formal file format specification for Lottie, the vector graphics animation format based on JSON.

Lottie has seen a lot of interest in recent years as a JSON-based vector graphics animation format with support ranging from Microsoft Windows to Adobe integration via plug-ins and more. The Linux Foundation today announced the Lottie Animation Community (LAC) as a new format specification body. Those forming this community are the likes of Google, LottieFiles, Airbnb, Hernan

Following the recent branching of LLVM 18 , LLVM 18.1-rc1 was released today as the first test candidate for this half-year update of this widely-used open-source compiler stack.

LLVM 18 stable is planning for release in early March and thus the release dance is now underway. This is also going to be the first release under LLVM's new versioning scheme similar to GCC and that is why it will be LLVM 18.1 rather than LLVM 18.0

The uutils project providing a Rust-written Coreutils re-implementation has released v0.0.24 and it passes another 29 GNU test cases as the project nears its 1.0 release.

The uutils focus continues to be a drop-in replacement to GNU Coreutils and their v1.0 release nears as they get closer to passing all of the GNU test cases. With GNU Uutils 0.0.24 they are passing 422 tests but still failing 132 tests and skipping

Intel engineers on Wednesday released OpenVINO 2023.3 as the latest major update to this leading open-source AI toolkit. The OpenVINO 2023.3 brings "full support" for new Emerald Rapids and Meteor Lake processors, other Intel hardware support improvements, and continuing to expand support around generative AI (GenAI) and large language models (LLMs).

OpenVINO 2023.3 rolls out the OpenVINO Gen AI repository for demonstrating native C/C++ pipeline samples for large language

Teflon has been merged into Mesa 24.1 as a Gallium3D front-end that TensorFlow can load for delegating the execution of operations in a neural network model. Teflon was created initially for the Etnaviv Gallium3D driver for being able to run AI inferencing on Vivante NPUs.

Tomeu Vizoso of Collabora has been spending much time in recent months working on enabling Vivante NPU support within the Mesa Etnaviv driver. Kernel-side back in Linux 6.3 Vivante NPU cores were added to the Etnaviv DRM driver while