LibreOffice 7.0 Released As The Open-Source, Vulkan-Accelerated Office Suite
LibreOffice 7.0 has been released! Making LibreOffice 7.0 so exciting is that the Cairo code was replaced with Google's Skia library and in the process gaining optional support for GPU accelerating the user-interface with Vulkan...
Google Engineers Propose "Machine Function Splitter" For Faster Performance
Google engineers have been working on the Machine Function Splitter as their means of making binaries up to a few percent faster thanks to this compiler-based approach. They are now seeking to upstream the Machine Function Splitter into LLVM...
OpenSSF Launches To Improve Open-Source Software Security
The Linux Foundation in cooperation with many hardware and software vendors have announced the Open-Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) for improving open-source security...
Vulkan 1.2.149 Released With Another Extension For Helping The Likes Of DXVK
Vulkan 1.2.149 is out today and its lone new extension is yet another addition to the Vulkan API for helping translation layers like DXVK map other graphics APIs on top...
Intel ISPC Compiler Lands GPU Code Generation Support
Intel's open-source ISPC (the Intel SPMD Program Compiler) now has preliminary support for code generation targeting their GPUs...
AMD's ROCm AOMP Compiler 11.7-1 Brings OMPD Support, ROCgdb
The AMD ROCm developer tool engineers have released a new build of AOMP, their LLVM Clang compiler downstream that adds OpenMP support for Radeon GPU offloading until that support ultimately makes it back upstream into LLVM/Clang...
Nano 5.0 Released As A Big Feature Update To This Easy-To-Use Terminal Text Editor
The popular GNU Nano terminal text editor has reached version 5.0...
LLVM 11.0-RC1 Now Available For Testing
While LLVM 11.0 was branched almost two weeks ago with many new/improved features for this open-source compiler stack, it has taken until today to get into shape for issuing the first release candidate...
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 Hits Beta With New/Updated Application Streams
Red Hat has announced the public beta of the forthcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 release...
OpenMandriva Lx 4.2 Reaches Alpha
Along with OpenMandriva working on a rolling-release version of its distribution long ago derived from Mandrake/Mandriva, OpenMandriva Lx 4.2 is coming along as the next stable release...