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AMD Releases ROCm 5.7 GPU Compute Stack

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 September, 2023

ROCm 5.7 was released on Friday with the introduction of a new "hipTensor" library, the ROCgdb debugger being extended with Fortran and OMPD support, and new optimizations to the rocRAND and MIVisionX libraries. AMD has also announced end-of-support for the AMD Instinct MI50 accelerator while not yet formally announcing any new RDNA3 GPU support...

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KDE Plasma 6.0 Lands More Performance Optimizations, Better Wayland Gaming Experience

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 September, 2023

KDE developers continue adding new functionality and performance optimizations for the Plasma 6.0 desktop that is aiming for its release in early February...

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Ubuntu 23.10's Firefox Snap Enabling Wayland By Default

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 September, 2023

While the Ubuntu desktop has been using the GNOME Wayland session by default, Ubuntu's default Firefox browser build within its Snap confinements has continued relying upon XWayland. But the Firefox Snap beginning with Ubuntu 23.10 is now enabling the native Wayland support by default...

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SteamOS 3.5 Rolls Out In Preview On The Steam Deck With Many New Features

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 September, 2023

In time for the weekend gamers, SteamOS 3.5 has just rolled out into Valve's preview channel for the Steam Deck. Those switching over to the "Preview" mode from the System Update Channel setting can begin to enjoy this huge feature update for the Arch Linux based SteamOS...

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Wine 8.16 Restarts Work On Implementing Microsoft's Deprecated DirectMusic API

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 September, 2023

Wine 8.16 is out as the newest bi-weekly development release for this open-source software to enjoy Windows games and applications under Linux and other platforms...

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GCC Preparing To Introduce "-fhardened" Security Hardening Option

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 September, 2023

Following discussions among compiler developers and other stakeholders, the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) is preparing to add a "-fhardened" compiler option that will enable various hardening features aimed at increasing the security/robustness of the generated binaries...

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Servo Browser Engine Enables New Default UI, Improves Crash Error Page, Replaces OpenSSL

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 September, 2023

The Servo web rendering engine that is written in Rust and started originally by Mozilla while now being developed as a Linux Foundation Europe project has issued a status update around recent changes to this memory-safe and modular web browser engine...

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Ubuntu 23.04 & 22.04.3 Installs Haven't Been Following Their Own Security Best Practices

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 September, 2023

It turns out that Ubuntu Linux installations of Ubuntu 23.04, 23.04.3 LTS, and installs done since April 2023 that accepted the Snap version update haven't been following Ubuntu's own recommended security best practices for their security pocket configuration for packages. A new Subiquity release was issued today to fix this problem while those on affected Ubuntu installs are recommended to manually edit their /etc/apt/sources.list file...

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Intel Starts Work On Enabling "Xe2" Graphics Within Their Open-Source Mesa Drivers

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 September, 2023

Tucked away within a merge to Mesa entitled, "intel/genxml: Support importing, which cuts the overall xml file size almost in half" Intel Linux graphics driver engineers are slowly beginning to start work on the "Xe2" graphics support to be found with Lunar Lake processors...