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      LXD Maintainership Being Limited To Canonical Employees

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 July, 2023

    Earlier this month Canonical asserted control over the LXD project. As another step in tightening up control over this container management extension for Linux Containers (LXC) is now apparently limiting LXD maintainership rights to only Canonical employees...
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      Some Of The Features You Will Find Removed With KDE Plasma 6

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 July, 2023

    Following the recent KDE Akademy developer conference, prominent KDE developer Nate Graham has provided more insight into some of the features being removed with the in-development Plasma 6 desktop...
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      GNOME Developers Working To Rethink Their Window Management Approach

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 July, 2023

    GNOME 46 or later will likely be seeing work to overhaul the default window management behavior of the desktop...
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      GCC 13.2 Released With 58+ Bugs Fixed

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 July, 2023

    Released back in April was GCC 13.1 as the first stable release in the GCC 13 series that brought Modula-2 language support, more C++23/C23 features, Modula-2 language support, and other new CPU targets supported from Arm to Intel. Debuting today is GCC 13.2 as the first point release in the series to ship dozens of bug fixes...
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      The AVX-512 Performance Advantage With AMD EPYC Bergamo

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 July, 2023

    While this week was the surprise announcement of Intel AVX10 and with that taking the super-set of AVX-512 to both E and P core processors in the future, for next year's Xeon "Sierra Forest" server processors at up to 144 ocres, it appears they will lack AVX-512/AVX10. Intel's AVX10 announcement noted initial support with Granite Rapids processors that will debut next year but no mention of the E-core-only Sierra Forest. With the AVX10 only coming to P/E core client processors after Granite Rapids, it would appear the high density Sierra Forest generation will miss out on AVX10/AVX-512 and not appear until Clearwater Forest. Meanwhile with the 128-core AMD EPYC "Bergamo" processors now shipping, there is AVX-512 with the Zen 4C cores. Here are some benchmarks looking at the AVX-512 impact for Bergamo.
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      Mold 2.0 High Speed Linker Released: Moves From AGPL To MIT License

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 July, 2023

    Mold 2.0 is out today as a major update to this high performance linker developed by Rui Ueyama. Mold has consistently shown to outperform GNU's Gold and LLVM's LLD linkers while today is making another shift with it now turning to MIT licensing...
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      NVK Merge Request Opened For Landing Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver In Mesa

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 July, 2023

    NVK as the open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver being developed for Mesa has to this point been developed out-of-tree as it's been in its early stages, depends upon Nouveau DRM kernel driver improvements, and ultimately isn't too useful until the Nouveau GSP/re-clocking situation is sorted out upstream. But overnight the merge request was opened to introduce NVK to mainline Mesa...
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      New AMDGPU Firmware Published For Upcoming Radeon GPUs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 July, 2023

    There's been talk of new Radeon RX 7000 series graphics cards this quarter and adding some weight to that is AMD publishing several new firmware files for different intellectual property blocks of IP versions previously not seeing firmware binaries in the linux-firmware.git repository...
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      Unified LTO Bitcode Front-End Comes Together For LLVM

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 July, 2023

    Thanks to work carried out by Sony engineers and then offered for upstream, over the past few weeks support for a unified LTO bitcode front-end has materialized within the LLVM codebase...