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Experimental, Reverse-Engineered & AI Assisted Rust Driver Targets Modern Display Link Hardware
2+ hour, 15+ min ago (190+ words) Phoronix - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage Operating Systems Peripherals Experimental, Reverse-Engineered & AI Assisted Rust Driver Targets Modern Display Link Hardware Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix. com and founded the…...
Epic Games Announces Lore Open-Source Version Control System
3+ hour, 52+ min ago (226+ words) Epic Games announced today they have created a new version control system that is now open-source as Lore. Given the proliferation and excellence of Git, you may be wondering why Epic Games is pursuing another VCS option. .. They are specifically…...
Myna Announced As Speech-To-Text Solution For The Ubuntu Desktop
5+ hour, 4+ min ago (188+ words) Phoronix - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage Operating Systems Peripherals Myna Announced As Speech-To-Text Solution For The Ubuntu Desktop Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix. com and founded the site in…...
Linux Finally Ends Apple Talk Protocol Support
8+ hour, 57+ min ago (217+ words) While the Apple Talk networking protocols were innovative when they first appeared for their plug-and-play capabilities, Apple itself ended their Apple Talk support back in 2009. Now 17 years later, the Linux kernel is ending Apple Talk support due to a recent…...
Qt Creator 20 IDE Released With AI Agent Support
8+ hour, 6+ min ago (203+ words) The Qt Creator integrated development environment focused on Qt/C++ programming is out today with Qt Creator 20 and this new version is headlined by adding AI agent support. .. - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software…...
GCC 17 Lands Initial Infrastructure For C++29
8+ hour, 15+ min ago (180+ words) Phoronix - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage Operating Systems Peripherals GCC 17 Lands Initial Infrastructure For C++29 Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix. com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus…...
Mozilla Firefox Usage Of zlib-rs For Better Safety & Performance
17+ hour, 52+ min ago (226+ words) Since the release in May of Firefox 151, Mozilla has been relying on the zlib-rs library for Gzip compression/decompression. This subtle change to use this Rust-based Zlib implementation has yielded some performance benefits and better memory safety but also some…...
Linux Enacts Guidance To Tighten Acceptance Of New File-Systems Into The Kernel
21+ hour, 22+ min ago (192+ words) Phoronix - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage Operating Systems Peripherals Linux Enacts Guidance To Tighten Acceptance Of New File-Systems Into The Kernel Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix. com and founded…...
Linux 7. 2 Improves Anonymous/Unnamed Pipe Performance For Shell Pipelines & More
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (217+ words) Yet another performance optimization merged for the in-development Linux 7. 2 kernel is improving the speed of anon_pipe_write, the kernel function used for writing data into anonymous/unnamed pipes such as when using shell pipelines or standard streams from applications. .. - Categories Computers Display…...
Linux 7. 2 Adds Ability To Limit Programs To Only Open Regular Files, Avoid Being Tricked Or Doing Silly Things
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (237+ words) Merged as part of the many VFS changes for Linux 7. 2 is the new OPENAT2_REGULAR flag for the openat2 system call. This can be used to limit programs to only open regular file-systems and avoid accidentally or intentionally opening up device files or…...