Category Archives: Linux

[$] Recent improvements in GCC diagnostics

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The primary job of a compiler is to translate source code into a binary
form that can be run by a computer. Increasingly, though, developers want
more from their tools, compilers included. Since the compiler must
understand the code it is being asked to translate, it is in a good
position to provide information about how that code will execute — and
where things might go wrong. At the 2023 GNU Tools Cauldron,
David Malcolm talked about recent work to improve the diagnostic output
from the GCC compiler.

Source: LWN.net – [$] Recent improvements in GCC diagnostics

Intel Arc Graphics See Faster Performance On Ubuntu 23.10

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For those using the stock kernel and Mesa drivers when running Ubuntu Linux, the upgrade from Ubuntu 23.04 to the newly-released Ubuntu 23.10 can mean some nice graphics performance improvements for Intel Arc Graphics users. Here is a look at some Arc Graphics A770 benchmarks on Ubuntu 23.04 to 23.10 plus the gains that are coming up when moving to Linux 6.6 and Mesa 23.3-devel.

Source: Phoronix – Intel Arc Graphics See Faster Performance On Ubuntu 23.10

OpenWrt 23.05.0 released

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Version
23.05.0 of the OpenWrt distribution has been released: “OpenWrt
23.05 supports over 1790 devices. Support for over 200 new devices was
added in addition to the device support by OpenWrt 22.03“. Along with
new device support, this release features a switch to the mbedtls
cryptographic library, the ability to include utilities written in Rust, an
updated toolchain, and more.

Source: LWN.net – OpenWrt 23.05.0 released

AMD Advanced Media Acceleration "AMA" 1.0 SDK Released

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AMD has published the Advanced Media Acceleration (AMA) v1.0 SDK as a software stack aimed for hardware video acceleration and capable of high density real-time transcoding. The AMD AMA SDK integrates with the likes of the open-source FFmpeg and GStreamer projects for fitting nicely in the Linux software ecosystem as well as sporting its own C-based API…

Source: Phoronix – AMD Advanced Media Acceleration “AMA” 1.0 SDK Released

PipeWire 1.0 RC2 Released With Fixes, Improved Rate Switching

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Following last week’s PipeWire 1.0 release candidate, today a second release candidate was published as part of the project’s plan for reaching v1.0 before the end of the year for this widely-used Linux audio/video streams server that is a viable replacement to the likes of PulseAudio and JACK…

Source: Phoronix – PipeWire 1.0 RC2 Released With Fixes, Improved Rate Switching

Mozilla Might Finally Enable Firefox's Wayland Backend Soon

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While some Linux distributions like Fedora and Arch are enabling the native Wayland back-end for Firefox by default, upstream Firefox continues to not enable this Wayland support as part of their default builds. But — at long last — that might finally change soon…

Source: Phoronix – Mozilla Might Finally Enable Firefox’s Wayland Backend Soon

Built for Privacy: Partnering to Deploy Oblivious HTTP and Prio in Firefox

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Protecting user privacy is a core element of Mozilla’s vision for the web and the internet at large. In pursuit of this vision, we’re pleased to announce new partnerships with Fastly and Divvi Up to deploy privacy-preserving technology in Firefox. Mozilla builds a number of tools that help people defend their privacy online, but the […]

Source: LXer – Built for Privacy: Partnering to Deploy Oblivious HTTP and Prio in Firefox