📰 One Line x86 Change To GCC Compiler Nets +12% Benchmark Win For Modern Intel/AMD CPUs

A one line code change to the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) for its generic x86 tuning is benefiting modern Intel and AMD processors...

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-x86-Generic-Mispredict

📰 Intel Kills Off AMX-TF32 Support Before It Even Shipped In Diamond Rapids

Intel has dropped AMX-TF32 before its debut in Xeon Diamond Rapids. The latest Intel programming reference manual has dropped AMX-TF32 and Intel engineers are already moving ahead to strip out the AMX-TF32 support that existed in the GNU Compiler Collection...

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Kills-AMX-TF32

📰 Glibc Introduces /etc/tunables.conf For System-Wide Tunables

Red Hat has contributed new system-wide tunables infrastructure to the GNU C Library "glibc" that allows specifying system-wide tunables via the new /etc/tunables.conf configuration file...

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Glibc-System-Tunables

📰 Rust Coreutils cp Ended Up Breaking Ubuntu Image Builds With Latest Incompatibility

While the Rust Coreutils offers better memory safety than GNU Coreutils due to being written in the Rust programming language, subtle incompatibilities continue to be spotted in the Rust Coreutils implementations of the different commands. The latest coming to light this week was the Rust Coreutils cp command breaking Ubuntu image builds due to differences in argument handling...

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Coreutils-cp-Ubuntu-Images

📰 GNU Guix Package Manager Hit by Four Security Flaws

The Guix team urges users to upgrade after vulnerabilities were found in its substitute handling and channel update mechanisms.

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https://linuxiac.com/gnu-guix-package-manager-hit-by-four-security-flaws/

📰 Ubuntu Reverts Rust cp After It Breaks Live Image Builds

Ubuntu temporarily switched cp back to GNU Coreutils after a Rust Coreutils compatibility issue caused livecd-rootfs builds to fail.

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https://linuxiac.com/ubuntu-reverts-rust-cp-after-it-breaks-live-image-builds/

📰 FreeBSD 16 Retires The Last Of Its GPL Code From Its Base System

As of this past week in the FreeBSD source tree for FreeBSD 16, the last of the GNU GPL licensed code from the base system has been retired...

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-16-Goes-GPL-Free

📰 GNU C Library 2.44 Released With /etc/tunables.conf, More Optimizations

GNU developers today released GNU C Library "glibc" 2.44 as the newest feature release for this critical library to modern Linux systems and other platforms...

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-C-Library-glibc-2.44

📰 GNU Binutils 2.47 Released With More RISC-V Extensions, New Options

Along with this weekend's release of GNU C Library 2.44, the GNU Binutils 2.47 release is also now available for this important set of binary utilities common to Linux systems and other platforms with the GNU toolchain...

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Binutils-2.47

📰 GNU Nano 9.2 CLI Text Editor Released with New Terminal Output Check

GNU Nano 9.2 is now available with a new terminal output check, clearer multibuffer aliases, and restored support for legacy keystrokes.

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#gnu

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https://linuxiac.com/gnu-nano-9-2-cli-text-editor-released-with-new-terminal-output-check/