Coming out this week was an updated AVX10 whitepaper from Intel with the surprising decision that 512-bit floating point and integer support is no longer considered optional for AVX10.2. AVX10.2 now mandates 128 / 256 / 512-bit support and in turn also dropped the 256-bit embedded rounding support with the focus on 512-bit. The LLVM/Clang compiler had seen its AVX10 support designed around Intel's original AVX10 design assumptions and thus now is being modified to address these changes...

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Hyprland 0.48 tiling Wayland compositor is out with major improvements including ANR dialogs, full color management, sync fixes, and more.

Rescuezilla 2.6 was released today as the latest stable version of this Ubuntu-based “Swiss Army Knife of System Recovery” distribution that leverages the popular Clonezilla open-source disk imaging/cloning software.

This past week a lot of new code for the Rust "gccrs" front-end began being merged for the upcoming GCC 15.1 stable release... The Polonius borrow checker landed along with other big improvements to the Rust code ahead of this annual GNU Compiler Collection release. A third round was merged on Friday adding yet more gccrs features...

Google engineers propose LUO, a state-machine-driven system to manage live Linux kernel updates with minimal disruption.

The EndeavourOS team announced today the release and general availability of EndeavourOS Mercury Neo as a maintenance update to the EndeavourOS Mercury release addressing various issues and updating core components.

PhotoPrism's latest release adds PDF support, improved UI, and new translations and sets the stage for upcoming batch editing and multi-user features.

Today, Ryan Finnie announced the release and general availability of Finnix 250 (codename Eau Claire) as the latest stable version for this Debian-based live Linux distro targeting casual system administrators.

EU OS is a new—still in the idea stage—Fedora-based Linux project designed to provide the EU public sector with secure, sovereign, and eco-friendly computing.

Ingo Molnar began sending out the pull requests today for the upcoming Linux 6.15 merge window of code areas he oversees for the Linux kernel. Among those early pulls are of the x86/build updates, which includes removing some seemingly useless CRC-32 checksum code from the kernel...

Start building debian's vmlinuz-6.13.7 and kernel's initrd.img-6.13.7 with configuration...

There is some new Wayland protocol support activity this week worth mentioning for both the KDE Plasma and GNOME desktops...

As of today, March 20th, the Serpent OS distribution created by ex-Solus founder and Budgie desktop creator Ikey Doherty changed its name to AerynOS. Here’s what you need to know about this major change!

The LILYGO T-Display K230 is a compact development board targeting IoT and embedded system applications. It features the Kendryte K230 system-on-chip, which includes a dual-core 64-bit RISC-V processor and dedicated units for AI acceleration, graphics rendering, and multimedia processing. The K230 SoC includes two CPU cores: CPU1 operates at 1.6 GHz, while CPU0 runs at […]

Wine 10.4 is out now with better PDB support, Vulkan video decoding updates, bug fixes, and more.

Linux is a powerful operating system favored by developers, system administrators, and power users due to its flexibility and efficiency. However, frequently using long and complex commands can be tedious and error-prone. This is where aliases come into play.

Meanwhile, open source video codec Ogg Theora stirs in its crypt. After a seven-year nap, version 3.0 of FOSS image editor GIMP is arriving with a splash, while a long-dormant open video format wakes from its slumbers and lumbers into beta.…

It's been over three years since the last ReactOS open-source operating system release for this platform working on API/ABI compatibility with Microsoft Windows. Today ReactOS 0.4.15 was finally published...

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