Greg Kroah-Hartman Makes A Compelling Case For New Linux Kernel Drivers To Be Written In Rust The debate over the Linux kernel's Rust programming language policy continues... While some kernel maintainers are against it, Linus Torvalds has reportedly said he would override maintainers that may be against honoring Rust code. Linux's second-in-command Greg Kroah-Hartman has also been a big proponent of Rust kernel code. He's crafted another …

Greg Kroah-Hartman Makes A Compelling Case For New Linux Kernel Drivers To Be Written In Rust - Phoronix

The debate over the Linux kernel's Rust programming language policy continues..

Manjaro Linux 25.0 Coming Along With Updated Desktops, Btrfs Filesystem By Default Manjaro Linux lead developer Philip Müller has provided a status update concerning the upcoming Manjaro 25.0 distribution release...

Manjaro Linux 25.0 Coming Along With Updated Desktops, Btrfs Filesystem By Default - Phoronix

Manjaro Linux lead developer Philip Müller has provided a status update concerning the upcoming Manjaro 25.0 distribution release.

Intel oneDNN 3.7 Begins Tuning For Xe3 Graphics, Adds More Granite Rapids Optimizations Intel software engineers on Tuesday released oneDNN 3.7 as the newest version of this oneAPI Deep Neural Network Library that is in turn used by software like ONNX, MATLAB, PaddlePaddle, Apache MXNet, and others as part of the building blocks for deep learning software...

Intel oneDNN 3.7 Begins Tuning For Xe3 Graphics, Adds More Granite Rapids Optimizations - Phoronix

Intel software engineers on Tuesday released oneDNN 3.7 as the newest version of this oneAPI Deep Neural Network Library that is in turn used by so...

Sovereign Tech Agency Investing €515k Into The Eclipse Foundation Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency (née Sovereign Tech Fund) announced they have begun investing into the Eclipse Foundation and the work they are doing on open-source integrated development environment (IDE) software...

Sovereign Tech Agency Investing €515k Into The Eclipse Foundation - Phoronix

Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency (née Sovereign Tech Fund) announced they have begun investing into the Eclipse Foundation and the work they a...

Latest AVX-512 Optimization For FFmpeg Shows Wild Improvement On AMD Ryzen Merged today for the widely-used FFmpeg open-source multimedia library was yet another AVX-512 optimized code path... Compared to the pure C code, the AVX2 code path was 10.98x faster while this new AVX-512 code path clocks in at 18x the performance of the common C code...

Latest AVX-512 Optimization For FFmpeg Shows Wild Improvement On AMD Ryzen - Phoronix

Merged today for the widely-used FFmpeg open-source multimedia library was yet another AVX-512 optimized code path..

Linus Torvalds Would Reportedly Merge Rust Kernel Code Over Maintainer Objections The drama surrounding Rust code within the Linux kernel continues... Christoph Hellwig is the maintainer of the DMA mapping helpers and several other areas of the kernel has been an outspoken critic of Rust code or secondary programming languages within the Linux kernel kernel. Hellwig has been critical of Rust code for the Linux kernel and its long-ter…

Linus Torvalds Would Reportedly Merge Rust Kernel Code Over Maintainer Objections - Phoronix

The drama surrounding Rust code within the Linux kernel continues..

SDL & MPV Media Player Land Support For Wayland Color Management / HDR Following the upstream Wayland Protocols repository landing the Wayland color management protocol for enabling HDR support and this morning's release of Wayland Protocols 1.41, the SDL library and MPV media player are the first two clients supporting this now-official protocol...

SDL & MPV Media Player Land Support For Wayland Color Management / HDR - Phoronix

Following the upstream Wayland Protocols repository landing the Wayland color management protocol for enabling HDR support and this morning's ...

Progress Continues On Unofficial Firefox GTK4 Port, Code Now Available On GitHub For all of those that were intrigued over the independent code porting the Firefox web browser to the GTK4 toolkit, there has been a bit more progress and all of the code is also now obtainable via GitHub for this unofficial port...

Progress Continues On Unofficial Firefox GTK4 Port, Code Now Available On GitHub - Phoronix

For all of those that were intrigued over the independent code porting the Firefox web browser to the GTK4 toolkit, there has been a bit more progr...

CodeWeavers Hiring More Developers To Work On Wine & Valve's Proton The friends at CodeWeavers have relayed work that they are looking to hire multiple Wine developers to join their paid team working on upstream Wine as well as their CrossOver products, Valve's Proton downstream for Steam Play, and related Wine-based tech...

CodeWeavers Hiring More Developers To Work On Wine & Valve's Proton - Phoronix

The friends at CodeWeavers have relayed work that they are looking to hire multiple Wine developers to join their paid team working on upstream Win...

Limine 9.0 Bootloader Drops EXT4 File-System Support Limine 9.0 is out today as the newest major release for this open-source modern multi-protocol bootloader and boot manager. Limine also boasts its own Limine Boot Protocol in addition to the native Linux support and chainloading/multiboot capabilities...

Limine 9.0 Bootloader Drops EXT4 File-System Support - Phoronix

Limine 9.0 is out today as the newest major release for this open-source modern multi-protocol bootloader and boot manager