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New Linux Patch Confirms: Rust Experiment Is Done, Rust Is Here To Stay

Phoronix - 2 hours 55 min ago
Rust for Linux lead developer Miguel Ojeda posted the patch a short time ago to "conclude the Rust experiment". The "experiment" of Rust programming language code in the Linux kernel is over as it's now accepted to be a success and "Rust is here to stay" in the kernel...

KDE Plasma 6.6 Will Finally Support Proper Screen Mirroring On Wayland

Phoronix - 3 hours 10 min ago
It's an exciting week in KDE Plasma development land ahead of the holidays. Plasma 6.6 continues tacking on more feature work for Wayland...

Haiku OS Sees Port Of Go 1.18 Programming Language

Phoronix - 3 hours 20 min ago
The BeOS-inspired Haiku operating system has received a recent port of the Go programming language to the platform. Plus Haiku also saw app improvements and more over the month of November...

Wine 11.0-rc2 Released With 28 Known Bug Fixes

Phoronix - 5 hours 25 min ago
Following last week's Wine 11.0-rc1 release that marked the feature freeze as well in working toward Wine 11.0 in January, out today is Wine 11.0-rc2...

Linux 6.19 Lands x2AVIC Patches For AMD SVM Handling Up To 4096 vCPUs

Phoronix - 9 hours 7 min ago
The Kernel-based Virtual Machine "KVM" updates for Linux 6.19 include preparations by AMD for handling up to a possible 4,096 virtual CPUs for VMs...

New Patches Lay Out Linux Kernel Adjustments For RISC-V RVA23 Hardware

Phoronix - 9 hours 32 min ago
With the first of RISC-V RVA23-compatible hardware expected to be released in 2026, we are beginning to see more Linux developers prepare for this RVA23 profile and the now-mandated extensions. Sent out this week was an initial "request for comments" patch series on RVA23 adjustments for the Linux kernel...

Linux 6.19 Improves User-Space I/O "UIO" With Shared Virtual Addressing

Phoronix - 11 hours 10 min ago
Merged a few days ago for the ongoing Linux 6.19 merge window were all of the "char/misc" updates. A lot of random changes throughout this time from the Industrial I/O "IIO" drivers to an interesting new feature for User-Space I/O "UIO" for PCI/PCIe devices...

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