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Google News - Wed, 04/01/2026 - 12:44
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Gaim 3 Is In Development For Restoring The Original Gaim Instant Messaging App In GTK4

Phoronix - Wed, 04/01/2026 - 08:33
Gaim! Any desktop Linux users from 20+ years ago likely remember the Gaim instant messaging app that was commonly shipped by desktop Linux distributions for interfacing with different instant messaging platforms like AIM, MSN, ICQ, etc. About twenty years ago Gaim was renamed to Pidgin though due to the AOL Instant Messenger trademark. But with the AIM trademark since expired and wanting to take a differing approach from the latest Pidgin, Gaim 3 is under development...

AerynOS 2026.03 Brings GNOME 50, Other Wayland Compositor Updates

Phoronix - Wed, 04/01/2026 - 08:17
AerynOS 2026.03 is now available as the newest release of this from-scratch Linux distribution originally known as Serpent OS. With this month's update comes GNOME 50, KDE Plasma 6.6.3, and various Wayland compositor updates alongside other software improvements...

Why customers are choosing Red Hat AI for real business outcomes

Red Hat News - Wed, 04/01/2026 - 08:00
Most leaders I speak with are well past the hype cycle of AI. The question is no longer whether AI matters. The question is how to move from experimentation to production in a way that is security-focused, supportable, and repeatable across teams.From where I sit—leading strategy and operations for AI Platform Core Components (AIPCC), an engineering function within Red Hat’s AI Engineering organization—that shift changes everything. The conversation moves from a tooling decision to an operating model decision. A strong AI platform is the foundation that helps teams ship AI-enabled capabi

Red Hat AI tops MLPerf Inference v6.0 with vLLM on Qwen3-VL, Whisper, and GPT-OSS-120B

Red Hat News - Wed, 04/01/2026 - 08:00
Red Hat is proud to announce our strong results from the latest industry-standard MLPerf Inference v6.0 benchmark. Our submission includes four AI workloads (Whisper-Large-v3, GPT-OSS-120B, Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B, and Llama-2-70b) on NVIDIA (H200, B200, L40S) and AMD (MI350X) GPUs, running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Red Hat OpenShift AI with our open source inference stack: vLLM, and llm-d. We achieved top scores across several configurations, including the highest offline throughput on B200 for GPT-OSS-120B, the leading H200 result on Whisper, and the top B200 submission on Qwen3-VL,

MidnightBSD 4.0.4 Released With Aged & Agectl For Age Verification/Attestation

Phoronix - Wed, 04/01/2026 - 06:50
MidnightBSD 4.0.4 is out today as the newest update to this desktop-minded BSD operating system. Notable with this update is introducing the Aged daemon and Agectl program for handling age verification and age attestation given the increasing number of US states pursuing laws around age verification at the OS user level...

xx-fractional-scale-v2 Aims To Improve Wayland Fractional Scaling

Phoronix - Wed, 04/01/2026 - 05:54
A merge request for Wayland Protocols was opened today for introducing "xx-fractional-scale-v2" as an experimental protocol to address current shortcomings with current Wayland fractional scaling. There is also a KDE KWin compositor merge request already out for review that implements this xx-fractional-scale-v2 protocol...

New Rust-Based BUS1 In-Kernel IPC In Development For The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Wed, 04/01/2026 - 03:47
After KDBUS failed to make it into the mainline Linux kernel more than one decade ago as an in-kernel version of D-Bus, BUS1 was proposed as a clean sheet design for in-kernel, capability-based inter-process communication (IPC). BUS1 didn't gain enough traction to make it to the mainline kernel and then many of the same developers devised Dbus-Broker as a more performant D-Bus user-space implementation. Well, as a big surprise now, a new version of BUS1 is being worked on for the Linux kernel...

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