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Linux Lands Safeguard For RISC-V Against Another Microarchitectural Attack Vector

Phoronix - Sun, 01/11/2026 - 19:34
Increasingly complex RISC-V cores aren't magically immune to the speculative execution / side-channel vulnerabilities that have rattled the x86_64 and ARM64 landscape for years. Following recent work on Spectre V1 handling for RISC-V in the Linux kernel, merged this weekend for Linux 6.19-rc5 is another RISC-V attack vector safeguard...

GYESME: A New Design-Led Downstream Of GNOME Being Explored

Phoronix - Sun, 01/11/2026 - 19:18
A new project trying to get off the ground and currently in an "exploratory phase" is GYESME that describes itself as a "design-led" downstream of GNOME with plans ot only fork when needed that is "minimal by default."..

Linus Torvalds' Latest Open-Source Project Is AudioNoise - Made With The Help Of Vibe Coding

Phoronix - Sun, 01/11/2026 - 19:00
In addition to Linus Torvalds' recent comments around AI tooling documentation, it turns out in fact that Linus Torvalds has been using vibe coding himself. Over the holidays Linus Torvalds has been working on a new open-source project called AudioNoise that was started with the help of AI vibe coding...

Budgie 10.10 Released: Officially Migrated From X11 To Wayland

Phoronix - Sun, 01/11/2026 - 04:04
The Budgie 10.10 desktop has been officially released in marking the open-source project's transition from X11 to Wayland...

Mageia 10 Alpha Released - 32-bit ISOs Still Available

Phoronix - Sat, 01/10/2026 - 23:30
The first alpha release of Mageia 10 is now available for this Linux distribution who's lineage traces back to Mandriva and before that the legendary Mandrake Linux...

Debian 13.3 Released With Many Security & Bug Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 01/10/2026 - 22:46
Debian 13.3 is out today as the newest stable point release for Debian Trixie...

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