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GNU gettext Reaches Version 1.0 After 30+ Years In Development - Adds LLM Features

Phoronix - Thu, 01/29/2026 - 09:31
Sun Microsystems began developing gettext in the early 1990s and the GNU Project began GNU gettext development in 1995 for this widely-used internationalization and localization system commonly for multi-lingual integration. While GNU gettext is commonly used by countless open-source projects and adapted for many different programming languages, only an hour ago was GNU gettext 1.0 finally released...

Wasmer 7.0 Released For Advancing WebAssembly On The Desktop & Anywhere

Phoronix - Thu, 01/29/2026 - 05:13
Wasmer 7.0 is out today for this WebAssembly "WASM" run-time for enabling lightweight containers that can run "anywhere" from the desktop to cloud and the edge. The security-minded and extensible WASM runtime provided by Wasmer has already proven to be quite robust while with Wasmer 7.0 has become even more featureful...

GNOME 50 Finally Lands Improved Discrete GPU Detection

Phoronix - Thu, 01/29/2026 - 04:45
The upcoming release of GNOME 50 to be found in the likes of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Fedora Workstation 44 will feature improved discrete GPU detection within the GNOME Shell. This effort has been two years coming and finally merged this week...

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