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Rust 1.94 Released With Stable Support For AVX-512 FP16 Intrinsics, Array Windows

Phoronix - Fri, 03/06/2026 - 03:09
Rust 1.94 was rolled out today as the newest routine stable update for the Rust programming language...

Linux MAINTAINERS Cleaning For Recently Departed Intel Devs, Altera Drivers Oprhaned

Phoronix - Fri, 03/06/2026 - 02:35
The layoffs and restructuring at Intel in 2025 caused unfortunate hits to their Linux/open-source engineering including various driver maintainers leaving and even their CPU temperature driver being orphaned for lack of maintainers. Sent out today were a number of additional updates to the MAINTAINERS file for the Linux kernel to reflect other Intel departures in recent months. Plus some of the Altera drivers have also been orphaned now for having no upstream maintainers...

Linux 7.0 File-System Benchmarks With XFS Leading The Way

Phoronix - Fri, 03/06/2026 - 01:20
With a number of file-system improvements in Linux 6.19 and more file-system optimizations in Linux 7.0, it's past due for running some fresh file-system benchmarks. Here is a look at how the prominent file-system contenders are performing on the latest Linux 7.0 development kernel.

NVIDIA R595 Linux Driver Beta Brings New Vulkan Support & DRI3 v1.2

Phoronix - Fri, 03/06/2026 - 00:13
Following the recent NVIDIA R595 driver release for Windows, NVIDIA today released the 595.45.04 driver for Linux users as a beta version in the R595 release stream...

Debian Still Debating AI Contributions Plus A Need For More Diverse Contributors

Phoronix - Fri, 03/06/2026 - 00:03
Debian Project Leader "DPL" Andreas Tille provided an update today on various happenings within the project and personal reflections on some recent topics. Among the topics in today's DPL updates were around AI contributions, Debian's need to become more diverse with its contributors, and needing more "thank yous" to show appreciation for contributions...

Redox OS Gets Vulkan & Node.js Working On This Rust-Based Open-Source OS

Phoronix - Thu, 03/05/2026 - 23:27
There were some fairly exciting improvements made by the Redox OS developers over the course of February. They have the Vulkan API working on Redox OS for the first time along with more COSMIC desktop software and even Node.js...

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