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New RTC Drivers For Apple & NVIDIA With Linux 6.19

Phoronix - Sat, 12/13/2025 - 22:28
The Real Time Clock (RTC) driver changes were merged today for Linux 6.19 ahead of the merge window wrapping up on Sunday...

New Rule Forbids GNOME Shell Extensions Made Using AI Generated Code

Phoronix - Sat, 12/13/2025 - 19:41
The GNOME.org Extensions hosting for GNOME Shell extensions will no longer accept new contributions with AI-generated code. A new rule has been added to their review guidelines to forbid AI-generated code...

LoongArch32 Support Begins Taking Shape In Linux 6.19, GCC 16

Phoronix - Sat, 12/13/2025 - 19:20
The LoongArch CPU architecture changes have been merged for the Linux 6.19 merge window. This domestic Chinese CPU architecture inspired by MIPS and RISC-V began with 64-bit LoongArch64 but with Linux 6.19 the foundation is being laid for LoongArch32 as a 32-bit variant...

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

Phoronix - Sat, 12/13/2025 - 09:35
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 - Sat, 12/13/2025 - 09:20
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 - Sat, 12/13/2025 - 09:10
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 - Sat, 12/13/2025 - 07:05
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...

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