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AlmaLinux 10 Beta Released For Testing

Phoronix - Wed, 12/11/2024 - 21:36
It was just a little more than one month ago that AlmaLinux Kitten 10 became available for testing for this new OS release derived from the CentOS Stream 10 sources that is upstream to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10. Today the AlmaLinux crew announced the first beta release of AlmaLinux 10...

Miracle-WM 0.4 Released With i3 IPC Support

Phoronix - Wed, 12/11/2024 - 20:24
Miracle-WM is the Mir-based Wayland tiling window manager that is inspired in part by the likes of i3 and Sway. Miracle-WM also has a goal to be a flagship example of a Mir-based full featured window manager with this project being led by a Canonical engineer. Out today is Miracle-WM 0.4 to deliver the latest features...

How AMD Is Taking Standard C/C++ Code To Run Directly On GPUs

Phoronix - Wed, 12/11/2024 - 19:42
Back at the 2024 LLVM Developers' Meeting was an interesting presentation by AMD engineer Joseph Huber for how they have been exploring running common, standard C/C++ code directly on GPUs without having to be adapted for any GPU language / programming dialects or other adaptations...

QEMU 9.2 Released With VirtIO GPU Vulkan Support, AVX10 & Experimental Rust Support

Phoronix - Wed, 12/11/2024 - 19:23
QEMU 9.2 is out today for this processor emulator that plays an important role within the open-source Linux virtualization stack...

Haiku OS Developers Fixed Plenty Of Bugs In November

Phoronix - Wed, 12/11/2024 - 19:12
The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system project is out with a new monthly status update to detail their latest efforts...

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