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Greg Kroah-Hartman Makes A Compelling Case For New Linux Kernel Drivers To Be Written In Rust  Phoronix

Greg Kroah-Hartman Makes A Compelling Case For New Linux Kernel Drivers To Be Written In Rust  Phoronix

The debate over the Linux kernel's Rust programming language policy continues... While some kernel maintainers are against it, Linus Torvalds has reportedly said he would override maintainers that may be against honoring Rust code. Linux's second-in-command Greg Kroah-Hartman has also been a big proponent of Rust kernel code. He's crafted another Linux kernel mailing list post today outlining the benefits of Rust and encouraging new kernel code/drivers to be in Rust rather than C...

Whatever Happened to Ubuntu TV? Where Linux Smart TVs Are Now  How-To Geek

One of the most logical paths forward for the Servo web browser engine is making it compelling for embedding within applications as an alternative to the Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF), WebKitGTK, and other browser engines. Servo developers recently realized though it's around 200 lines of Rust code to embed Servo compared to around 50 lines of C code if targeting WebKitGTK... So improvements are being made to the Servo embedding API...

Manjaro Linux 25.0 Coming Along With Updated Desktops, Btrfs Filesystem By Default  Phoronix

Manjaro Linux lead developer Philip Müller has provided a status update concerning the upcoming Manjaro 25.0 distribution release...

Manjaro Linux 25.0 Coming Along With Updated Desktops, Btrfs Filesystem By Default  Phoronix

Yesterday a number of Windows reviews began appearing for the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 "Strix Halo" with the debut of the ASUS ROG Flow Z13 as the first laptop to ship this SoC with 16 cores / 32 threads, 64 MB L3 cache, and 40 graphics cores with the Radeon 8060S Graphics. As expected, AMD Strix Halo is a beast with its very capable CPU performance and very compelling integrated graphics, at least under Windows 11...

AMD Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" On Linux?  Phoronix

Intel software engineers on Tuesday released oneDNN 3.7 as the newest version of this oneAPI Deep Neural Network Library that is in turn used by software like ONNX, MATLAB, PaddlePaddle, Apache MXNet, and others as part of the building blocks for deep learning software...

Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency (née Sovereign Tech Fund) announced they have begun investing into the Eclipse Foundation and the work they are doing on open-source integrated development environment (IDE) software...

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Genymotion is a powerful Android emulator used by developers and testers to simulate Android devices on their computers. It allows

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Linus Torvalds would override maintainer veto on Rust kernel code  heise online

CERT-In flags security risk in Google Chrome on Windows, Macs, Linux  The Financial Express

Kunai: Open-source threat hunting tool for Linux  Help Net Security

Power Profiles Daemon 0.30 Preps Support for Linux 6.14  OMG! Ubuntu!

Get Windows on Linux in 10 Minutes With These 2 Commands  MSN

Merged today for the widely-used FFmpeg open-source multimedia library was yet another AVX-512 optimized code path... Compared to the pure C code, the AVX2 code path was 10.98x faster while this new AVX-512 code path clocks in at 18x the performance of the common C code...

Last week NeatLab released Neat Video 6 as the newest version of their video engine to reduce noise and enhance video quality that can be used with the likes of DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut, and Premiere Pro software. Neat Video 6 features a faster render engine, optimized CPU + GPU performance, enhanced memory management, and other improvements. Neat Video 6 continues to support Linux natively when it comes to DaVinci Resolve usage as well as various OFX hosts like Natron / Flame / Mistika / Fusion Studio / Nuke. As they also updated their NeatBench benchmark, I was curious to see how the performance of Neat Video 6 is for the new NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 Blackwell GPUs.