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TrueNAS 26 Looks Toward OpenZFS 2.4, Linux 6.18 LTS & LXC Container Support

Phoronix - Thu, 02/05/2026 - 21:20
Following the release of TrueNAS 25.10 for this Linux-based, OpenZFS-running operating system focused on network appliances / storage devices, iX systems has shared some of their plans for TrueNAS 26 this year...

Ubuntu To Support The SpacemiT K3 As One Of The First RISC-V RVA23 SoCs

Phoronix - Thu, 02/05/2026 - 21:07
Canonical and SpacemiT announced today that Ubuntu Linux will be officially supported on SpacemiT's new K3 RISC-V SoC. What makes the K3 interesting is being one of the first available RISC-V RVA23 designs...

Krita 6.0 Beta Released - Using Qt6 & Wayland Color Management Support

Phoronix - Thu, 02/05/2026 - 19:00
The first beta release of Krita 6.0 is now available for this featureful digital painting program. Krita 6.0 is re-based against the Qt6 toolkit while Krita 5.3 Beta is also being released at the same time for those sticking to Qt5...

NetBSD's Kernel Supports Lua Scripting But Don't Look For Rust In There Anytime Soon

Phoronix - Thu, 02/05/2026 - 18:49
For those not fond of the increasing use of the Rust programming language within the Linux kernel or FreeBSD's considerations for Rust in its kernel, you can perhaps find refuge within NetBSD. One of the NetBSD developers has explained why you likely won't be finding Rust code within the NetBSD kernel anytime soon...

Intel ISPC 1.30 Released With AMX Support Added To The Standard Library

Phoronix - Thu, 02/05/2026 - 18:00
Intel ISPC 1.30 is now available as the latest feature update to their Implicit SPMD Program Compiler as a variant of the C programming language to easily target their array of CPUs and GPUs...

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