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Haiku OS Pulls In Updated Drivers From FreeBSD 15

Phoronix - Tue, 01/13/2026 - 18:41
The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system project just published a new status report to detail how they ended out the year...

GCC 16 Compiler Steps Closer To Release With Algol 68 Frontend, AMD Zen 6, C++20 Default

Phoronix - Tue, 01/13/2026 - 09:06
GCC 16 as this year's major feature release of the GNU Compiler Collection should be out in the typical March~April timeframe if all goes well. Today the GCC 16 compiler transitioned to its final stage "stage 4" of development with a focus exclusively on documentation and regression fixing...

Red Hat names Kevin Kennedy as global leader for the Red Hat partner ecosystem

Red Hat News - Tue, 01/13/2026 - 08:00
The technology landscape is shifting rapidly, and at the heart of this change is a vibrant, interconnected ecosystem of partners. Today, we are excited to introduce Kevin Kennedy as vice president of the Global Partner Ecosystem at Red Hat.Kennedy steps into this role during a pivotal era for hybrid cloud and AI, bringing a unique perspective forged from sitting at every side of the technology table – from direct sales at IBM and Xerox to a decade in leadership within distribution at Arrow, EMC and Tech Data, and most recently, leading Red Hat’s partner ecosystem in North America and Latin

Distributions - Hackaday

Google News - Tue, 01/13/2026 - 05:03
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Wine 11.0 Planned For Release Tomorrow With NTSync Support, Better WoW64

Phoronix - Tue, 01/13/2026 - 04:57
Wine project leader Alexandre Julliard relayed on the mailing list today that the plan is to release Wine 11.0 stable tomorrow, 13 January...

The Surprising Spectre BHI Mitigation Performance Impact On Meteor Lake

Phoronix - Tue, 01/13/2026 - 02:38
When recently carrying out performance benchmarks of Intel Meteor Lake performance on Linux since launch day two years ago, the geo mean came in at 93% the original performance. Finding the performance trending clearly lower with an up-to-date Linux software stack compared to in December 2023 was quite surprising considering the rather nice gains we have seen over time on other Intel/AMD hardware. As noted in that article though, one of the possible explanations there is the Spectre BHI "Branch History Injection" vulnerability and microcode plus Linux kernel mitigations having come out post-launch and affecting Meteor Lake CPUs. Sure enough, follow-up tests looking at the Spectre BHI impact have revealed a measurable cost in a number of workloads for the Core Ultra processor.

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