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RADV Lands Support For Vulkan's New Primitive Restart Index Extension

Phoronix - Thu, 04/09/2026 - 17:53
The newest Vulkan API extension now wired up for Mesa's Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" is VK_EXT_primitive_restart_index that was introduced last week...

Mir-Based Miracle-WM 0.9 Introduces A WebAssembly Plugin System

Phoronix - Thu, 04/09/2026 - 17:37
Miracle-WM as the Wayland compositor / window manager built atop Canonical's Mir project is out with a big new feature release. This "hackable" and i3/Sway-inspired Wayland compositor has landed a WebAssembly-based plug-in system for opening up new possibilities as well as a new Rust API with this week's v0.9 release...

Linux 7.0 Adds Support For New Keys On Upcoming Laptops For Expanded AI Agent Interactions

Phoronix - Thu, 04/09/2026 - 08:50
Since last year the Linux kernel already supported the Microsoft Copilot key appearing on recent laptops to trigger AI agent interactions. That keyboard key is becoming more common but now three additional new keys have been standardized for additional AI integration on future PCs. Merged today for Linux 7.0 is supporting those new standardized keycodes for AI use...

TrueNAS 26 Beta Brings Linux 6.18 LTS + OpenZFS 2.4 Combination For NAS Devices

Phoronix - Thu, 04/09/2026 - 08:21
TrueNAS 26 Beta released today as the initial test release for this next version of this Linux-based operating system for network attached storage (NAS) devices and more...

Redox OS Establishes AI Policy To Forbid Contributions Made Using LLMs

Phoronix - Thu, 04/09/2026 - 05:19
The Rust-based Redox OS open-source operating system provided a status update on all of their interesting development activities during the month of March. In addition to a lot of code improvements, Redox OS also enhanced its documentation as well as added an AI policy to reject any contributions relying on large language models...

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