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Canonical Gets Flutter Up And Running On RISC-V For Ubuntu

Phoronix - Fri, 11/21/2025 - 05:04
Canonical has been bullish on RISC-V with Ubuntu being one of the most common Linux distributions endorsed by RISC-V board vendors. Canonical also has been bullish on the Flutter toolkit for crafting their desktop installer UI and other modern UI/app interfaces. But these two together haven't panned out with Flutter not currently supporting RISC-V. Canonical has submitted pull requests now for enabling RISC-V support with Flutter...

PHP 8.5 Released With New Pipe Operator, New URI Extension & Clone With

Phoronix - Fri, 11/21/2025 - 03:19
PHP 8.5 is out today as the annual major feature release for this popular scripting language...

Updated Steam Runtime Switches To Debian 13 Libraries, SDL2 Using Compatibility Layer

Phoronix - Fri, 11/21/2025 - 01:34
An updated version of the Steam Linux Runtime 4 branch was rolled out that has now shifted from Debian 11 to Debian 13 libraries for some significant upgrades. In the process more libraries have gone x86_64 only in foregoing the i386 builds. In addition, the SDL 2 library support for the Steam Runtime is now provided by sdl2-compat as the compatibility layer for SDL2 atop SDL3...

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