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ReactOS began 2026 with another "major step" towards Windows NT 6 compatibility with updating its MSVCRT implementation from Wine for the Microsoft C Runtime DLL library. That improved support for a number of Windows applications running on this open-source OS. ReactOS is taking another step-forward now with addressing a very annoying usability issue where up until now you may need to refresh the file manager for seeing folder changes...

Wine 11.0 Brings Fully Supported WoW64 Mode and Linux Kernel NTSync Support  Linuxiac

Linux Mint 22.3 Released, This is What’s New  OMG! Ubuntu

Wine 11 is here with big improvements for Windows apps on Linux  How-To Geek

Using GNOME On Linux  commandlinux.com

GOG's new owner can't stand Windows either: 'It's such poor-quality software… I can't believe it!'  PC Gamer

Over 1 million Windows users have jumped ship — Zorin OS 18 is booming  Windows Central

Linux Mint 22.3 Released with New App Menu, OSK & System Apps  OMG! Ubuntu

The KDE Plasma 6.6 beta release is available today for helping to test this next iteration of the Plasma 6 desktop...

Windows compatibility layer Wine 11 arrives bringing masses of improvements to Linux  GamingOnLinux

Linux Kernel’s Future: TAB Integrates Rust, Navigates AI, Boosts Collaboration  WebProNews

When it comes to software leveraging Intel Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) functionality in modern Xeon processors, it's largely been limited to AI applications/libraries like oneDNN, OpenVINO, DeepRec, etc. But Intel now has another great open-source real-world AMX demonstrator with their Open Image Denoise library. This open-source library providing high quality denoising filters for images rendered using ray-tracing can end up benefiting big time from AMX-FP16 (AMX-COMPLEX) found with the newest Xeon 6 "Granite Rapids" processors. I ran some benchmarks of their new Open Image Denoise library with AMX-FP16 and was honestly blown away by the results.

Check out the full first video episode for Games For Everyone  GamingOnLinux

As expected, Wine 11.0 stable was officially released today. This is a big step forward for this open-source software to run Windows games and applications on Linux and other platforms. Wine also serves as the basis for Valve's Steam Play (Proton) that has been critical to the recent successes of Linux gaming...

Hytale has arrived in Early Access with Linux support  GamingOnLinux

Vanilla OS vs. Bazzite: Which immutable Linux distro is right for you?  ZDNET

Linus Torvalds has started vibe coding, just not on Linux  TechSpot

Building off this past weekend's Debian 13.3 release is now Debian Libre Live 13.3 images for this derivative that ships the install/live media without any of the non-free firmware assets to remain a free software blessed image...

Linus Torvalds tries vibe coding, world still intact somehow  theregister.com

NVIDIA 580.126.09 Released to Improve Compatibility with Recent Linux Kernels  9to5Linux