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AlmaLinux OS Kitten 10 Begins Supporting RISC-V

Phoronix - Wed, 03/18/2026 - 01:45
The community-focused, RHEL/CentOS-derived AlmaLinux distribution announced its support today for the RISC-V CPU ISA with AlmaLinux Kitten 10 builds being made available...

Microsoft, OpenAI & Others Pony Up $12.5M To Strengthen Open-Source Security

Phoronix - Wed, 03/18/2026 - 00:12
The Linux Foundation announced today that $12.5 million USD in grants from the likes of OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS, GitHub, Google, and Microsoft have been collected to invest in strengthening the security of the open-source software ecosystem...

System76 New Thelio Mira Linux Desktop Running Strong - Powered By AMD Ryzen 9000 Series

Phoronix - Tue, 03/17/2026 - 23:30
Last week we provided a first look at the new and completely-redesigned System76 Thelio Mira desktop chassis. Today System76 is formally announcing the availability of their new Thelio Mira Linux desktop.

Intel Compute Runtime 26.09.37435.1 Brings More Features & Performance Optimizations

Phoronix - Tue, 03/17/2026 - 23:19
Following this morning's Intel Graphics Compiler 2.30.1 release, the Intel Compute Runtime 26.09.37435.1 is now available for this open-source OpenCL and Level Zero compute stack for Intel graphics hardware on Windows and Linux...

System76 Makes The Best Open-Source Keyboard Even Better

Phoronix - Tue, 03/17/2026 - 22:30
If System76 engineers didn't already have enough going on with recently shipping the COSMIC Rust-based desktop environment and also shipping Pop!_OS 24.04 as their in-house Linux distribution plus completely redesigning the Thelio Desktop, they also recently revised their Launch Keyboard. They have made this leading open-source keyboard design even better with the latest iteration of the System76 Launch Keyboard.

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