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Intel Ends Open Ecosystem Community/Evangelism, Archives Other Open-Source Projects

Phoronix - Thu, 04/23/2026 - 04:28
Over the past number of months there has been a steady flow of Intel open-source projects archived on GitHub amid the corporate restructuring at the company and realigning of their open-source focus. This week another batch of Intel open-source projects were formally archived...

Ubuntu Rust Coreutils Audit Revealed 113 Issues, Ubuntu 26.10 Aims For "100% Rust Coreutils"

Phoronix - Thu, 04/23/2026 - 00:21
Ahead of tomorrow's Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release, Canonical published a blog post today outlining the state of Rust Coreutils for its premiere in this long-term support (LTS) version. Canonical also commissioned a security audit recently of Rust Coreutils that turned up 44 CVEs and 113 issues in total...

GCC 16 Compiler Nearly Ready For Release With Zen 6, AVX10.2, APX & Algol 68

Phoronix - Wed, 04/22/2026 - 23:53
GCC 16.1 as the first stable version of the GCC 16 compiler is nearly ready for its official debut as this year's major feature release for this open-source compiler...

FreeBSD Working On Intel FRED Support, Laptop Improvements Continue

Phoronix - Wed, 04/22/2026 - 23:30
FreeBSD is out today with their Q1-2026 status report to outline the many different development initiatives their open-source developers have participated in over the past quarter. There is a lot of hardware enablement efforts ongoing as well as continuing to make a more compelling desktop experience and also improving GUI and management options for FreeBSD systems...

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