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Python Developers Looking At Introducing The Rust Programming Language In CPython

Phoronix - Tue, 11/18/2025 - 19:29
A proposal has been raised by two CPython core developers to introduce the Rust programming language to CPython. Initially the focus is on allowing Rust to be used for developing optional extension modules for CPython but ultimately their goal is for Rust to become a hard dependency of CPython and used throughout its codebase...

SUSE's Agama 18 OS Installer Released - i586 Support Dropped

Phoronix - Tue, 11/18/2025 - 19:17
SUSE developers working on their modern Agama operating system installer used by SUSE Linux Enterprise 16 and openSUSE is out with a new release. With Agama 18 they have officially dropped support for 32-bit / i586 processors...

The State Of The AMD RADV Vulkan Driver In Late 2025

Phoronix - Tue, 11/18/2025 - 19:08
In addition to talking about the Valve-backed open-source driver work for old AMD Radeon GPUs, Timur Kristóf also presented at the XDC2025 conference on the state of the RADV Vulkan driver. Timur was joined by Daniel Schürmann to talk about the great Linux gaming experience now possible on the RADV driver with the work done by Valve, AMD, Red Hat, Google, and the open-source community. RADV ray-tracing is much better today than in the past, the ACO compiler back-end has turned out very well, and RADV is all-around a great example of an open-source Vulkan API driver...

MLPerf Client 1.5 Introduces Experimental Linux Support

Phoronix - Tue, 11/18/2025 - 18:53
MLPerf Client as MLCommons' machine language inferencing benchmark for client form factors / PCs now has a Linux build. MLPerf Client 1.5 was released yesterday with an experimental Linux build but for now at least is not nearly as full-featured as this AI benchmark on Windows and macOS...

OpenZFS 2.4 Squeezes In Some Last Minute Improvements

Phoronix - Tue, 11/18/2025 - 09:48
Following OpenZFS 2.4-rc3 from nearly one month ago is now a fourth release candidate for the upcoming OpenZFS 2.4. A few more features and improvements have been squeezed into this release in nearing the stable milestone...

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