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Servo 0.0.1 Browser Engine Released

Phoronix - Mon, 10/20/2025 - 18:10
It was to much surprise waking up this morning and seeing the Servo 0.0.1 release for this Rust-based web layout engine that began as a Mozilla project and is now being developed independently via Linux Foundation Europe and other parties...

Linux 6.18-rc2 Released: "rc2 is on the bigger side"

Phoronix - Mon, 10/20/2025 - 09:42
Linux 6.18-rc2 is now available with another week's worth of fixes for Linux 6.18, which is anticipated to be this year's Long Term Support (LTS) kernel version...

Linux 6.18-rc2 Will Make Sure To Wipe Stale Information About AMD System Reboots

Phoronix - Sun, 10/19/2025 - 21:00
Linux 6.16 introduced the ability to report the cause of AMD system resets/reboots thanks to specialized information available on AMD Zen platforms for indicating the detected cause of previous resets. This is a handy addition and the information is automatically reported to the kernel log on the next system boot, but in some instances that information could be stale/inaccurate. Today's Linux 6.18-rc2 will fix that...

AYANEO 3 Modular Handheld Console Prepares For Better Linux Support With New Driver

Phoronix - Sun, 10/19/2025 - 18:43
There has already been hardware monitoring support and other functionality in place under Linux for various AYANEO devices while a new platform driver is being worked on for the new AYANEO 3 device...

GCC Front-End Patches Updated For Algol 68 Programming Language

Phoronix - Sun, 10/19/2025 - 18:28
At the start of the calendar year there was a proposal for a new GCC front-end for the Algol 68 programming language. GCC developers deferred merging Algol 68 support into GCC for this rarely talked about vintage programming language. But as talked about back at the GNU Tools Cauldron 2025, the developer is still working on the support. Sure enough, this week brought a new version of this GCC front-end...

Multi-Kernel Architecture Patches Updated For The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Sun, 10/19/2025 - 18:10
Posted to the Linux kernel mailing list one month ago were patches for a multi-kernel architecture design to allow multiple independent kernel instances to co-exist on the same single physical machine. This could let some CPU cores be running real-time "RT" kernels or other non-traditional uses between CPU cores. It wasn't clear how far the multi-kernel patches would get especially with some initial negative views toward it and Bytedance separately proposing "Parker" for multi-kernel usage just days later. In any event, today a second version of the multi-kernel Linux patches were posted...

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