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Linux Kernel Developers Again Discussing AI Agent Attribution - Potentially Dropping It
3+ hour, 9+ min ago (232+ words) When AI/LLM agents are used in the creation of Linux kernel patches, the policy for a while now has been that it should be specified using an "Assisted-by" tag as part of the patches/commits. But Linux kernel developers…...
Vibe Coded X11 Server Written In Rust Adds Xinerama, Free BSD Support & Other Features
6+ hour, 5+ min ago (194+ words) Phoronix - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage Operating Systems Peripherals Vibe Coded X11 Server Written In Rust Adds Xinerama, Free BSD Support & Other Features Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix. com and…...
GCC 16. 2 Being Planned For Early August Release
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (214+ words) For those that prefer waiting until the first bug-fix/point release before upgrading to a major new feature series, GCC 16. 2 is being planned for an early August release for delivering back-ported bug fixes to the GCC 16 compiler. .. - Categories Computers Display…...
Linux 7. 2 Features: Cache Aware Scheduling, USB4 STREAM, AMD ISP4, AMDGPU HDMI 2. 1 FRL
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (414+ words) Linux 7. 2 is working toward release in August with its more than 43 million lines in the codebase. With Linux 7. 2 there are many new changes in tow as summed up in today's feature overview. Continue reading for the more exhaustive overview of…...
Servo Browser Engine Continues Making Much Progress On Less Than $8k Monthly
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (232+ words) Released last week was the Servo 0. 3 browser engine release along with their latest Servoshell demo browser. Today the project has published their monthly development recap to highlight all of the interesting changes made. Here's a look at what they accomplished…...
Next Bcachefs Release Aims To Include Rust Code In The Kernel Module
2+ day, 22+ hour ago (236+ words) The Bcachefs file-system already makes use of the Rust programming language in the user-space tools for this Co W file-system and they have been planning to make use of Rust within the kernel module too. Beginning in the next Bcachefs…...
Git 2. 55 Released With Rust Support Enabled By Default, git history fixup
3+ day, 30+ min ago (190+ words) Phoronix - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage Operating Systems Peripherals Git 2. 55 Released With Rust Support Enabled By Default, git history fixup Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix. com and founded the…...
DXVK 3. 0 Released With DXBC-SPIRV For Shader Compilation, Descriptor Heaps By Default
6+ day, 21+ hour ago (214+ words) Philip Rebohle announced the release today of DXVK 3. 0 as the latest major feature release for this Direct3 D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 implementation atop the Vulkan API for use by Wine and Valve's Steam Play (Proton). .. - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory…...
"Disgusting" Linux sched_ext Source Code Restructured Following Complaint By Linus Torvalds
1+ week, 1+ day ago (250+ words) Last week the main set of sched_ext changes were merged for Linux 7. 2 that included continued work on sub-scheduler support. While Linus Torvalds didn't object to any of the features being worked on for this extensible scheduler framework that relies on user-space…...
BASIC09 Programming Language Front-End Developed For LLVM
1+ week, 1+ day ago (229+ words) The 46-year-old BASIC09 programming language has new compiler support with a front-end having been developed for the LLVM compiler stack. BASIC09 was developed in 1980 for the Motorola 6809 CPU running with the OS-9 operating system. With this LLVM compiler front-end, you can write…...