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Devuan Developer Working On Reviving GTK2 With Modern Fixes
2+ hour, 5+ min ago (202+ words) A Devuan developer, the Linux distribution that provides a Debian-based operating system without dependence on systemd, is working on "gtk2-ng" for providing modern fixes and improvements to the old GTK2 toolkit. .. - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards…...
GCC 16's Improved Error Messages, Experimental HTML Output
22+ hour, 58+ min ago (221+ words) GCC 16. 1 as the first stable version of the GCC 16 compiler is releasing as soon as later this week if all goes well. Among the many improvements in this year's open-source compiler update are continued enhancements to the error messages as…...
Farewell ISDN, Ham Radio & Old Network Drivers: Linus Torvalds Merges 138k L. O. C. Removal
4+ day, 17+ hour ago (240+ words) Linus Torvalds did it! He merged the pull request to rid the Linux kernel of the old Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) subsystem and various other old network drivers largely for PCMCIA era network adapters. This was the code suggested…...
GCC 16 Compiler Nearly Ready For Release With Zen 6, AVX10. 2, APX & Algol 68
6+ day, 20+ hour ago (205+ words) 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. .. - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage…...
Ubuntu Looks Toward More Snap-Based Devpacks Moving Forward
6+ day, 22+ hour ago (230+ words) Canonical is out with a new blog post today outlining toolchain changes to Ubuntu Linux from Ubuntu 24. 04 LTS to Ubuntu 26. 04 LTS due for release tomorrow. While those changes over the past two years aren't too news worthy if you have…...
Linux 7. 1 Staging Ushered In More Developers To Make Their First Kernel Contributions
1+ week, 1+ day ago (225+ words) Over the weekend Greg Kroah-Hartman sent out his various pull requests for the areas of the kernel he oversees. Among those is the staging area where this time around the notable activity isn't too much about feature work but many…...
Git 2. 54 Released With New Experimental "git history" Command
1+ week, 1+ day ago (356+ words) Git developers continue working toward Git 3. 0 while out today is Git 2. 54 with a few interesting additions. .. - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage Operating Systems Peripherals Git 2. 54 Released With New Experimental "git history" Command…...
Popular Rust-Based Database Turns To AI For Up To 1. 5x Speedup, Other Improvements
1+ week, 2+ day ago (220+ words) Redb is one of the open-source, embed-friendly key-value databases written in the Rust programming language. Redb is ACID-compliant while known for being high performance and with its new Redb 4. 1 release is even faster thanks to some improvements authored by Claude…...
Rust 1. 95 Released With Several Improvements
1+ week, 5+ day ago (141+ words) Rust 1. 95 was released to the wild today as the latest feature update to this popular programming language. .. - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage Operating Systems Peripherals Rust 1. 95 Released With Several Improvements Michael Larabel…...
SDL Adds Policy To Forbid LLM/AI Generated Code Contributions
1+ week, 6+ day ago (371+ words) The SDL library widely used by cross-platform games and part of the Steam Runtime has now established a policy to block code contributions made using AI / Large Language Models (LLMs). .. - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards…...