Up to now when creating a new folder on the desktop or other folder of ReactOS, it would
ReactOS Receives Fix For A Very Annoying Usability Issue
Up to now when creating a new folder on the desktop or other folder of ReactOS, it would
KDE Plasma 6.6 Beta Released With Plasma Login Manager, Plasma Setup
New modules with Plasma 6.6 include the Plasma Login Manager, Plasma Keyboard, and Plasma Setup. All three additions are nice, especially Plasma Login Manager as the new SDDM alternative as a modern log-in/display manager that is already being eyed by Fedora KDE and others. Plasma Setup as an initial setup tool is also useful as-is the new on-screen keyboard option.
Wine 11.0 Released With Many Improvements For Windows Games & Apps On Linux
Wine 11.0 brings NTSYNC support when running on recent versions of the Linux kernel, the new WoW64 mode is stable, exclusive full-screen mode support, better
Intel's Fantastic New Open-Source Demonstrator For AMX-BF16: Over 4x The Performance At 69% The Power
When it comes to software leveraging Intel Advanced Matrix Extensions ( AMX ) functionality in modern Xeon processors, it's largely been limited to AI applications/libraries like oneDNN, OpenVINO, DeepRec, etc. But Intel now has another great open-source real-world AMX demonstrator with their Open Image Denoise library. This open-source library providing high quality denoising filters for images rendered using ray-tracing can end up benefiting big time from AMX-FP16 (AMX-COMPLEX) found with the newest Xeon 6
Debian Libre Live 13.3 Images Released For Avoiding Non-Free Firmware
Debian back in 2022 decided to allow non-free firmware on the install media for hardware requiring it . Te non-free-firmware was permitted since on Debian install images and live images. When Debian previously shipped without the non-free firmware
FFmpeg Merges A Number Of Vulkan Improvements To Start 2026
Bcachefs Ships Latest User-Space Utilities With bcachefs-tools 1.35
The bcachefs-tools 1.35 changes come down to the following noted in the release change-log:
## v1.35.0 - Mon Jan 12 2026
bcachefs_metadata_
LLVM/Clang 22 Feature Development Ends With Intel Nova Lake, Arm C1 & Ampere1C Support
LLVM/Clang 22 was branched and thus feature development is over as now they begin working on the release candidate phase with bug fixing. This half-year update to the LLVM compiler stack brings a lot of new hardware support, various new compiler features and language support, and other enhancements.
Some of the LLVM 22 highlights include:
- Clang now supports Named Loops
wl-proxy Announced As Rust Crate For Proxying Wayland Connections
With wl-proxy is a new Rust-based way for proxying Wayland connections and manipulating the behavior. As part of wl-proxy are also some demo applications using it such as wl-veil to hide globals or downgrade global versions, wl-format-filter to hide buffer formats or modifiers, wl-paper to run arbitrary applications as layer-shell applications, and window-
Haiku OS Pulls In Updated Drivers From FreeBSD 15
During the month of December they updated their FreeBSD driver compatibility layer against FreeBSD 15.0 that released at the start of the month. With that the Haiku OS developers then updated all of their Ethernet and WiFi drivers from FreeBSD to align with the FreeBSD 15.0 release.
December also brought many application fixes for Haiku, improved support for Elantech touchpads, mouse driver improvements,