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      KernelScript: A Programming Language For Kernel Customization & App Optimizations

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 May 2026

    Multikernel Technologies Inc has been working on a multi-kernel architecture for the Linux kernel while in addition to that they have been developing KernelScript as a domain-specific language for carrying out Linux kernel customizations and app-specific optimizations...
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      Boot-Time Wizard Aims To Help Reduce Linux Boot Times

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 May 2026

    While in the past decade or so Linux desktop/laptop users likely have little to complain about boot times and there hasn't been much emphasis around trying to make boot times even faster on the Linux desktop especially in an era where many systems are always-on and suspend/resume working more reliably these days, boot times are still an important factor in the embedded Linux world. Boot-Time Wizard is one of the new efforts aiming to help embedded Linux makers cut-down on their boot times...
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      Rust-Based Wild Linker 0.9 Brings New Platform Coverage, Linker Plugin API

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 May 2026

    Wild Linker 0.9 was released today as the latest version of this very fast linker for Linux systems that is written in the Rust programming language...
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      Linux Mint Making Improvements To Its File Manager, Theme & Dialogs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 May 2026

    The Linux Mint project today published their May 2026 status report to outline recent work done to this Ubuntu/Debian-based Linux platform and much of their focus in recent weeks on enhancements to their Cinnamon desktop environment...
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      Intel's Latest Round Of Open-Source Projects Ended: OBS Studio Plugin, CVE Binary Tool & More

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 May 2026

    With Intel having been one of the most dominant open-source contributors for years across the software ecosystem, months after they began sunsetting various software projects no longer aligned with today's Intel, they continue formally sunsetting/archiving different open-source projects...
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      AV2 Codec Looks Like It Will Be Officially Released Next Week

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 May 2026

    For years already AV2 has been in development as the successor to AV1 for this wonderful open-source, royalty-free video codec. While there was talk about releasing AV2 by the end of 2025, that didn't happen but now latest indicators are pointing toward its formal debut next week...
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      KDE Plasma 6.8 To Support System Monitor With Intel Xe, Plasma 6.7 Sees More Crash Fixes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 May 2026

    KDE developers continue to be quite busy in preparing for next month's Plasma 6.7 stable desktop release due out in mid-June while also beginning more feature work toward Plasma 6.8...
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      More ASUS & HP Laptops See Platform Driver Support For Linux 7.1-rc5

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 May 2026

    This week's x86 platform driver fixes include not only a handful of bug fixes but also enabling some additional laptops within existing drivers for HP and ASUS devices...
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      DreamWorks' Open-Source MoonRay Renderer Now Part Of The Academy Software Foundation

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 May 2026

    Back in 2022 it was announced DreamWorks Animation was open-sourcing their MoonRay renderer that has been used in production feature films. It ended up being published as open-source in March 2023 as OpenMoonRay and since then has continued advancing with new feature releases and improvements. Now it's being contributed to the Academy Software Foundation as the newest project...