Asahi Linux Gets Alpha GPU Drivers on Apple Silicon
After two years of work to reverse engineer Apple Silicon GPU instruction set and to implement the kernel driver, Asahi Linux has finally got an alpha-quality release of its GPU driver that is already good enough to run a smooth desktop experience and some games, Asahi developers Alyssa Rosenzweig and Asahi Lina say.
Linux 6.1 Officially Adds Support for Rust in the Kernel
After over two years in development, support for using Rust for kernel development has entered a stable Linux release, Linux 6.1, which became available a couple of weeks ago.
OCaml 5 Brings Support for Concurrency and Shared Memory Parallelism
Several years in the making, OCaml 5 introduces runtime support for shared memory parallelism and effect handlers, which are the basis for exception handling, concurrency, async I/O, and more.
GitHub Introduces go-gh to Simplify the Creation of GitHub CLI Extensions
Introduced in GitHub CLI 2.0, extensions allow developers to add new features by writing small Go programs. To make it easier to create extensions, GitHub is now releasing a new library, go-gh. Additionally, the latest version of GitHub CLI introduces two new commands to search and browse the catalog of available extensions.