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FOSS Forceโ€™s Top Ten for April

Hereโ€™s what people were reading the most on FOSS Force during the month of April, 2026. The post FOSS Forceโ€™s Top Ten for April appeared first on FOSS Force.

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NVIDIA Looking To Create New Tool For Generating AutoFDO Profiles For GCC

NVIDIA compiler engineers are looking to develop a standalone tool that could be upstreamed into the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) codebase for generating AutoFDO profiles for consumption by GCC in turn for better benefiting from automatic feedback directed optimizations (FDO) in the name of better performance...

LWN.net

Alpine Linux systems currently offline

The Alpine Linux account on fosstodon.org reports that all systems hosted at Linode, including its GitLab instance, "are suspended at the moment due to some billing issue". They are working to get it resolved, but in the meantime all of their services appear to be down.

LWN.net

[$] Bug-monitoring expectations and Fedora GNOME packages

For a number of years, users submitting bugs reports against GNOME packages in Fedora have received an auto-reply saying that the reports were not actively monitored; users were encouraged to file bugs with GNOME upstream instead. However, that practice seems to be in conflict with the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) policy that package maintainers "deal with reported bugs in a timely manner". On April 28, FESCo discussed the disconnect between practice and policy; so far, it has only opted to tweak the wording of the automatic response.