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New NTFS File-System Driver Submitted For Linux 7.1

Making today very exciting in Linux 7.1 merge window land was a pull request being sent out for introducing the new, modern NTFS file-system driver. Linus Torvalds has yet to comment if he's going to merge the new driver but it looks like it's ready for providing a better Linux NTFS experience over the current NTFS3 driver that was upstreamed by Paragon Software a few years ago and hasn't seen too much feature progress...

Foss Force

FunOS: Ubuntu LTS with JWM and No Snaps

With Ubuntu LTS under the hood and JWM on top, FunOS keeps things light, snapโ€‘free, and ready for you to assemble your own workspace. The post FunOS: Ubuntu LTS with JWM and No Snaps appeared first on FOSS Force.

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Rust 1.95.0 released

Version 1.95.0 of the Rust language has been released. Changes include the addition of a cfg_select! macro, the capability to use if let guards to allow conditionals based on pattern matching, and many newly stabilized APIs. See the release notes for a full list of changes.

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Thunderbolt is an open-source โ€˜AI clientโ€™ from Mozillaโ€™s for-profit arm

Thunderbolt is a new open source AI client from the Mozilla-owned MZLA Technologies aimed at enterprises who want to run self-hosted chatbots on their own infrastructure. MZLA Technologies is the for-profit subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation that develops and maintains the Thunderbird email client. It says Thunderbolt was created with the support of a grant from Mozilla. Terrible name aside (and skipping over the fact that Intel owns a trademark for โ€˜Thunderboltโ€™), the AI MZLA Technologies used to write their press release describes Thunderbolt as a โ€œsovereign AI clientโ€ that lets organisations run and control AI infrastructure. Companies can pick whichever AI model they fancy, be [โ€ฆ]