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44% Of GNOME Core Apps Are Written In C, 13% In JavaScript & 10% In Rust

GNOME developer Sophie Herold has shared some interesting end-of-year code stats for the GNOME project. The "GNOME" codebase is up to 6,692,516 lines of code at the end of 2025 with 1,611,526 lines of that being from GNOME apps. Where the data gets interesting is on the programming language breakdown in different areas...

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Intel Open-Source Software Setback: IWD Development Hiatus

Adding to the unfortunate engineering setbacks at Intel this year as part of cost-cutting measures, the Intel IWD software development has been on a hiatus for the past three months. Going from previously seeing monthly releases and almost constant activity to now development ceasing up with no activity in the past three months...

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Linux 6.19 Lands Fix For ARM64 EFI Systems Crashing On Boot

Adding to the early headaches of Linux 6.19 with some regressions in performance and functionality were ARM64 hosts crashing on this in-development kernel version for those platforms using EFI. But a fix is now merged ahead of Linux 6.19-rc3 due out tomorrow...

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Turntable Adds Collapsible Player Controls, End of Year Recap

A new version of Turntable, the standalone music scrobbling tool and desktop ‘now playing’ controls for Linux, is out with a couple of notable new features. Given the app is a conduit for relaying your listening habits, this update adds “wrapped year-in-review” style recap of your hither logged listening habits. Well, kinda. Turntable’s developer, Evan Paterakis, says the year-end recap feature is an ‘experiment’ so far from perfect. This is because the app doesn’t track your listening habits itself, merely relays it to your preferred service. Since “different services provide different levels of information and assets and almost none provide […]