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AlmaLinux continues to push forward with its Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) clone, with AlmaLinux 9.4 adding improvements over RHEL.

AlmaLinux has patched a moderate security vulnerability before Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), a first for the RHEL clone distro.

Moving SciPy to Meson meant finding a different Fortran compiler on Windows, which was particularly tricky to pull off for conda-forge. This blog tells the story about how things looked pretty grim for the Python 3.12 release, and how things ended up working out just in the nick of time.

Google is increasing support for the RISC-V instruction set architecture, which means we could see phones using RISC-V chips in the future. - SamMobile

AlmaLinux appears to be succeeding in its goal to provide Red Hat Enterprise Linux compatibility despite recent challenges.

Its not easy, but it can be done by pulling largely from the CentOS Stream codebase.

Fiber, a less known concept compared with coroutine, is a pretty powerful addition to cooperative multitasking. As a graphics programmer in game industry, I totally appreciate the great flexibility that fiber brings on the table. As a matter of fact, I feel the tech is a little bit underappreciated due to the lack of sufficient public materials talking about fibers. In this blog post, I will put down some of my learnings about fiber basics.

Open sourcing our learnings around Windows APIs, COM, C++ and their delightful integration into Swift - while building Arc.

This blog post is designed to highlight some of the risks which are posed with moving a code base towards coroutines, I believe that ongoing poor coroutine usage could lead to more insecure and slower programs.

The saga continues.