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Rust Multimedia: A 21-Year-Old Rewriting FFmpeg in Rust—Crazy or Genius?
A 21-year-old developer, Ajay Kumar, is rewriting FFmpeg from scratch in pure Rust. Why would anyone do this, and what does Rust change for multimedia work?

Manjaro 26.0 Is Here - Let's Talk About This Linux Distro
Manjaro 26.0 is officially released with KDE Plasma 6.5, Linux 6.18 kernel and more. Let’s check out what’s new in this beginner-friendly Arch-based distro.
open-coreui: Turning Open WebUI into a Rust food truck
open-coreui is a lite rewrite of Open WebUI v0.6.32: original frontend, rust/actix-web backend, single-binary deployment without Docker/Python/Postgres/Redis.

Pop!_OS 24.04 is Here: The World's First Rust-Built Desktop Environment
System76 releases Pop!_OS 24.04 and COSMIC desktop environment - the first production-grade desktop environment written entirely in Rust, challenging 20 years of GTK/Qt dominance. In-depth review: performance, customization, and tiling window management

European Governments Are Ditching Microsoft for Linux - What Do You Think of This Move?
Governments in Germany, Denmark, Spain and beyond are migrating from Windows to Linux at scale. This isn’t a drill - it’s really happening.
Mistral 3 Official Release: The Latest Work from Europe’s AI Giant
While OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic battle it out across the Atlantic, Europe’s AI power is quietly rising. On December 2, Paris-based Mistral AI officially released its third-generation model family, Mistral 3.

Snapdom: A New Engine for Web Screenshots, Say Goodbye to Lag
Snapdom gained 2000+ stars in two months - how does it use SVG magic to make web screenshots lightning fast? Say goodbye to html2canvas lag and experience the modern web screenshot solution