Dimitris Gounaridis reports progress on porting Enlightenment desktop to NetBSD as part of Google Summer of Code 2026. Key fixes include correcting the shutdown command to power off rather than halt the system, resolving an efreet cache error by increasing kernel file descriptor limits, and upstreaming window manager changes. Work continues on updating pkgsrc packages with the latest patches and fixes.
Microsoft used an LLM agent to port Copilot runtime to Rust, reportedly spending $120K on the project. The Rust compiler handled the agentic translation without issues.
Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich used AI to port ZoomIt, a Windows screen zooming and annotation tool he created over 20 years ago, to macOS in just two days. The AI-assisted effort achieved approximately 90% functionality, far exceeding Russinovich's expectations for what would normally require months of manual development work.
Rockbox and Doom have been successfully ported to run on iPod nano 3rd generation devices. The port is currently under review, with some flash models not yet supported.
A developer has released an early preview of GEFS, a crash-safe copy-on-write file system originally written for 9front, now being ported to OpenBSD. The port is not production-ready and data loss is expected, but remaining issues are understood and the code is available for testing and development.