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Building optimized LLM chatbots with Canonical and NVIDIA
The landscape of generative AI is rapidly evolving, and building robust, scalable large language model (LLM) applications is becoming a critical need for many organizations. Canonical, in collaboration with NVIDIA, is excited to introduce a reference a...
2025-03-19 21:05
Kali Linux 2025.1 Ethical Hacking Distro Is Here with Xfce 4.20, Refreshed Theme
Kali Linux 2025.1 ethical hacking and penetration testing distribution is now available for download with Xfce 4.20 and KDE Plasma 6.2. Here's what's new! The post Kali Linux 2025.1 Ethical Hacking Distro Is Here with Xfce 4.20, Refreshed Theme appeare...
2025-03-19 20:34
SoftBank Acquiring ARM Server CPU Vendor Ampere Computing
SoftBank Group just announced they will be acquiring Ampere Computing, the leader in ARM64 server processors that has come under increasing pressure with more of the public cloud service providers like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon/AWS turning to their...
2025-03-19 19:38
GNOME 48 Released, This is What’s New
Aloha, GNOME 48 — a new version of the GNOME desktop environment is out with a swathe of new features, UI buffs, and technical integrations that will have plenty of folks clamouring to upgrade. The latest version of the ever-evolving desktop environ...
2025-03-19 19:09
GNOME 48 Released with Major New Features
Aloha, GNOME 48 — a new version of the GNOME desktop environment is out with a swathe of new features, UI buffs, and technical integrations that will have plenty of folks clamouring to upgrade. GNOME 48 focuses on improving our daily workflow throug...
2025-03-19 19:09
GNOME 48 Release Brings Major New Features
Aloha, GNOME 48 — a new version of the GNOME desktop environment is out with a swathe of new features, UI buffs, and technical integrations that will have plenty of folks clamouring to upgrade. GNOME 48 focuses on improving our daily workflow throug...
2025-03-19 19:09
Linux Foundation Newsletter: March 2025
Welcome to the March 2025 edition of the LF Newsletter. We’ve got a lot to cover--the 2025 Tech Talent Survey is in the field, an intent to form, research events + two new reports, and more! We are so glad you’re here. Check out the highlights, sa...
2025-03-19 17:02
Linux Foundation Newsletter: March 2025
Welcome to the March 2025 edition of the LF Newsletter. We’ve got a lot to cover--the 2025 Tech Talent Survey is in the field, an intent to form, research events + two new reports, and more! We are so glad you’re here. Check out the highlights, sa...
2025-03-19 17:02
GNOME 48 “Bengaluru” Desktop Environment Officially Released, This Is What’s New
GNOME 48 desktop environment is now available with dynamic triple buffering, Wayland color management protocol, and a new Wellbeing feature. Here's what's new! The post GNOME 48 “Bengaluru” Desktop Environment Officially Released, This Is What’s ...
2025-03-19 16:22
Fedora 43 Hopes To Set An Expectation That Package Builds Are Reproducible
A change proposal filed for the upcoming Fedora Linux 43 development cycles hopes to establish an expectation that RPM package builds for the distribution are reproducible...
2025-03-19 15:33
Unlocking Edge AI: a collaborative reference architecture with NVIDIA
The world of edge AI is rapidly transforming how devices and data centers work together. Imagine healthcare tools powered by AI, or self-driving vehicles making real-time decisions. These advancements rely on bringing AI directly to edge devices. Howev...
2025-03-19 15:12
SUSE extends eLearning discount to openSUSE Members
SUSE, the main sponsor of the openSUSE Project, is offering a discount on its eLearning platform for members looking to enhance their skills in SUSE technologies. The eLearning offers a variety of training courses that could be useful to openSUSE users...
2025-03-19 14:00
GNOME 48 Released With New Default Font, HDR Support, New Audio Player & More
GNOME 48 is officially out as the newest stable release for this open-source desktop that will be powering the likes of Fedora Workstation 42 and Ubuntu 25.04...
2025-03-19 12:38
Another Round Of Rust Compiler Improvements Merged For GCC 15.1
A few days ago there was a batch of 145 patches merged for the upcoming GCC 15 compiler release to enhance the Rust "gccrs" front-end. That big set of patches merged the Polonius borrow checker and made other notable improvements. Today another 144 pat...
2025-03-19 11:28
Intel Wrapping Up Family 18 / Family 19 CPU Model Preparations Ahead Of Linux 6.15
Over the past year Intel has been working to prepare the Linux kernel for the end of the "Family 6" CPU era. There's been a big rework to the Intel CPU model handling within the Linux kernel given that "Family 6" has been in use since the 1990s and mov...
2025-03-19 10:20
Beyond The ROCm Software, AMD Has Been Making Great Strides In Documentation & Robust Containers
AMD recently allowed me some time with their AMD Accelerator Cloud (AAC) leveraging multiple Instinct MI300X accelerators. During this brief opportunity to try out their latest software advancements with the Instinct MI300X and the ROCm compute stack, ...
2025-03-19 08:56
Intel AVX10 Drops Optional 512-bit: No AVX10 256-bit Only E-Cores In The Future
Intel updated their AVX10 whitepaper and associated open-source compiler patches around this next Advanced Vector Extensions standard... While AVX10 had intended to allow either 256-bit or 612-bit modes depending upon processor capabilities, Intel has ...
2025-03-19 06:48
Linux 6.15 To Support The Airoha NPU - A RISC-V Network Processor Unit
Patches queued up this month into net-next ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel merge window add support for the Airoha NPU... Not to be confused with the Neural Processing Unit (NPU) that is all the rage these days for helping with AI, the Airoha N...
2025-03-19 06:36
DRM Sync Object Optimizations Show Minor Benefit On The Steam Deck
Tvrtko Ursulin of Igalia has been working on some optimizations to the DRM synchronization object "drm_syncobj" code for slightly more efficient use on the CPU side...
2025-03-19 06:27
elementary OS 8.0.1 Released with Linux Kernel 6.11 from Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS
elementary OS 8.0.1 distribution is now available for download with Linux kernel 6.11 from Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS and many other changes. Here's what's new! The post elementary OS 8.0.1 Released with Linux Kernel 6.11 from Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS appeared first...
2025-03-19 02:28