Linux Mint 22.2 Beta Released, This is What’s New
A modernised theme, fingerprint login support, and a more immersive way to watch TV channels o n your desktop are among features in Linux Mint 22.2, which just hit beta. Linux Mint 22.2 “Zara” is the third update in the Linux Mint 22 series, and ad...
A developer’s guide to code generation
I started my career as an architect and coder working on AI algorithms for image processing, natural language processing, and search. Flash-forward to today, my coding is limited to low-code platforms to perform basic automation, data collection, and ...
The rise of AI model-as-a-service ecosystems
The rapid growth of model catalogs from hyperscalers and third-party providers is creating an environment where the heavy lifting of model hosting, versioning, monitoring, and billing can be outsourced. I appreciate others’ model efforts because the...
Linux Mint 22.2 “Zara” – BETA Release
This is the BETA release for Linux Mint 22.2 “Zara”. Linux Mint 22.2 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2029. It comes with updated software and brings refinements and many new features to make your desktop even more comfo...
ZLUDA Implements Kernel Cache Support To Help With Performance
ZLUDA as the open-source solution bringing CUDA to non-NVIDIA hardware has been seeing a nice uptick in activity the past several months for its latest take on life. The latest feature merged to ZLUDA is the all-important kernel cache to help with perf...
Rust 1.89 underscores arguments to const generics
The Rust team has released Rust 1.89.0 stable, an update to the fast and safe programming language that features support for explicitly inferred arguments to const generics. The Rust release team announced the new version on August 7. Developers who ...
KDE improves focus stealing prevention on Wayland
You click a link in your chat app, your browser with a hundred tabs comes to the front and opens that page. How hard can it be? Well, you probably know by now that Wayland, unlike X, doesn’t let one application force its idiot wishes on everyone else...
GNOME 49 backlight changes
One of the things I’m working on at Red Hat is HDR support. HDR is inherently linked to luminance (brightness, but ignoring human perception) which makes it an important parameter for us that we would like to be in control of. ↫ Sebastian Wick A re...
Who does Gen Z trust outside the algorithm?
This essay was originally published on The Sidebar, Mozilla’s Substack. When I started my newsletter, as seen on, a little over a year ago, it was because in the absence of early morning commutes, a designated office desk, and the water cooler conver...
GitHub becomes part of Microsoft’s “AI” organisation
It seems Microsoft is absorbing GitHub deeper into Microsoft. GitHub’s CEO Thomas Dohmke is stepping down, and GitHub will be integrated into a new department within Microsoft. Which department will become the new stewards of GitHub, and the massive ...
Ubuntu 25.10 May Ship with an “Unstable” Linux Kernel
Ubuntu 25.10 may ship with a Linux 6.17 release candidate kernel due to timing conflicts, marking the first Ubuntu release with an "unstable" kernel. You're reading Ubuntu 25.10 May Ship with an “Unstable” Linux Kernel, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu...
