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Linux Foundation warns of US OFAC sanctions
Developers must be cautious about who they interact with and where contributions come from, warns a Linux Foundation blog post intended to help open-source developers navigate US OFAC (Office of Foreign Assets Control) sanctions. Published January 29 ...
2025-02-03 23:03
Ardour 8.11 Open-Source DAW Is Out to Fix a Critical Workflow-Blocking Bug on Linux
Ardour 8.11 open-source digital audio workstation is now available for download with various bug fixes. Here’s what’s changed in this release! The post Ardour 8.11 Open-Source DAW Is Out to Fix a Critical Workflow-Blocking Bug on Linux appeared fir...
2025-02-03 17:42
FreeBSD On Laptops Effort Gets Proof-Of-Concept Intel 802.11 a/b/g WiFi Working
In addition to the FreeBSD Foundation funding work on s0ix sleep state support as part of their initiative to improve FreeBSD's support for modern laptops, they have also been funding work on a number of other objectives, including better WiFi driver c...
2025-02-03 17:02
GEICO Insurance Company Developing TuxTape - A New Linux Kernel Livepatching Solution
Red Hat's Kpatch, Oracle's Ksplice, and SUSE's kGraft are the most well known solutions currently for Linux kernel live-patching primarily for applying security patches to running Linux servers. It wasn't on my bingo card for insurance giant GEICO work...
2025-02-03 16:06
EU supports AI challenge to Silicon Valley and China
The European Union is backing a major AI initiative, OpenEuroLLM, in a bid to counter the dominance of Silicon Valley and China in artificial intelligence. The initiative is being led by Jan Hajič, a computational linguist at Charles University in Cz...
2025-02-03 15:49
Download the Agentic AI Enterprise Spotlight
Download the February 2025 issue of the Enterprise Spotlight from the editors of CIO, Computerworld, CSO, InfoWorld, and Network World.
2025-02-03 15:00
Slackware-Based PorteuX 1.9 Released with Linux Kernel 6.13, Docker Support
PorteuX 1.9 is now available for download with Linux kernel 6.13, Docker support, and other changes. Here’s what's new! The post Slackware-Based PorteuX 1.9 Released with Linux Kernel 6.13, Docker Support appeared first on 9to5Linux - do not reproduc...
2025-02-03 14:50
Cloud Hypervisor 44 Released With New Performance Improvements
Cloud Hypervisor 44 is now available as the newest version of this security and cloud minded Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) that operates atop Linux's KVM and the Microsoft MSHV Hypervisor...
2025-02-03 14:43
Mozilla Firefox 135 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New
Mozilla Firefox 135 open-source web browser is now available for download with XZ packaging on Linux and other Linux changes. Here's what's new! The post Mozilla Firefox 135 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New appeared first on 9to5Lin...
2025-02-03 13:44
Fwupd 2.0.5 Firmware Updater Adds Support for More ELAN Fingerprint Readers
Fwupd 2.0.5 open-source Linux firmware updater utility is now available for download with support for more ELAN Fingerprint readers and other changes. Here’s what’s new! The post Fwupd 2.0.5 Firmware Updater Adds Support for More ELAN Fingerprint R...
2025-02-03 13:39
Three New Intel Battlemage Device IDs Added To Open-Source Linux Driver
Three more PCI device IDs were added today to the Intel open-source Mesa 3D graphics driver code for Battlemage that could be for future higher-end products or along the lines of Data Center GPU Flex Series or other products...
2025-02-03 13:20
Alpine Linux In An Infrastructure Crisis With Equinix Metal Sunsetting
Last week I wrote about the crisis plaguing X.Org / FreeDesktop.org with losing out on their cloud/server infrastructure due to losing out on their free server resources provided by Equinix at the end of April. It's not only FreeDesktop.org and all tho...
2025-02-03 13:00
Faux Bus Proposed For The Linux Kernel To Better Deal With Simple Devices
Linux's second-in-command Greg Kroah-Hartman is proposing "Faux Bus" as a new "fake" bus solution for simple devices...
2025-02-03 11:20
GTK announces X11 deprecation, new Android backend, and much more
Since a number of GTK developer came together at FOSDEM, the project figured now was as good a time as any to give an update on what’s coming in GTK. First, GTK is implementing some hard cut-offs for old platforms – Windows 10 and macOS 10.15 are n...
2025-02-03 11:16
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Run Linux inside a PDF file via a RISC-V emulator
You might expect PDF files to only be comprised of static documents, but surprisingly, the PDF file format supports Javascript with its own separate standard library. Modern browsers (Chromium, Firefox) implement this as part of their PDF engines. Howe...
2025-02-03 10:49
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The GNU Guix System
GNU Guix is a package manager for GNU/Linux systems. It is designed to give users more control over their general-purpose and specialized computing environments, and make these easier to reproduce over time and deploy to one or many devices. ↫ GNU Gu...
2025-02-03 10:42
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Firefox 135 Published With Safeguards To Prevent Overwhelming The Back History
Mozilla Firefox 135 release binaries are now available for those wanting to grab the latest browser release right away...
2025-02-03 10:32
How to reduce data storage costs by up to 50% with Ceph
Canonical Ceph with IntelⓇ Quick Assist Technology (QAT) In our last blog post we talked about how you can use Intel® QAT with Canonical Ceph, today we’ll cover why this technology is important from a business perspective – in other words, we’...
2025-02-03 10:32
Red Hat Hiring To Continue Advancing The Linux Desktop In 2025
Christian Schaller as Red Hat's Director of Software Engineering outlined in a blog post today some of the areas they will be focusing on this year with Fedora Workstation development. Additionally, they will be hiring at least two more Linux desktop e...
2025-02-03 10:00
Solver can code that for you
In the area of programming automation, sometimes it’s better to fix a software problem by first analyzing the whole repository rather than guessing about what files are relevant to the problem. That’s particularly relevant when you are managing yo...
2025-02-03 09:00