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Charmed OpenSearch enters general availability
Today, Canonical announced the release of Charmed OpenSearch, an enterprise solution for OpenSearch® with advanced automation features, multi-cloud capabilities, and comprehensive support. OpenSearch is an open source search and analytics suite that ...
2024-09-25 13:58
OpenBSD now enforcing no invalid NUL characters in shell scripts
Our favorite operating system is now changing the default shell (ksh) to enforce not allowing invalid NUL characters in input that will be parsed as parts of the script. ↫ Undeadly.org As someone who doesn’t deal with stuff like this &#8211...
2024-09-25 13:39
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Intel Working To Improve Virtualization Handling For P/E-Core Hybrid CPUs
While Intel has been making steady progress around enhancing the Linux kernel handling for CPUs with a mix of P and E cores for proper task placement and power optimizations, one area that still is less than desirable for these hybrid Intel Core proces...
2024-09-25 12:03
Rust In Linux 6.12 Prepares For Rust Binder, Supports Sanitizers & CPU Mitigations
Miguel Ojeda has submitted all of the Rust toolchain and infrastructure changes for the in-development Linux 6.12 kernel...
2024-09-25 10:30
Fwupd 1.9.25 Adds Support for Dell K2 Docks and More Intel USB4 Hubs
Fwupd 1.9.25 Linux firmware updater is now available with support for Dell K2 Dock, Intel USB4 Hub, and other devices, as well as various improvements. The post Fwupd 1.9.25 Adds Support for Dell K2 Docks and More Intel USB4 Hubs appeared first on 9to5...
2024-09-25 10:20
TurtleBot3 OpenCR firmware update from a snap
The TurtleBot3 robot is a standard platform robot in the ROS community, and it’s a reference that Canonical knows well, since we’ve used it in our tutorials. As a matter of fact, we use it to demonstrate some of our work, such as distributing a ROS...
2024-09-25 09:59
Cloudflare Goes With AMD EPYC Genoa-X For Their Next-Gen Servers
Cloudflare's always-interesting technical blog laid out their details today concerning their next-gen "12th Generation" in-house servers that will be powering their vast web infrastructure. With these next-gen Cloudflare servers they are going with AMD...
2024-09-25 09:45
Intro to Node’s built-in SQLite module
Node 22.5.0 now bundles SQLite, a lightweight, in-process relational database that requires no additional infrastructure but packs considerable capability. Let’s get to know this handy new built-in feature in Node.js. What is SQLite? Relational data...
2024-09-25 09:00
Google suite leverages conversational AI for customer support
Google Cloud has introduced Customer Engagement Suite with Google AI, an application suite that combines conversational AI with contact-center-as-a-service (CCaaS) functionality for automated customer relations support. The software uses the Google Ge...
2024-09-25 09:00
Mesa 24.3 Finishes The Years Long Effort To Phase Out The Old GLSL IR Linker
Timothy Arceri with the Valve Linux graphics team has merged the code for Mesa GLSL to convert to NIR at compile-time and in turn dropping the old GLSL IR linker with this being a multi-year effort now wrapped up for Mesa 24.3...
2024-09-25 08:59
Linux 6.12 NFS Adds LOCALIO Protocol For "Extreme" Performance Boost
The Network File System (NFS) changes have been merged for the ongoing Linux 6.12 development cycle. Notable this time with NFS is adding LOCALIO protocol extension support that can lead to fairly "extreme" performance improvements in scenarios where t...
2024-09-25 06:36
Fwupd 1.9.25 Supports Firmware Updates For A Few More Devices Under Linux
Red Hat engineer Richard Hughes this morning released Fwupd 1.9.25 as the newest feature release to this open-source solution paired with the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) for making firmware updates on Linux a breeze for an increasing number of...
2024-09-25 06:17
Mold Linker Decides To Drop DEC Alpha Support: Likely Broken & No Actual Users
The high performance open-source Mold linker has released version 2.34 with various improvements while also deciding to throw in the towel on DEC Alpha processor support...
2024-09-25 06:11
Frog-FIFO-V1 Aims To Address Mesa's "Fundamentally Broken" Wayland Code
Joshua Ashton of Valve's Linux graphics team has opened a Mesa merge request to support a proposed "frog-fifo-v1" protocol for Wayland to address the matter of "FIFO is fundamentally broken under Mesa's Wayland WSI right now."..
2024-09-25 01:00
Intel Lunar Lake Linux Benchmarks Are Still Forthcoming
While there were many Windows reviews/benchmarks out Tuesday for Intel Core Ultra 200 Series "Lunar Lake" laptops on various websites, Linux tests are still awaiting due to having resorted to pre-ordering a Lunar Lake laptop myself for delivering Linux...
2024-09-25 00:00
Ubuntu 24.10 ARM ISO Supports the ThinkPad X13s
Ubuntu 24.10 supports the Snapdragon-powered Lenovo ThinkPad X13s laptop in the official ‘generic’ ARM64 ISO — a notable change. Although it is possible to use Ubuntu 23.10 on the Thinkpad X13s it requires using of a custom ISO spun-up sp...
2024-09-24 21:29
NVIDIA Mellanox Linux Driver Spearheads Multi-Path PCI As "A Sign Of Things To Come"
While open-source enthusiasts like to criticize NVIDIA for not maintaining upstream, in-tree kernel graphics driver support (though things have been changing there), for other areas of their vast hardware portfolio they are much better upstream Linux k...
2024-09-24 16:30
NVIDIA Publishes Open-Source Linux Driver Code For GPU Virtualization "vGPU" Support
NVIDIA engineers have sent out an exciting set of Linux kernel patches for enabling NVIDIA vGPU software support for virtual GPU support among multiple virtual machines (VMs). In aiming for upstream-focused Linux support, this NVIDIA vGPU support is bu...
2024-09-24 13:32
LXQt 2.1 Promises Experimental Wayland Session, Styling Improvements
LXQt 2.1 desktop environment promises experimental Wayland session, styling improvements, and various other enhancements. Here's what to expect from the upcoming release in mid-November 2024. The post LXQt 2.1 Promises Experimental Wayland Session, Sty...
2024-09-24 12:54
Data centre networking: What is OVN?
Providing an overview of Open Virtual Network (OVN), its architecture and the main drivers behind it in the data centre networking space.
2024-09-24 11:15