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libvirt 11.0 Released For Open-Source Virtualization API
Libvirt 11.0 was christened today as the newest version of this open-source Virtualization API for managing VMs on Linux and other platforms while supporting KVM, QEMU, Xen, VMware ESX, LXC, Bhyve, and other hypervisors...
2025-01-15 06:11
LACT Linux GPU Control Panel Adds Support For Intel Graphics
In development for several years has been LACT as a Linux GPU Control Application to allow adjusting various GPU/driver settings via a convenient graphical application. AMD and NVIDIA graphics have been supported to date while now Intel graphics are al...
2025-01-15 03:00
Why you should use Docker and OCI containers
A book published in 1981, called Nailing Jelly to a Tree, describes software as “nebulous and difficult to get a firm grip on.” That was true in 1981, and it is no less true four decades later. Software, whether it is an application you bought or ...
2025-01-15 01:00
Angular team unveils strategy for 2025
The 2025 strategy document for Google’s Angular web development framework calls for enhancing the developer experience with capabilities such as zoneless change detection and signal-based forms, and making developer adoption of new features easier ...
2025-01-15 00:51
A Microsoft change to the Linux kernel caused major breakagem, but was caught in time
A change to the Linux 6.13 kernel contributed by a Microsoft engineer ended up changing Linux x86_64 code without proper authorization and in turn causing troubles for users and now set to be disabled ahead of the Linux 6.13 stable release expected nex...
2025-01-15 00:21
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A Microsoft change to the Linux kernel caused major breakage, but was caught in time
A change to the Linux 6.13 kernel contributed by a Microsoft engineer ended up changing Linux x86_64 code without proper authorization and in turn causing troubles for users and now set to be disabled ahead of the Linux 6.13 stable release expected nex...
2025-01-15 00:21
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Intel "Performance Tips" Published For Optimal Linux Graphics
Added today to the Mesa documentation for the open-source Intel OpenGL/Vulkan drivers used on Linux systems is a set of "performance tips" for ensuring an optimal Intel Linux graphics 3D accelerated experience...
2025-01-15 00:00
Google allows advertisers to fingerprint you for even better tracking
They tried to keep it from prying eyes, but several people did notice it: Google made a pretty significant policy change regarding the use of fingerprinting by advertisers. While Google did not allow advertisers to use digital fingerprinting, the compa...
2025-01-14 22:58
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Rsync 3.4 Released Due To Multiple, Significant Security Vulnerabilities
Rsync 3.4 is out today for this widely-used utility for incrementally transferring and synchronizing files between systems. Rsync is widely-used especially for backing up Linux servers in an incremental manner and unfortunately this v3.4 release isn't ...
2025-01-14 20:40
Linux Mint 22.1 “Xia” Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New
Linux Mint 22.1 distribution is now available for download with the Cinnamon 6.4 desktop environment and based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. Here's what's new! The post Linux Mint 22.1 “Xia” Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New appeared firs...
2025-01-14 20:22
FM TOWNS Technical Databook partially translated to English
In recent months, we’ve talked twice about FM Towns, Fujitsu’s PC platform aimed solely at the Japanese market. It was almost entirely only available in Japanese, so it’s difficult to explore for those of us who don’t speak Japanese. There’s ...
2025-01-14 19:42
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GNOME 48 Expands Core Apps With New Audio Player
When GNOME 48 is released in March it will debut with a brand-new audio player. Per a recent merge request, Decibels graduates from GNOME Incubator to GNOME Core Apps as part of GNOME 48, making the software something GNOME recommends downstream Linux ...
2025-01-14 19:26
Rsync remote code execution and related vulnerability fixes available
Security researchers at Google (Pedro Gallegos, Simon Scannell, and Jasiel Spelman) discovered vulnerabilities in the rsync server and rsync client. The rsync server vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-12084 and CVE-2024-12085) ultimately allow remote code execu...
2025-01-14 18:41
A Treasure Trove of Data: Propelling Open Source Investment with the 2024 Global Spotlight Insights Report
There’s nothing better than to start a new year off with a clear picture of the elements in your sphere that are working well and can be accelerated, what things need to be developed from scratch, and in which areas improvements can be made. And wha...
2025-01-14 17:26
Flatpak 1.16 Improves USB Access, Wayland Integration & Accessibility
A new stable release of Flatpak is out with a wealth of improvements in tow. Flatpak 1.16.0 is the first stable release in the new 1.16.x series, coming more than two years after the Flatpak 1.14.x cycle began and containing features, fixes, and other ...
2025-01-14 17:01
The success of Interop 2024!
With close of 2024 came the end of another year of the Interop project — the annual collaboration between browser engine teams to improve the interoperability of web technology by collectively focusing on fixing bugs and improving features in specifi...
2025-01-14 16:00
Intel Arc B580 Linux Graphics Driver Performance One Month After Launch
Yesterday I looked at how the Intel OpenCL GPU compute performance evolved for the Arc Graphics B580 in the one month since that first Battlemage graphics card premiered. There were nice Intel GPU compute optimizations merged over the past month to imp...
2025-01-14 15:47
Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 211
Safari Technology Preview Release 211 is now available for download for macOS Sequoia and macOS Sonoma.
2025-01-14 15:28