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JUring: Experimental IO_uring For Java With Big Performance Gains
For those looking toward better I/O performance with Java, there is JUring for making use of IO_uring and the reported performance benefits are very enticing...
2025-01-14 06:23
Intel's Open Image Denoise Begins Preparing For Panther Lake Xe3 Graphics
Open Image Denoise 2.3.2 was released by Intel on Monday. Contrary to being a point release, it's actually an exciting update...
2025-01-14 06:09
Enlightenment 0.27 Released with Bug Fixes, New Modules
Enlightenment 0.27, released this week, brings a wealth of incremental improvements to users of this unique desktop environment. Though not as well known or widely used as GNOME, Xfce, KDE Plasma, et al, Enlightenment (often abbreviated as just ‘E’...
2025-01-14 01:30
OpenZFS 2.3 Is Out with Linux 6.12 Support, RAIDZ Expansion, Fast Dedup, and More
OpenZFS 2.3 file system and volume manager is now available for download with support for Linux kernel 6.12 LTS and several new features. Here's what's new! The post OpenZFS 2.3 Is Out with Linux 6.12 Support, RAIDZ Expansion, Fast Dedup, and More appe...
2025-01-14 00:38
Let’s talk about bias
When someone says you’re biased against them because you object to their stated goal of removing you from society, they’re not actually asking for fairness — they’re demanding complicity. It’s the political equivalent of asking why the ga...
2025-01-13 23:31
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Enlightenment 0.27.0 released
Enlightenment 0.27.0 has been released, and we’ve got some highly informative release notes. This is the latest release of Enlightenment. This has a lot of fixes mostly with some new features. ↫ Carsten Haitzler That’s it. That’s the release no...
2025-01-13 23:30
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Haiku Activity & Contract Report, December 2024 (ft. Iceweasel)
This report covers hrev58369 through hrev58486. Iceweasel The biggest piece of news from last month is the arrival of “Iceweasel”, a web browser built from Mozilla Firefox source code but without any official branding or registered trademarks, in t...
2025-01-13 23:30
Can you complete the Oregon Trail if you wait at a river for 14272 years: a study
Two years ago, Twitch streamer albrot discovered a bug in the code for crossing rivers. One of the options is to “wait to see if conditions improve”; waiting a day will consume food but not recalculate any health conditions, granting your party imm...
2025-01-13 23:11
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“The people should own the town square”
Mastodon, the only remaining social network that isn’t a fascist hellhole like Twitter or Facebook, is changing its legal and operational foundation to a proper European non-profit. Simply, we are going to transfer ownership of key Mastodon ecosystem...
2025-01-13 22:54
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WordPress is in trouble
It’s hard to see how to move forward from here. I think the best bet would be for people to rally around a new community-driven infrastructure. This would likely require a fork of WordPress, though, and that’s going to be a messy. The current open ...
2025-01-13 22:05
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CISA publishes security goals for software development process, product design
The US Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published IT sector-specific goals (IT SSGs) to protect against cyber threats, including 11 software development process goals and seven product design goals. Published January 7, the I...
2025-01-13 21:01
OpenZFS 2.3 Released With RAIDZ Expansion, Fast Dedup, Direct I/O & Other Great Improvements
OpenZFS 2.3 is out as stable this evening as the latest major feature release to this open-source ZFS file-system implementation used on Linux and FreeBSD systems. OpenZFS 2.3 is heavy on new features...
2025-01-13 20:42
Fedora 42 Cleared To Ship WSL Images For Easy Windows Subsystem For Linux Use
The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has granted approval of the change proposal for shipping Fedora Linux WSL images to enhance the user experience for those wanting to run this Linux distribution within the confines of Microsoft's Wi...
2025-01-13 20:25
openSUSE Tumbleweed Now Offers Wayland Support for the LXQt Desktop
openSUSE Tumbleweed users can now install the latest LXQt desktop environment with Wayland support from the official repositories. Here's how! The post openSUSE Tumbleweed Now Offers Wayland Support for the LXQt Desktop appeared first on 9to5Linux - do...
2025-01-13 19:45
The Unique Challenges of Open Data Projects: Lessons From Overture Maps Foundation
By Marc Prioleau, Executive Director of Overture Maps Foundation 
2025-01-13 17:05
DXVK 2.5.3 Brings Improvements for Far Cry 5, Max Payne 3, and Other Games
DXVK 2.5.3 Vulkan-based implementation of D3D9, D3D10, and D3D11 for Linux / Wine is now available for download with improvements for several games. The post DXVK 2.5.3 Brings Improvements for Far Cry 5, Max Payne 3, and Other Games appeared first on 9...
2025-01-13 16:01
Thunderbird Monthly Development Digest – December 2024
Happy New Year Thunderbirders! With a productive December and a good rest now behind us, the team is ready for an amazing year. Since the last update, we’ve had some successes that have felt great. We also completed a retrospective on a major pain po...
2025-01-13 15:00
Intel Battlemage Showing Off Nice OpenCL Gains With Newest Open-Source Compute Stack
Last month with the launch of Intel Battlemage with the Arc B580 graphics card, there was fairly nice open-source GPU compute performance but with some outliers... Today it's a pleasure to report that with the newest open-source GPU compute stack as of...
2025-01-13 14:52
MX Linux 23.5 Released with Xfce 4.20 and Linux 6.12 LTS, Based on Debian 12.9
MX Linux 23.5 distribution is now available for download based on Debian GNU/Linux 12.9 “Bookworm” and powered by Linux kernel 6.12 LTS. Here’s what’s new! The post MX Linux 23.5 Released with Xfce 4.20 and Linux 6.12 LTS, Based on Debian 12.9 ...
2025-01-13 13:28