Open Source

Oracle refuses to yield JavaScript trademark, Deno Land says
JavaScript runtime provider Deno Land’s efforts to get Oracle to yield the trademark for JavaScript have hit a snag, with Oracle refusing to voluntarily withdraw the trademark, Deno Land said. A Deno Land post on X on January 7 provided an update ab...
2025-01-10 21:59
Intel Open-Source Vulkan Driver Merges Initial AV1 Decode Support
Merged this Friday night for Mesa 25.0 is initial Vulkan Video AV1 decode support for Intel's open-source "ANV" Vulkan Linux driver...
2025-01-10 20:37
Wine 10.0-rc5 Brings Another 31 Bug Fixes
Wine 10.0 is working its way toward a stable release likely in the next week or two, but today there is Wine 10.0-rc5 with the latest round of fixes...
2025-01-10 16:53
What’s new for developers? (January 2025)
Welcome to the new year in this post that covers all of the developer highlights from the end of 2024.
2025-01-10 16:47
Linux Foundation & Google Form New Group to Manage Chromium
Google is teaming up with the Linux Foundation, Microsoft, Meta, and Opera to form a new Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers group. Members of the group, managed by the Linux Foundation, will work together, pool resources, talent, time, and expertise...
2025-01-10 16:45
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Now Works on the HiFive Premier P550 RISC-V Development Board
Canonical partners with SiFive and ESWIN Computing to enable Ubuntu 24.04 LTS on the HiFive Premier P550 RISC-V development board. The post Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Now Works on the HiFive Premier P550 RISC-V Development Board appeared first on 9to5Linux - do ...
2025-01-10 14:35
Experimental Linux Address Space Isolation "ASI" v2 Patches: I/O Throughput Lower By 70%
Google engineers and others have been talking about Address Space Isolation "ASI" for the Linux kernel to better deal with speculative execution attacks and other CPU vulnerabilities. Last summer there were some new "request for comments" patches worki...
2025-01-10 14:17
Git 2.48 Released With Initial Support For The Meson Build System
Git 2.48 is out today as the newest feature update to this leading distributed version control system...
2025-01-10 13:40
More Intel Xeon Clearwater Forest Enablement Merged For Linux 6.13
Squeezing into the mainline Linux 6.13 kernel code today as part of the latest batch of "fixes" are two additional enablement bits for the upcoming high-density Intel Xeon Clearwater Forest server processors...
2025-01-10 12:02
Lenovo Discovers Situation Of Linux Dropping PCIe Gen 5 NVMe SSDs To Gen 1 Speeds
A change made to the Linux kernel in June 2023 has led to a situation where PCIe Gen5 NVMe solid state drives could potentially drop down to Gen1 speeds... Lenovo engineers spotted this issue and bisected the problem along with coming up with a solutio...
2025-01-10 10:33
Servo Browser Engine Adds Dark Mode, Some XPath Support
The Servo open-source web browser layout engine project has published their newest monthly recap to highlight the progress they made during December 2024. They ended the year on a high note with getting dark mode support working and other features wire...
2025-01-10 09:50
VKD3D-Proton 2.14.1 Brings A Few Fixes For Direct3D 12 On Vulkan
Hans-Kristian Arntzen with Valve has just released VKD3D-Proton 2.14.1 as this Direct3D 12 over Vulkan implementation...
2025-01-10 09:02
Why JavaScript’s still on top in 2025
Welcome to a new year of programming and the brand new monthly list of JavaScript stories just for developers! Among the highlights of this new year: Svelte and SvelteKit have seen a slew of incremental improvements, Astro.js 5.0 just hit, and the Nex...
2025-01-10 09:00
Ephemeral environments in cloud-native development
An emerging trend in cloud computing is using ephemeral environments for development and testing. Ephemeral environments are temporary, isolated spaces created for specific projects. They allow developers to swiftly spin up an environment, conduct tes...
2025-01-10 09:00
Ubuntu Considers Taking It Easier On Software Updates Over Weekends
Ubuntu developers are looking at extending their policy of not releasing stable release updates (SRUs) around the weekend as well as not phasing them up to 100% during those weekend times either...
2025-01-10 07:03
12 Years After Haswell, Intel Open-Source Graphics Developers Still Make Occasional Fix
The Intel Haswell CPUs were originally introduced back in 2013 and great for the time. Under Microsoft Windows the driver support has long been obsolete but under Linux with Intel's open-source driver support there is still even the occasional fix all ...
2025-01-10 06:40
Blumenkrantz Boosts Zink Performance By 150% For Everspace, Possibly Helping Other Games
Mike Blumenkrantz of Valve's Linux graphics driver team who is known for his work on the Zink generic OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver implementation has made another mighty round of improvements for helping the gaming performance...
2025-01-10 06:25
Calibre 7.24 Open-Source Ebook Manager Released with New Features and Bug Fixes
Calibre 7.24 open-source suite of e-book software is now available for download with new features and bug fixes. Here's what's new! The post Calibre 7.24 Open-Source Ebook Manager Released with New Features and Bug Fixes appeared first on 9to5Linux - d...
2025-01-10 05:04
Rust-Based COSMIC Desktop Gets 5th Alpha Release with COSMIC Media Player
The 5th alpha version of the Rust-based COSMIC desktop environment from System76 is now available for public testing with various changes. Here's what's new! The post Rust-Based COSMIC Desktop Gets 5th Alpha Release with COSMIC Media Player appeared fi...
2025-01-10 02:52