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Mesa's Lavapipe Driver Now Exposes Vulkan 1.4
In time for the upcoming release of Mesa 25.0, Mesa's Lavapipe software Vulkan API implementation is now the latest driver exposing Vulkan 1.4 support...
2025-01-07 10:17
GCC Goes For "libc Diversity" With Picolibc Support
Keith Packard is known for his X.Org/X11 work over the course of many years but alongside other software projects he also maintains Picolibc as a C library designed for embedded 32-bit and 64-bit systems. Recently he sent out a patch for adding Picolib...
2025-01-07 09:58
5 ways data teams must lead in AI-driven organizations
Generative AI has inspired a surge of interest in using data to improve the accuracy of business decisions. Business managers, data analysts, and citizen data scientists can now use prompts instead of SQL queries to ask questions, interact with large ...
2025-01-07 09:00
Agentic AI: The top challenges and how to overcome them
As generative AI continues to surge in popularity, we are already seeing it evolve into the next generation of machine-learning-driven technology: agentic AI. With agentic AI, we are not just prompting models and receiving an answer in a simple one-st...
2025-01-07 09:00
Cloud providers are running out of ‘next big things’
Recent research from Gartner and IDC paints a sobering picture: Cloud providers are experiencing diminishing returns on their innovation investments. Cloud spending continues to grow, but industry analysts note that the pace of revolutionary new servi...
2025-01-07 09:00
Budgie 10.10 Desktop Releasing This Quarter As Wayland-Only
For fans of the Budgie desktop environment that got its start out of the Solus Linux distribution, the Budgie 10.10 release expected later this quarter will be their first release that is Wayland-only...
2025-01-07 08:33
Running Generative AI Models Locally with Ollama and Open WebUI
Artificial Intelligence, particularly Generative AI, is rapidly evolving and becoming more accessible to everyday users. With large language models (LLMs) such as GPT and LLaMA making waves, the desire to run these models locally on personal hardware i...
2025-01-07 08:00
Device Memory "DMEM" Cgroup Support Ready For Linux 6.14 To Allow Limiting GPU vRAM
A pull request submitted this week to DRM-Next ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.14 cycle is introducing the notion of device memory "DMEM" to cgroup with the main intended use being to restrict device memory usage based on the cgroup hierarchy such as for...
2025-01-07 06:51
CXL Block Device "CBD" Looking Very Promising For The Linux Kernel In 2025
Originally proposed for the Linux kernel nearly one year ago was CBD as the CXL Block Device. Now up to its third revision, the Linux CBD patches are calming down and the performance gains are looking quite nice...
2025-01-07 06:38
OpenZFS 2.3-rc5 Released With Support For Cross-Compiling Kernel Modules
OpenZFS 2.3 continues working its way toward release with Monday having brought the fifth and potentially final release candidate...
2025-01-07 06:15
NVIDIA Announces The GeForce RTX 50 "Blackwell" Series
The latest from a rather active CES 2025 is NVIDIA announcing the GeForce RTX 50 "Blackwell" series line-up...
2025-01-06 22:24
Python wins Tiobe language of the year honors
To the surprise of probably no one, Python has won the Tiobe programming language of the year award for 2024, given to the language with the highest increase in ratings in Tiobe’s index of language popularity during the year. In a post accompanying ...
2025-01-06 22:04
Budgie 10.10 Desktop Will Be Wayland-Only as Work Continues on Budgie 11
Budgie 10.10 desktop environment is slated for release in Q1 2025 as a Wayland-only release defaulting to the Labwc compositor. The post Budgie 10.10 Desktop Will Be Wayland-Only as Work Continues on Budgie 11 appeared first on 9to5Linux - do not repro...
2025-01-06 22:01
Long-Time Ubuntu Contributor Steve Langasek Has Passed Away
Sad news from Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth today: longtime Ubuntu and Debian contributor Steve Langasek has passed away. In a touching post on the Ubuntu Discourse, Mark Shuttleworth shares: “Steve passed away at the dawn of 2025. His time was sh...
2025-01-06 21:29
OpoLua: a compiled-OPL interpreter for iOS written in Lua
An OPO (compiled OPL) interpreter written in Lua and Swift, based on the Psion Series 5 era format (ie ER5, prior to the Quartz 6.x changes). It lets you run Psion 5 programs written in OPL on any iOS device, subject to the limitations described below....
2025-01-06 21:24
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Dell rebrands its entire product line: XPS, Inspiron, Latitude, etc. are going away
Dell has announced it’s rebranding literally its entire product line, so mainstays like XPS, Latitude, and Inspiron are going away. They’re replacing all of these old brands with Dell, Dell Pro, and Dell Pro Max, and within each of these, there wil...
2025-01-06 20:41
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How to Install Linux Kernel 6.12 LTS on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Ubuntu 24.10
A quick tutorial on how to install the latest and greatest Linux 6.12 LTS kernel series on the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) and Ubuntu 24.10 (Oracular Oriole) distributions. The post How to Install Linux Kernel 6.12 LTS on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Ubunt...
2025-01-06 20:40
Microsoft’s tone-deaf advice to Windows 10 users: just buy a new PC, you’re all rich, right?
Over 60% of Windows users are still using Windows 10, with only about 35% or so – and falling! – of them opting to use Windows 11. As we’ve talked about many times before, this is a major issue going into 2025, since Windows 10’s support will e...
2025-01-06 20:15
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Mozilla Firefox 134 Is Out with Support for Touchpad Hold Gestures on Linux
Mozilla Firefox 134 open-source web browser is now available for download with support for touchpad hold gestures on Linux and other changes. Here's what's new! The post Mozilla Firefox 134 Is Out with Support for Touchpad Hold Gestures on Linux appear...
2025-01-06 15:12