Intro to VSCode.dev: The IDE in your browser
The fully realized browser-based IDE has been a long time coming. Ever since the beginning of the cloud revolution, I’ve thought a powerful and flexible remote IDE was just around the corner. I imagined a development tool that could use any virtual...
4 keys for writing cross-platform apps
These days, most every application has the potential to be a cross-platform application. That’s great for users but often difficult for developers. Targeting more than one platform opens a whole warehouse of Pandora’s boxes: how to handle paths, h...
Managing IPv4 Address Conflict Detection with NetworkManager
This article describes address conflict detection with NetworkManager, providing examples to demonstrate the new features. Detecting any potential address conflict in IP networks is paramount to avoid issues such as: The mechanisms to avoid IP address ...
The Most Popular Linux & Open-Source News Of 2024
During the course of 2024 there were 3,021 original news articles written on Phoronix around Linux and open-source topics... Fresh content each and every day, 99% of which was written by your's truly. It was quite an eventful year with a lot of excitem...
10 Cool Changes Ubuntu Received in 2024
As another year transitions from present to past, I want1 to recap the notable new features, changes, updates and innovations Ubuntu saw over the past 12 months. And there was a fair bit: we got a noble new long-term support release in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS...
The Windows CE Developer’s Kit from 1999
Rare, hard to come by, but now available on the Internet Archive: the complete book set for the Windows CE Developer’s Kit from 1999. It contains all the separate books in their full glory, so if you ever wanted to write either a Windows CE applicati...
LineageOS 22.1, based on Android 15 QPR1, released
LineageOS, the Debian of the custom Android ROM world, released version 22 – or, 22.1 to be more exact – today. On the verge of the new year, they managed to complete the rebase to Android 15, released in September, making this one of their fastest...
ZLUDA v4 Released For Initial CUDA Support On Non-NVIDIA GPUs
One of the unexpected twists this year was after several years of AMD quietly funding the ZLUDA developer for enabling unmodified CUDA applications to run on AMD GPUs at near-native performance, the ZLUDA atop AMD HIP code was made available and open-s...
