Open Source

GCC ASCII Art Visualizations, Timely Znver5 & Other Compiler Highlights Of 2024
Both GCC and LLVM/Clang made great strides in 2024 in rounding up their latest C and C++ support, enabling new hardware targets, and a variety of other features. Plus other open-source compilers targeting different features / languages, device types, a...
2024-12-26 17:26
KDE Enjoyed A Stellar 2024 With The Debut Of The Plasma 6 Desktop
The KDE desktop progress made over the course of 2024 was particularly stand-out thanks to the Plasma 6.0 debut near the beginning of the year and then Plasma 6.1 and 6.2 further stabilizing and polishing this open-source desktop. It was a very fine ye...
2024-12-26 12:30
The Performance Benefits Of Linux 6.12 LTS Over Linux 6.6 LTS
Linux 6.12 was recently promoted to being this year's Long Term Support (LTS) kernel with it being the last major kernel release of 2024. For those enterprise Linux users, hyperscalers, and others typically jumping from one annual LTS kernel to the nex...
2024-12-26 11:30
How to split strings efficiently in C#
Optimizing the performance of your .NET applications requires efficient resource management. Memory allocations and deallocations must be performed optimally in performance-critical applications. One of the best strategies to perform resource manageme...
2024-12-26 09:00
Intel Linux Performance Optimizations & Intel's Other Open-Source News From 2024
In addition to the exciting hardware launches this year particularly around Xeon 6 Granite Rapids, Lunar Lake processors, and the new low-cost Battlemage graphics cards, what remains particularly exciting and consistent are all of Intel's great investm...
2024-12-26 08:55
Intel Linux Performance Optimizations & Intel's Other Open-Source Wins From 2024
In addition to the exciting hardware launches this year particularly around Xeon 6 Granite Rapids, Lunar Lake processors, and the new low-cost Battlemage graphics cards, what remains particularly exciting and consistent are all of Intel's great investm...
2024-12-26 08:55
Reiser5 Would Be Turning Five Years Old But Remains Dead
It was on New Year's Eve 2019 that Edward Shishkin announced the Reiser5 file-system as an evolution of the out-of-tree Reiser4 file-system code. While next week would mark five years of Reiser5, the Reiser4/Reiser5 file-system still appears effectivel...
2024-12-26 06:47
AMD Ryzen PCs May See More Power Savings Out-Of-The-Box With Linux 6.14
AMD Ryzen systems with the upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel may see increased power savings out-of-the-box due to an AMD P-State driver change queued up as part of the new power management code for this next version of the Linux kernel...
2024-12-26 06:35
Pre-Content fanotify / fanotify Hierarchical Storage Management Expected For Linux 6.14
Queued up by way of linux-fs.git's "for_next" Git branch is the fanotify HSM (Hierarchical Storage Management) implementation via the pre-content fanotify patch series...
2024-12-26 06:22
Hash-Based Integrity Checking Proposed For Linux To Help With Reproducible Builds
An interesting request for comments (RFC) patch series was posted on Christmas for introducing hash-based integrity checking to help with the reproducible builds initiative around the Linux kernel...
2024-12-26 06:00
Mixxx 2.5 Open-Source DJ App Released with Qt 6 Port, Improved Controller Support
Mixxx 2.5 open-source and free DJ software for performing live mixes is now available for download with Qt 6 port, improved controller mappings, and many new features. Here's what's new! The post Mixxx 2.5 Open-Source DJ App Released with Qt 6 Port, Im...
2024-12-25 15:05
Linux RNDIS Removal Branch Updated For Disabling Microsoft RNDIS Protocol Drivers
There's activity again around potentially disabling and then ultimately removing the RNDIS Linux kernel code for those drivers complying with the Microsoft Remote Network Driver Interface Specification (RNDIS) protocol specification. RNDIS was used ato...
2024-12-25 12:33
systemd Highlights For 2024 From Run0 To Varlink To Advancing systemd-homed
Systemd had another busy year working on many new features from run0 as a sudo alternative to making systemd-homed more robust, increasing Varlink use, systemd-boot continuing to gain more traction, and more...
2024-12-25 09:46
What is serverless? Serverless computing explained
Over the past two decades, considerable innovation has gone into making sure developers don’t have to think much about the underlying physical machine their code runs on. Serverless computing is a paradigm that takes this objective to its logical co...
2024-12-25 09:00
Python in 2024: Faster, more powerful, and more popular than ever
Over the course of 2024, Python has proven again and again why it’s one of the most popular, useful, and promising programming languages out there. The latest version of the language pushes the envelope further for speed and power, sheds many of Pyt...
2024-12-25 09:00
Intel Mesa Code Lands Big Patch Series For Treating Convergent Values As SIMD8
A patch series six months in the making and consisting of 24 patches by longtime Intel Linux graphics engineer Ian Romanick was merged on Christmas Eve for Mesa 25.0...
2024-12-25 06:46
Ruby 3.4 Programming Language Brings "it", Better Performance For YJIT
Ruby 3.4 is out today as yet another annual major feature release for this programming language known for its major updates on Christmas Day...
2024-12-25 06:09
New Intel Mesa Driver Patches Implement AV1 Decode For Vulkan Video
While there has been Vulkan Video support within Intel's open-source "ANV" driver since early 2023 and extended over time to handle H.265/HEVC decode, H.264 and H.265 encode, and more, the AV1 decode support has lagged behind until now...
2024-12-25 05:00
CachyOS Had A Really Great Year Advancing This Performance-Optimized Arch Linux Platform
The CachyOS Linux distribution has really been on fire this year delivering impressive new features and performance optimizations for this Arch Linux derived OS...
2024-12-25 03:00
4MLinux 47.0 Released with Installation Support for Virtual (KVM) Block Devices
4MLinux 47.0 Linux distribution is now available for download with support for installing on virtual KVM block devices and other changes. Here's what's new! The post 4MLinux 47.0 Released with Installation Support for Virtual (KVM) Block Devices appear...
2024-12-25 00:17