Open Source

Raspberry Pi 500 Delivers Great Performance, Convenient Upgrade To The Raspberry Pi 400
Four years ago already the Raspberry Pi 400 was announced as a Raspberry Pi keyboard computer built around the Raspberry Pi 4, passively-cooled, and all packaged up nicely in a keyboard form factor. Announced earlier this month was the Raspberry Pi 500...
2024-12-23 11:16
Linux 6.14 Looks To Land Rust PCI / Platform Device Driver Support
The patch series in the works for a while to provide the necessary kernel abstractions for the Rust programming language to actually implement real device drivers looks like it will finally premiere in the Linux 6.14 kernel cycle...
2024-12-23 09:30
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: December 22nd, 2024
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for December 22nd, 2024, brings news about Fedora Asahi Remix 41, Kali Linux 2024.4, Darktable 5.0, Grml 2024.12, PorteuX 1.8, LibreOffice 24.8.4, IPFire 2.29 Core Update 190, DXVK 2.5.2, as well as all the latest distro an...
2024-12-23 09:21
Overcoming modern observability challenges
Observability, at its core, is about collecting and analyzing data generated from applications, cloud computing resources, and edge devices to ensure software and services are run smoothly, user experiences are optimized, and resources are managed cos...
2024-12-23 09:00
How generative AI could aid Kubernetes operations
Enterprises often encounter friction using Kubernetes (K8s for short) at scale to orchestrate large swaths of containers, not to mention an escalating number of clusters. And due to its complexity, diagnosing issues within Kubernetes isn’t all that ...
2024-12-23 09:00
The exciting new world of Redis
If you’re a developer who wants the most feature-rich, high-performance version of Redis, your choice is clear: Redis and not a fork. If you have time and inclination to dabble in ideological debates about open source licensing, well, you might make...
2024-12-23 09:00
Ikey Doherty's Serpent OS Linux Distribution Goes Into Alpha
It's been a few months since hearing anything new out of Serpent OS, the original Linux distribution led by Ikey Doherty, who started Solus Linux and also was involved with Intel's Clear Linux. As a Christmas surprise, Serpent OS has now reached the al...
2024-12-23 07:13
Faster AES-GCM & AES-XTS Crypto For AMD CPUs With Linux 6.14
Eric Biggers of Google who has pursued countless CPU optimizations within the Linux kernel's crypto subsystem over the years has some noteworthy optimizations coming for AMD processors with the upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel cycle...
2024-12-23 06:46
Intel Engineers Adding GNU Debugger "GDB" Support For Intel GPUs
Intel engineers are working on contributing upstream support to the GNU Debugger (GDB) for debugging software running on Intel GPUs...
2024-12-23 06:25
EVBUG Driver Being Dropped From Linux 6.14 - Useless For Years & Known Security Threat
Linux 6.13 cleared out more than 100k lines of old and unmaintained code while that end of year code cleaning isn't stopping... With Linxu 6.14 at least another old and seemingly useless driver is being gutted from the input subsystem: evbug...
2024-12-23 06:19
AMDVLK 2024.Q4.3 Brings Vulkan 1.4 Support, More Game Tuning
AMD has squeezed in one more open-source Vulkan driver update for the year to benefit Linux gamers and others wanting to use this official AMD Vulkan Linux driver option...
2024-12-23 05:58
OpenShot Video Editor Puts Out an Effortless, Seamless, Etc Update
A new version of OpenShot video editor is out (a video editor which doesn’t have the best reputation for stability hence the nickname OpenShut). OpenShot—more accurately, ChatGPT or similar—says “OpenShot 3.3 is here to transform your editing e...
2024-12-22 23:31
OpenShot 3.3 Open-Source Video Editor Is Now Available, Here’s What’s New
OpenShot 3.3 open-source video editing software is now available for download with a Wayland-compatible color picker, new default theme, Ripple editing improvements, and more. Here's what's new! The post OpenShot 3.3 Open-Source Video Editor Is Now Ava...
2024-12-22 19:51
100+ Linux Benchmarks Of Intel Arrow Lake With New BIOS / 0x114 CPU Microcode
This past week Intel published an Intel Core Ultra 200S Series "Arrow Lake" performance status update following mixed reviews since launch around the Arrow Lake gaming performance that were inconsistent with Intel's internal findings. Among Intel's fin...
2024-12-22 17:15
Linux 6.13-rc4 Released For Kernel Testing Ahead Of The Holidays
Linus Torvalds just released the Linux 6.13-rc4 kernel as the newest weekly test release leading up to Linux 6.13 stable by mid to late January...
2024-12-22 16:30
OpenShot 3.3 Open-Source Video Editor Brings New Default Theme, Better Wayland Support
OpenShot 3.3 is out today as the newest feature release for this popular open-source video editor. This Qt-based cross-platform non-linear video editor has a new default theme and many other enhancements in time for editing any of your year-end or holi...
2024-12-22 15:01
Linux Kernel Patches To Use AMD INVLPGB Instruction Show Huge Speed-Up
Since AMD Zen 3 processors there has been the INVLPGB instruction for invalidating TLB entries for a range of pages with broadcast. As mentioned back during the AMD EPYC 7003 "Milan" launch, INVLPGB usage around this new instruction was limited... Over...
2024-12-22 08:53
Intel To Use Both Family 18 And Family 19 Identification For Upcoming CPUs
Intel processors have long identified in the Family 6 series going back to the 1990s but over the past number of months Intel engineers have been adapting the Linux kernel to prepare for a post Family 6 Intel CPU era for the model/family CPU identifica...
2024-12-22 07:14
LLVM 20 Merges An Initial Telemetry Framework
Merged this week to the LLVM Git codebase ahead of next year's LLVM 20 release is a simple telemetry framework...
2024-12-22 06:49