Open Source

AMD GPU Operator Announced For Automated Driver Installation & Kubernetes Support
AMD today announced two new software projects to better enhance their software support for Instinct accelerators / graphics deployments within the data center: AMD GPU Operator and AMD Metrics Exporter...
2025-01-29 20:21
Confirmed: Ubuntu Dev Discussions Moving to Matrix
Ubuntu’s key developers have agreed to switch to Matrix as the primary platform for real-time development communications involving the distro. From March, Matrix will replace IRC as the place where critical Ubuntu development conversations, requests,...
2025-01-29 16:17
Protect your VPN from TunnelVision attacks with NetworkManager
Many users trust in a variety of VPN solutions to securely protect their privacy or access to personal or company’s resources when connecting from an untrusted network. This may be an airport or cafe’s WiFi network. This article describes how to us...
2025-01-29 15:43
Open-Source RADV Radeon Driver Support For RDNA4: "Should Be Good Enough"
Lead RADV developer Samuel Pitoiset of Valve's Linux graphics driver team has provided some insight into the support expectations for this open-source Radeon Vulkan driver with the upcoming Radeon RX 9070 "RDNA4" graphics cards...
2025-01-29 15:29
X.Org / FreeDesktop.org Encounters New Cloud Crisis: Needs New Infrastructure Very Soon
About five years ago X.Org / FreeDesktop.org was experiencing a cloud hosting crisis with their cloud costs running out of control after losing free credits for Google Cloud and the continuous integration (CI) testing driving up expenses. They ended up...
2025-01-29 13:07
PyTorch 2.6 Delivers FP16 Support For x86 CPUs, Better Intel GPU Experience
PyTorch 2.6 is out today as the newest feature release to this widely-used machine learning library...
2025-01-29 12:49
Ubuntu Developers Moving From IRC To Matrix For Real-Time Communication
Following a discussion on the Ubuntu development mailing list, Ubuntu developers have decided to adopt Matrix for their official real-time communication channels while deprecating IRC chat...
2025-01-29 10:34
The biggest ideas in software and technology today
One of the coolest things about being a software developer is that you often know what’s behind the curtain. To some extent, at least. Working in tech gives you the chance to know first-hand what a neural network is, or what makes quantum computing ...
2025-01-29 09:00
4 tiny Docker images for lightweight containers
Docker images can get pretty bulky if you’re not careful. Your typical Docker image includes everything you need to run a particular piece of software (such as the application language’s runtime) and everything those things depend on. Images in th...
2025-01-29 09:00
Doing authentication right
Any substantial website is going to need to customize itself for individual users. Thus, it is going to have to authenticate those users — that is, let them log in. As a software developer, it is your job to make the whole process as smooth and sec...
2025-01-29 09:00
Tumbleweed Monthly Update - January 2025
Tumbleweed remains a strong example of a reliable rolling release as we step into 2025. This month delivered multiple snapshots and a wide range of updates! Two much anticipated major version updates arrived in snapshots this month; GIMP’s release ca...
2025-01-29 09:00
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Linux GPU Compute Performance
Last week was the review embargo lift on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card while today the review embargo lifts on the GeForce RTX 5080, both of which graphics cards are officially available in the retail channel tomorrow (30 January). Due to w...
2025-01-29 09:00
GNU C Library 2.41 Released With New C23 Features, Intel / AMD / Arm CPU Optimizations
As expected, GNU C Library "glibc" 2.41 is now available as the newest half-year feature release to this important C library for Linux systems and other environments...
2025-01-29 08:43
Bytedance Praises eBPF - Notes 10% Improvement In Network Throughput
Bytedance is praising eBPF as the in-kernel virtual machine for dynamic programs to help speed-up network packet processing, greater tracing and profiling abilities, and a wide-range of other purposes for these dynamic in-kernel programs. By tapping eB...
2025-01-29 08:30
Mesa 25.0 Sees New Driver Code To Further Enhance RadeonSI + ACO
AMD Mesa driver guru Marek Olšák has landed a new set of 48 patches into Mesa 25.0-devel Git for refactoring various AMD-related driver code to work on improving the ACO compiler support within the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver...
2025-01-29 06:54