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Flock to Fedora 2025: Prague, June 5th – 8th!
Get ready to pack your bags and join us for Flock to Fedora 2025, coming to the beautiful city of Prague, Czechia, from June 5th to 8th, 2025! We are heading to Prague in June 2025. The call for proposals opens today, and read on for more details about...
2025-01-23 19:40
Vivaldi 7.1 Delivers Speed Dial Buffs, New Search Engine
Vivaldi web browser has just released its first major update of the year – a corker it is, too! Fans of the Chromium-based browser—though Vivaldi Technologies doesn’t appear to be part of the new Linux Foundation-led Supporters of Chromium Browse...
2025-01-23 19:19
The OpenJDK’s plans for Java in 2025
Java enhancement plans for 2025 range from improving performance in the foreign function and memory (FFM) API, to working on ahead-of-time (AOT) code compilation, to finalizing the structured concurrency API, according to a recently published presenta...
2025-01-23 17:59
GNOME 46.8 Release Speeds Up Thumbnail Loading in the Nautilus File Manager
GNOME 46.8 is now available as the eighth maintenance update to the GNOME 46 desktop environment series with more bug fixes, updated translations, and small improvements. The post GNOME 46.8 Release Speeds Up Thumbnail Loading in the Nautilus File Mana...
2025-01-23 16:45
x86 32-bit Operating Systems Aren't Dead Yet: New Linux Patches Improve 32-bit PAE
The Linux x86 32-bit PAE kernel support for Physical Address Extensions allows addressing more than 4GB of memory for those still running 32-bit processors or otherwise opting to still run a 32-bit OS. While the Linux x86 32-bit specific code rarely se...
2025-01-23 15:18
Submit a Presentation for the openSUSE Conference
The call for papers for openSUSE Conference 2025 is open. The conference is scheduled to take place June 26 to 28 in Nuremberg, Germany. Until April 30, people can submit proposals for a talk or workshop to share insights and their expertise. People ha...
2025-01-23 14:00
Google BigQuery gets metadata service with Iceberg support
Google Cloud is adding a new metadata service that is compatible with Apache Iceberg to its managed data analytics service BigQuery in order to help enterprises cut down complexities around metadata management. Named BigQuery metastore, the fully mana...
2025-01-23 13:09
KDE Plasma 6.3 Beta 2 Improves systemd-homed Support
Earlier this month was the release of the KDE Plasma 6.3 beta while today a second beta was issued...
2025-01-23 12:49
Linux 6.14 Power Management: "Dominated By AMD P-State Driver Changes"
All of the power management feature updates for the in-development Linux 6.14 kernel were sent out earlier this week and subsequently merged. As we've been seeing with recent Linux kernel releases, AMD continues investing a lot into their AMD P-State C...
2025-01-23 12:31
Redis 8.0-M3 Brings Async I/O Threading, 12x Speed-Up With New AVX2 Code Path
For those making use of the source-available Redis in-memory key-value database, the upcoming Redis 8.0 will offer better performance on today's high core count systems and servers...
2025-01-23 11:05
Debian 15 Is Codenamed "Duke"
With Debian 13 freeze dates announced and that Debian 13.0 "Trixie" release working its way toward release likely around August, it's then to be followed by beginning development on Debian 14 codenamed as "Forky". Yesterday when announcing the Debian T...
2025-01-23 10:04
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Linux Benchmarks: Stay Tuned
Following the unboxing embargo earlier this week for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090, today the review embargo lifts for the GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition...
2025-01-23 09:00
How to use resource-based authorization in ASP.NET Core
When implementing authorization in ASP.NET Core, we can adopt a declarative or an imperative approach. In a declarative authorization, you would typically use the [Authorize] attribute to restrict access to the resource. However, there are certain use...
2025-01-23 09:00
Stratoshark analyzes cloud applications at a syscall level
Securing cloud applications is both easy and hard. Easy because hyperscale providers such as Microsoft Azure are focused on ensuring that tenant compute environments are locked down and isolated from each other. Hard because those same provider polici...
2025-01-23 09:00
Faster AES-GCM & AES-XTS Crypto Performance For AMD CPUs With Linux 6.14
The crypto subsystem updates were sent out today for the Linux 6.14 kernel. Notable this time are new x86_64-specific optimizations for the AES-GCM and AES-XTS algorithms. Benefiting the most from these new x86_64 optimizations are recent AMD processor...
2025-01-23 08:37
Red Hat Preparing Tuned 2.25 Daemon For Linux Monitoring & Adaptive Performance Tuning
The Tuned software from Red Hat is a daemon for Linux monitoring and adaptive performance tuning as an alternative to the likes of power-profiles-daemon. Tuned ships with various profiles and allows different features for tuning the Linux system perfor...
2025-01-23 06:51