Open Source

LibreOffice 25.2 RC2 For Last Minute Testing This Updated Free Software Office Suite
LibreOffice 25.2 RC2 is out today with the official release of this updated open-source office suite coming in just about two weeks...
2025-01-17 08:35
Fedora 42 Boot Splash Screen Looks To Workaround GPU Drivers Taking Too Long To Load
Linux kernel graphics drivers have been growing too much in size that they are taking too long to load at boot time for quickly lighting up the display to present the nice Plymouth boot splash experience. This has led to situations of the Plymouth boot...
2025-01-17 07:02
AMDXDNA Submitted For Linux 6.14 With Kernel Accelerator/Graphics Driver Updates
Due to Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) lead maintainer David Airlie of Red Hat going on holidays the next two weeks, he's preemptively submitted the DRM/accelerator feature pull request ahead of the Linux 6.14 merge window officially opening...
2025-01-17 06:38
In Case You Wondered, RADV Doesn't Work On AMD CDNA Instinct Accelerators
Samuel Pitoiset of Valve's Linux graphics driver team landed some changes on Thursday to the open-source RADV driver within Mesa around GPU checks for the hardware supported by this popular AMD Vulkan driver on Linux systems...
2025-01-17 06:14
RadeonSI UVD/VCE Video Acceleration Improvements Merged For Mesa 25.0
At the start of the new year I talked about patches improving AMD Radeon video encode/decode for older GPUs. That work to the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver's UVD and VCE support has now been merged ahead of the Mesa 25.0 code branching coming up in just ov...
2025-01-17 05:59
Here’s how Google is using LLMs for complex internal code migrations
Code migration is a critical process in maintaining software applications. It helps improve performance and resilience, keeps systems up to date, and removes stale or irrelevant code. But it can be complex and time-consuming on a number of levels, not...
2025-01-17 05:00
Google rolls out Vertex AI RAG Engine
Google has formally introduced Vertex AI RAG Engine, a developer tool aimed at streamlining the complex process of retrieving relevant information from a knowledge base and feeding it to an LLM (large language model). Introduced in a January 15 blog p...
2025-01-17 00:55
PCI Express 7.0 Remains On Track For 2025, v0.7 Spec Published
Back in 2022 the PCI Express 7.0 specification was announced with hitting 128 GT/s and planned availability in 2025. Since then they have been iterating on the spec with PCI-SIG members and today they announced the PCI Express 7.0 v0.7 specification...
2025-01-16 20:25
Snowflake open sources SwiftKV to reduce inference workload costs
Cloud-based data warehouse company Snowflake has open-sourced a new proprietary approach — SwiftKV — designed to reduce the cost of inference workloads for enterprises running generative AI-based applications. SwiftKV was launched in December. Th...
2025-01-16 16:00
Linux Mint 22.1 Released, Here’s Everything New
A major new release of Linux Mint is now available to download. Linux Mint 22.1 is the first update in the Linux Mint 22.x series and, like that version, is built on top of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and uses Linux Kernel 6.8 (though the distro plans to release...
2025-01-16 14:04
Linux Mint 22.1 Released, This is What’s New
A major new release of Linux Mint is now available to download. Linux Mint 22.1 is the first update in the Linux Mint 22.x series and, like that version, is built on top of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and uses Linux Kernel 6.8 (though the distro plans to release...
2025-01-16 14:04
Raising the bar: Why differential privacy is at the core of Anonym’s approach
Continuing our series on Anonym’s technology, this post focuses on Anonym’s use of differential privacy. Differential privacy is a cornerstone of Anonym’s approach to building confidential and effective data solutions. In this post, we’ll expla...
2025-01-16 14:00
Linux Mint 22.1 “Xia” released!
The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 22.1 “Xia”. Linux Mint 22.1 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2029. It comes with updated software and brings refinements and many new features to make your desktop ...
2025-01-16 11:56
The Most Exciting Kernel Optimizations, New Hardware Support & Other Linux 6.13 Features
With Linus Torvalds expected to release Linux 6.13 stable this coming Sunday, 19 January, here's a reminder about the most exciting features, performance optimizations, and new hardware support arriving for this first major kernel release of 2025...
2025-01-16 10:58
Build API clients with Microsoft Kiota
Service-oriented architectures are at the heart of modern application development. By building applications out of a mix of services, we can take advantage of the current generation of platforms to build serverless, scalable, distributed applications....
2025-01-16 09:00
Gaming on Linux, How openSUSE Stacks Up for Gamers
Millions of gamers are facing a critical decision; upgrade their operating system, invest in new hardware or explore alternatives like Linux with the end of Windows 10 support in October next year. The good news is that gaming on Linux has never been b...
2025-01-16 09:00
Intel Arc B570 Graphics Performance On Linux
Last month when Intel formally introduced Battlemage graphics their initial products in the B-Series were the B570 and B580 graphics cards. The B580 went on sale in December and we've been busy testing the B580 on Linux since while today the embargo ex...
2025-01-16 09:00