Open Source

Fedora Project Leader Matthew Miller: A change of hats!
Okay, wow… deep breath…. Hi everyone! I’ve been the Fedora Project Leader for more than ten years. That’s half of Fedora’s existence as a distribution project. It is my dream job, and I love it, and honestly, I could do it forever. However, I...
2024-12-10 17:00
Our favorite Chrome extensions of 2024
Here are some of our favorite Chrome extensions from this year to help you get work done and have fun.
2024-12-10 17:00
What’s New for Developers? (December 2024)
Catch up on what’s coming next for Core, Gutenberg, and WordPress Playground in the last edition of What's New for Developers for 2024
2024-12-10 15:16
What’s New for Developers? (December 2024)
Catch up on what’s coming next for Core, Gutenberg, and WordPress Playground in the last edition of What's New for Developers for 2024
2024-12-10 15:16
systemd 257 Debuts With systemd-keyutil & systemd-sbsign Tools, Other Improvements
Coincidentally coming one day after the GNU Shepherd 1.0 service manager release, the systemd 257 release is now shipping as the newest feature release for this widely-used service manager / init system to Linux systems. Systemd 257 brings a number of ...
2024-12-10 14:51
What is SBOM? Software bill of materials explained
An SBOM boils down to a detailed and accessible list of all the components that make up your software and where they come from. n this article, we’ll examine what an SBOM is, what information it must include, and the approaches that developers and ma...
2024-12-10 14:35
SiFive, ESWIN Computing and Canonical announce availability of Ubuntu on the  HiFive Premier P550
We are pleased to announce that SiFive, ESWIN Computing and Canonical are enabling Ubuntu 24.04 LTS on the HiFive Premier P550, a development platform that offers a premium RISC-V development experience, an important milestone for the RISC-V developmen...
2024-12-10 14:29
A brief history of Mac servers
Although there’s little evidence of them today, Apple made a long succession of Mac servers and servers for Macs from 1988 to 2014, and only discontinued support for the last release of macOS Server in April 2022. Its first entry into the market was ...
2024-12-10 14:12
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Meet Willow, our state-of-the-art quantum chip
Today I’m delighted to announce Willow, our latest quantum chip. Willow has state-of-the-art performance across a number of metrics, enabling two major achievements. The concensus seems to be that this is a major achievement and milestone in quantum ...
2024-12-10 13:53
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Ptyxis Becomes Ubuntu's Recommended Replacement To GNOME Terminal
While the Ubuntu desktop has been offered the newer GNOME Console as an alternative to GNOME Terminal, there's been a recent fondness around Ptyxis and apparently is becoming the recommended replacement to GNOME Terminal for the Ubuntu camp...
2024-12-10 13:23
Thunderbird for Android November 2024 Progress Report
It’s been a while since our last update in August, and we’re glad to be back to share what’s been happening. Over the past few months, we’ve been fully focused on the Thunderbird for Android release, and now it’s time to catch you up. In this...
2024-12-10 11:55
New Linux Patch Establishes "CONFIG_X86_64_NATIVE" For -march=native Kernel Builds
Last week I wrote about Linux patches cleaning up x86 32-bit kernel builds for x86_64 CPUs. The new iteration of those patches were sent out today, including the addition of a patch adding the CONFIG_X86_64_NATIVE Kconfig tunable for enabling "-march=n...
2024-12-10 11:00
Perf Support For 2,048 CPU Cores Is Becoming Not Enough - Patches Bump Kernel Limit
Currently the Linux kernel's "perf" performance monitoring subsystem has a limit on 2,048 CPU cores for its CPU map that is set by the MAX_NR_CPUS value. But that's becoming not enough in today's high core count era that patches are looking to raise it...
2024-12-10 10:41
Spark or Hadoop: the best choice for big data teams?
I always find the Olympics to be an unusual experience. I’m hardly an athletics fanatic, yet I can’t help but get swept up in the spirit of the competition. When the Olympics took place in Paris last summer, I suddenly began rooting for my country ...
2024-12-10 10:26
Databricks unveils synthetic data generation API to help evaluate agents faster
As enterprise demand for building multi-agent systems continues to grow, data infrastructure services providing firm, Databricks, is updating its Mosaic AI Agent Evaluation module with a new synthetic data generation API that will help enterprises eva...
2024-12-10 10:15