Open Source

Autodesk Contributes Mesa Vulkan WSI Support For Apple's Metal
An interesting merge request opened this week and already merged for Mesa 24.3 comes from an Autodesk engineer adding Vulkan Windowing System Integration (WSI) around Apple's Metal API for use on macOS...
2024-09-18 15:51
GNOME 47 “Denver” Desktop Environment Officially Released, Here’s What’s New
GNOME 47 desktop environment is out now with support for accent colors, as well as numerous new features and enhancements across all apps and components. The post GNOME 47 “Denver” Desktop Environment Officially Released, Here’s What&...
2024-09-18 15:08
Join Canonical in Sydney at Dell Technologies Forum
Canonical is excited to be exhibiting at the upcoming Dell Technologies Forum – Sydney on the 24th of September. This leading event brings together industry leaders and tech enthusiasts to explore the latest advancements shaping the digital lands...
2024-09-18 13:49
H.264/H.265 Vulkan Encoder Support Merged Into FFmpeg
The FFmpeg multimedia library continues to enhance its support around the Vulkan Video APIs with the latest commits seeing H.264 and H.265/HEVC Vulkan encode support merged...
2024-09-18 13:08
Oracle CloudWorld 2024: 10 key takeaways from the big annual event
As competition heats up among cloud service providers, especially on the generative AI front, Oracle is focusing its energies on providing IT infrastructure that can help developers and enterprises take advantage of generative AI in their operations. ...
2024-09-18 12:56
GNOME 47 Released With Accent Colors, Improved Apps & More
GNOME 47 is out today as the latest major update to this popular open-source desktop environment...
2024-09-18 11:35
Intel to spin off its chipmaking business
Intel’s woes are far from over. Pat Gelsinger, the company’s CEO, has announced that Intel’s chipmaking business will be spun off and turned into a separate company. A subsidiary structure will unlock important benefits. It provides o...
2024-09-18 09:52
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NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation vs. Radeon PRO Performance On Ubuntu Linux 24.04 LTS
For those wondering about the performance of the NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation workstation performance on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS with the up-to-date NVIDIA Linux graphics drivers now relying on the open-source kernel modules, this article is for you in look...
2024-09-18 09:25
Intro to Deno Fresh: A fresh take on full-stack JavaScript
After Brendan Eich’s conception of the language itself, the second most momentous event in JavaScript history (so far) was Ryan Dahl’s humble suggestion that JavaScript could run as an event loop on the server. This notion eventually became Node.j...
2024-09-18 09:00
Text in, docs out: Popular Markdown documentation tools compared
The Markdown text format makes it easy to create human-readable text that’s also readily translated into HTML. Originally developed for blogging and message boards, it’s since become widely used as a source format for documentation. This article r...
2024-09-18 09:00
How Cloud Custodian conquered cloud resource management
Kapil Thangavelu says he probably would have been a history professor if he hadn’t discovered Python in college.  His early-days exposure to Zope and Plone — a Python web application server and content management system, respectively — put him ...
2024-09-18 08:30
Can Java rival Python in AI development?
Can Java give Python a run for its money in the burgeoning, trendy AI space? While Python still gets top billing when it comes to developing for AI, Java proponents see the nearly 30-year-old Java programming language ready to take charge in the AI fi...
2024-09-18 08:15
Linux 6.12 Adds Build Options For Greater Control Over CPU Security Mitigations
Not to be confused with the proposal a few days ago by an AMD engineer for Attack Vector Controls for broader control over CPU security mitigation handling, the in-development Linux 6.12 kernel is adding new Kconfig options to allow for more build-time...
2024-09-18 08:00
Many Intel & AMD Power Management Improvements For Linux 6.12
The big set of power management updates for Linux 6.12 have landed...
2024-09-18 07:00
Intel Compute Runtime Offers "Preview" Support For Lunar Lake
Intel Compute Runtime 24.35.30872.22 released today as the newest tagged version of this open-source GPU compute stack providing oneAPI Level Zero and OpenCL support for Linux and Windows systems...
2024-09-18 06:00
Linux 6.12 Landing Integrity Policy Enforcement "IPE" Module
Merged as part of the Linux Security Modules (LSM) updates for the Linux 6.12 kernel is the new Integrity Policy Enforcement (IPE) module that has been years in the making. Integrity Policy Enforcement is an alternative to access controls...
2024-09-18 04:00
Btrfs Sees Minor Performance Optimizations With Linux 6.12
The Btrfs file-system continues marching ahead with the Linux 6.12 kernel...
2024-09-18 01:11