Open Source

Patches Proposed To Begin Plumbing 32-bit LoongArch CPU Support For The Linux Kernel
Merged back in 2022 for the Linux 5.19 kernel was the LoongArch port for that Chinese processor architecture derived from MIPS and inspired in part by RISC-V. Over the past two and a half years the LoongArch Linux kernel port has continued to mature wh...
2025-01-02 15:32
32 Patches Merged For More Unification Between RadeonSI OpenGL & RADV Vulkan Drivers
Well known AMD open-source Linux graphics developer Marek Olšák landed some nice Mesa 25.0 optimizations for Christmas and now in kicking off the new year he's managed another interesting set of patches for the AMD Radeon Linux graphics stack...
2025-01-02 15:14
Download the Hot IT Certifications Enterprise Spotlight
Download the January 2025 issue of the Enterprise Spotlight from the editors of CIO, Computerworld, CSO, InfoWorld, and Network World.
2025-01-02 15:00
Linux Patches Updated For Experimental Arm Morello That Combines Arm + CHERIA ISA
Arm today sent out their third iteration of their Linux kernel patches for adding Arm Morello platform support to the kernel: an experimental extension of Armv8.2-A paired with the CHERI v7 ISA...
2025-01-02 11:19
Linux Patches Updated For Experimental Arm Morello That Combines Arm + CHERI ISA
Arm today sent out their third iteration of their Linux kernel patches for adding Arm Morello platform support to the kernel: an experimental extension of Armv8.2-A paired with the CHERI v7 ISA...
2025-01-02 11:19
Linux Prepares AMD "SRSO_USER_KERNEL_NO" Support For Zen 5 CPUs
Queued up this week via the tip/tip.git's "x86/bugs" Git branch for the Linux kernel is AMD "SRSO_USER_KERNEL_NO" support as a new SRSO/Inception mitigation handling seemingly for Zen 5 processors and beyond...
2025-01-02 10:38
Fine-tuning Azure OpenAI models in Azure AI Foundry
Large language models (LLMs) like the OpenAI models used by Azure are general-purpose tools for building many different types of generative AI-powered applications, from chatbots to agent-powered workflows. Much of the work needed to get the most out ...
2025-01-02 09:00
Fedora Stakeholders Talk Of Forking Intel's Compute Runtime To Maintain Older Hardware
With the Intel Graphics Compiler having dropped Ice Lake and older support and in turn the Intel Compute Runtime dropping Ice Lake and older to just focus on newer Intel graphics hardware support, Fedora packagers and other stakeholders have been grapp...
2025-01-02 08:45
AMD Zen 5 Captivated Linux Reader Interest In 2024
With 2024 in the books, here is a look back at the most popular Linux hardware reviews and benchmark articles for 2024. In addition to the three thousand original Linux/open-source news articles last year, there was 191 Linux hardware reviews / multi-p...
2025-01-02 08:00
Lenovo Gaming Series WMI Drivers Updated For Enabling Extra Functionality Under Linux
Last month I wrote about a Lenovo Legion Linux driver being posted for enabling more power/performance settings under Linux. Following a significant rework, a second iteration of those patches have now been posted with just being referred to as the Len...
2025-01-02 06:48
ACD Power/Performance Feature Being Worked On For The GPU Within The Snapdragon X1
For the Qualcomm Adreno X1-85 GPU found within the Snapdragon X1 series of laptop chips, an Adaptive Clock Distribution "ACD" feature is currently being wired up to the open-source MSM kernel driver to help with power and performance...
2025-01-02 06:38
Linux "steelseries" Driver Being Extended For The SteelSeries Arctis 9 Wireless Headset
Within the mainline Linux kernel has been the open-source SteelSeries HID driver while newly posted patches are tacking on support for the SteelSeries Arctis 9 wireless gaming headset...
2025-01-02 06:27
What Do You Want to See From Ubuntu in 2025?
A new year has started, and who knows what kind of innovations and improvements it holds for for Ubuntu, which remains the world’s most used desktop Linux operating system. We get 2 new releases of Ubuntu each year, one in April and one in October. P...
2025-01-01 21:03
Steam On Linux Ends 2024 With A Nice Boost To Its Marketshare, AMD Linux CPU Use At 74%
Valve has just published the Steam Survey results for December 2024 and they reflect a nice upward trend for the Linux gaming statistics and a high point in recent times...
2025-01-01 20:41
Serpent OS To Explore Offline Rollbacks & Tools As A Service
Following the recent Serpent OS alpha builds for this original Linux distribution led by well known developer Ikey Doherty, the project has now outlined both some of their short term and longer term plans for this from-scratch Linux platform...
2025-01-01 20:26
Fedora-Based Nobara 41 Gaming Distro Switches to Open-Source NVIDIA Driver
Nobara 41 gaming distribution is now available for download based on Fedora Linux 41 and featuring the KDE Plasma 6.2 desktop environment. Here's what's new! The post Fedora-Based Nobara 41 Gaming Distro Switches to Open-Source NVIDIA Driver appeared f...
2025-01-01 16:56
PeaZip 10.2 Open-Source Archive Manager Released with Qt 6 Package for Linux
PeaZip 10.2 open-source archive manager is now available for download with GUI support for Brotli and Zstandard maximum compression settings and other changes. Here's what's new! The post PeaZip 10.2 Open-Source Archive Manager Released with Qt 6 Packa...
2025-01-01 13:13
X.Org Server Development Hit A Decade High For The Number Of Commits In 2024
To much surprise, the X.Org Server Git tree saw the most commits in 2024 going all the way back to 2014... While there were many more commits than in years prior, it's not a sign of resurgence for the X.Org Server with Wayland continuing to become the ...
2025-01-01 11:53
Intro to VSCode.dev: The IDE in your browser
The fully realized browser-based IDE has been a long time coming. Ever since the beginning of the cloud revolution, I’ve thought a powerful and flexible remote IDE was just around the corner. I imagined a development tool that could use any virtual...
2025-01-01 09:00
4 keys for writing cross-platform apps
These days, most every application has the potential to be a cross-platform application. That’s great for users but often difficult for developers. Targeting more than one platform opens a whole warehouse of Pandora’s boxes: how to handle paths, h...
2025-01-01 09:00