Open Source

elementary OS 8 Released, Here’s What’s New
Indie distro fans rejoice: elementary OS 8.0 is now available to download. Built on the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS base and powered by the Linux 6.8 kernel, elementary OS 8 brings a swathe of improvement to both the Pantheon desktop environment, its core apps, a...
2024-11-26 18:16
elementary OS 8 Released with New Dock, Quick Settings + More
Indie distro fans rejoice: elementary OS 8.0 is now available to download. Built on the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS base and powered by the Linux 6.8 kernel, elementary OS 8 brings a swathe of improvement to both the Pantheon desktop environment, its core apps, a...
2024-11-26 18:16
elementary OS 8 “Circe” Officially Released, Based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
elementary OS 8 (Circe) distribution is now available for download based on Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS and powered by Linux kernel 6.8. Here's what's new! The post elementary OS 8 “Circe” Officially Released, Based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS appeared first on 9to...
2024-11-26 18:00
ASF Plus One Newsletter: November 2024
The post ASF Plus One Newsletter: November 2024 appeared first on The Apache Software Foundation Blog.
2024-11-26 18:00
FSF "Excited" For 802.11n WiFi USB Adapter Costing €50 In 2024 Holiday Shopping Guide
In prior years the Free Software Foundation (FSF) has published an Ethical Tech Giving Guide for holiday shopping where they recommend products like old AMD Opteron motherboards and USB to parallel printer cables that "respect your freedoms" and meet t...
2024-11-26 17:00
Anthropic introduces the Model Context Protocol
Anthropic today released a new open source protocol to let all AI systems, not just its own, connect with data sources via a standard interface. Model Context Protocol (MCP), the company said in its announcement, lets developers build secure two-way c...
2024-11-26 16:57
AMD GFX9.4.4 CDNA Firmware Published, More GFX950 Changes Point To Being MI350
There are some new open-source/Linux details to note when it comes to the AMD accelerators in the Instinct "CDNA" land...
2024-11-26 16:26
Dynamic DNS Resolution Open Sourced in NGINX
Enhance your NGINX setup with our DNS service discovery feature, now open sourced for dynamic DNS resolution.
2024-11-26 16:06
Firefox 134 Enters Beta, Promises Support for Touchpad Hold Gestures on Linux
Firefox 134 open-source web browser is now available for public beta testing with support for touchpad hold gestures on Linux and other changes. Here’s what to expect. The post Firefox 134 Enters Beta, Promises Support for Touchpad Hold Gestures on L...
2024-11-26 14:32
F2FS Brings Interesting "Device Aliasing" Feature To Linux 6.13 To Carve Out Partition
The Flash Friendly File-System (F2FS) updates were sent out on Monday for Linux 6.13 and include one very interesting new feature for this file-system: device aliasing as a means of being able to temporarily carve out a portion of the partition for oth...
2024-11-26 14:17
Granular Power Savings Patches Posted For Common "uvcvideo" Linux Webcam Driver
Google engineer Ricardo Ribalda has proposed a set of patches for the common "uvcvideo" kernel driver that supports UVC-compliant web cameras and the like to provide granular power saving support...
2024-11-26 12:24
KDE Plasma 6.2.4 Re-Enables HDR Mode for Users on NVIDIA 565 and Linux 6.11
KDE Plasma 6.2.4 is now available as the fourth maintenance update to the latest KDE Plasma 6.2 desktop environment series with more improvements and bug fixes. Here's what's changed! The post KDE Plasma 6.2.4 Re-Enables HDR Mode for Users on NVIDIA 56...
2024-11-26 11:59
Firefox 133 Released with Faster Access to Tabs on Other Devices
Mozilla Firefox 133 was released today, furnished with some new features and UI refinements long-time users are sure to appreciate. In the 4 weeks since Firefox 132 brought us certificate compression, tweaked the way the ‘copy link without site trac...
2024-11-26 11:00
Intel Xe2 Lunar Lake Graphics Compute / OpenCL Performance Looking Great
Now that Linux 6.12 has a fix for the Lunar Lake performance with the ASUS Zenbook I have been using for my Core Ultra 200V series Linux testing as well as there recently being an updated Intel Compute Runtime with Lunar Lake fixes, I have been working...
2024-11-26 10:39
Is a real-time OS right for your business?
With automation spanning virtually every sector of society, real-time capable operating systems (OS) are becoming critical across industries, from automotive and telecommunications, to industrial manufacturing. A real-time operating system (RTOS)  ens...
2024-11-26 10:21
Transition from Windows to Linux: A Step-by-Step Guide
With Microsoft ending support for Windows 10 in October 2025, millions of users are looking for alternatives that avoid costly hardware upgrades, additional upgrade costs to Windows 11 depending on the country a person is in or to mitigate security ris...
2024-11-26 10:00
Build generative AI pipelines without the infrastructure headache
While creating a basic ChatGPT prototype might take a weekend, developing production-ready generative AI systems that securely handle enterprise data presents significantly greater engineering challenges. Development teams typically invest weeks addre...
2024-11-26 09:00
Are cloud units a good measure of cloud value?
If we’ve learned anything from the constant evolution of cloud computing and its integration into enterprise operations, it’s that generic metrics are rarely good at measuring success. Don’t get me wrong, cloud units are better than no metrics. ...
2024-11-26 09:00
Ubuntu 25.04 Begins Preparations For GIMP 3.0
With GIMP 3.0-RC1 out for testing since earlier this month, the hope is that GIMP 3.0 stable will in fact ship in time for the release of Ubuntu 25.04 next April. The current GIMP 3.0 release candidate is working its way to Debian Unstable and in turn ...
2024-11-26 09:00