Open Source

XFS With Linux 6.13 Sees Major Rework To Real-Time Volumes
The XFS file-system updates were merged yesterday for the ongoing Linux 6.13 merge window...
2024-11-22 06:25
Intel NPU Library v1.4 Adds Turbo Mode & Tensor Operations
Version 1.4 of the Intel NPU Acceleration Library was released today as the Python library for use on Windows and Linux for interacting with the Intel Neural Processing Unit (NPU) for AI offloading on recent Intel Core Ultra processors...
2024-11-22 06:16
New Sound Hardware Support In Linux 6.13
SUSE engineer and sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai has submitted all of the sound driver updates for the Linux 6.13 kernel...
2024-11-22 06:05
Angular 19 bolsters server-side rendering with incremental hydration
Angular 19, the latest version of Google’s TypeScript-based web development framework, has arrived. The update introduces incremental hydration and a route-level render mode, both in developer preview, and enables event replay by default. The releas...
2024-11-22 00:45
Warehouse Makes Managing Flatpak Apps on Ubuntu Easy
Flatpak is no longer just a promising format whose potential lay in the far future – it’s already the go-to way for developers to package and distribute their software on Linux, including to those of us using Ubuntu. While Ubuntu has no plans to su...
2024-11-21 23:50
Nice File Performance Optimizations Coming With Linux 6.13
In addition to the pull requests managed by Microsoft engineer Christian Brauner for VFS untorn writes for atomic writes with XFS and EXT4, Tmpfs case insensitive file/folder support, new Rust file abstractions, and the renewed multi-grain timestamps w...
2024-11-21 21:02
Red Hat Linux to be official WSL distro
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is set to become an official Linux distribution for Microsoft’s Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), a Windows feature that allows users to run Linux environments on Windows without a separate virtual machine. The move ...
2024-11-21 19:39
Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 208
Safari Technology Preview Release 208 is now available for download for macOS Sequoia and macOS Sonoma.
2024-11-21 19:00
Mesa 24.3 Open-Source Graphics Stack Adds Vulkan 1.3 Conformance for V3DV
Mesa 24.3 open-source graphics stack is now available with Vulkan 1.3 conformance for V3DV, updates for ANV, RADV, and NVK drivers, and improvements for several video games. Here’s what’s new! The post Mesa 24.3 Open-Source Graphics Stack Adds Vulk...
2024-11-21 18:06
Faster Raspberry Pi Graphics & Intel Xe3 Enablement Starts With Linux 6.13 DRM Changes
The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem updates have been submitted for the Linux 6.13 merge window in bringing many updates to the open-source kernel graphics/display drivers as well as the accelerator subsystem...
2024-11-21 16:27
WordPress 6.7.1 Maintenance Release
WordPress 6.7.1 is now available! This minor release features 16 bug fixes throughout Core and the Block Editor. WordPress 6.7.1 is a fast-follow release with a strict focus on bugs introduced in WordPress 6.7. The next major release will be version 6....
2024-11-21 14:56
ReiserFS Has Been Deleted From The Linux Kernel
Linus Torvalds just merged the change to the Linux 6.13 kernel that goes ahead and deletes the ReiserFS file-system from the source tree. Removing ReiserFS from the Linux tree lightens the kernel by 32.8k lines of code...
2024-11-21 13:15
EdgeIQ and Ubuntu Core; bringing security and scalability to device management 
Today, EdgeIQ and Canonical announced the release of the EdgeIQ Coda snap and official support of Ubuntu Core on the EdgeIQ Symphony platform. EdgeIQ Symphony helps you simplify and scale workflows for device fleet operations, data consumption and deli...
2024-11-21 12:46
Mesa 24.3 Released With Many Open-Source Vulkan Driver Improvements
Mesa 24.3 has managed to make it out today, one week ahead of the previous release plans due to the lack of any major blocker bugs appearing. Mesa 24.3 has a lot of new feature work on the contained open-source Vulkan drivers as well as evolutionary im...
2024-11-21 12:20
Linux 6.13 SoC Updates Land With Initial Support For Many Older Apple Devices
The four pull requests adding various SoC and board/platform support have now been merged for the Linux 6.13 kernel. This includes support for many older Apple iPad/iPhones, supporting another SoC with a combination of RISC-V and ARM cores, and a wide ...
2024-11-21 10:17
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS end of life: standard support is coming to an end. Here’s how to prepare. 
In 2025, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) will reach the end of its standard five-year support window. It’s time to start thinking about your options for upgrading. What is an Ubuntu long-term support (LTS) release?  Ubuntu long-term support releases ...
2024-11-21 10:08
Zrythm 1.0 Released For Powerful Open-Source Digital Audio Workstation
Zrythm 1.0 released today as a big milestone for this open-source digital audio workstation (DAW) software that caters from professional users down to beginners...
2024-11-21 10:00
Khronos Announces Slang Initiative From Open-Source NVIDIA Code
On top of an exciting Vulkan spec update out today, The Khronos Group has announced the Slang Initiative based on NVIDIA's open-source Slang compiler code...
2024-11-21 09:42