Open Source

Intel & Canonical Collaborate On Graphics Preview Stack For Ubuntu 24.10
Intel and Canonical have been collaborating to provide an early "Graphics Preview" stack for Ubuntu 24.10 to provide better support for the new Intel Core Ultra Series 2 "Lunar Lake" and Intel Arc B-Series "Battlemage" graphics...
2024-12-19 14:33
LibreOffice 24.8.4 Office Suite Is Now Available for Download with 55 Bug Fixes
LibreOffice 24.8.4 is now available for download as the second maintenance update in the LibreOffice 24.8 series with 55 bug fixes. All LibreOffice 24.8 office suite users must update to this version as soon as possible. The post LibreOffice 24.8.4 Off...
2024-12-19 14:15
Leap 15.5 Nears End of Life
The release of Leap 15.6 on June 12 set in motion the End of Life for maintenance and security for Leap 15.5, which will happen at the end of December. Users should upgrade to openSUSE Leap 15.6 to continue to receive security and maintenance updates. ...
2024-12-19 13:00
Life at Canonical: Victoria Antipova’s perspective as a new joiner in Product Marketing
Life at Canonical: Victoria Antipova’s perspective as a new joiner in Product Marketing
2024-12-19 12:34
Linux 6.13 Is A Great Holiday Gift For AMD Systems With Many New Features
Of the many new features in Linux 6.13 for that kernel debuting by late January, AMD customers once again have a lot to look forward to from new Zen 5 features being enabled to additional performance optimizations. Here is a look at some of the most ex...
2024-12-19 12:18
Smart policing revolution: How Kazakhstan is setting a global benchmark
In the era of digital transformation, public safety stands at a critical crossroads. Law enforcement agencies globally are under increasing scrutiny to enhance transparency, efficiency, and trust within their communities. Against this backdrop, Kazakh...
2024-12-19 11:19
Intel Core Ultra 9 285K "Arrow Lake" Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu Linux Performance
One of the areas for benchmarking exploration that I had been meaning to dive into since the launch of the Intel Arrow Lake processors back in October was checking out the Microsoft Windows 11 vs. Linux performance for the new Core Ultra 9 285K flagshi...
2024-12-19 10:30
Create searchable Bluesky bookmarks with R
The Bluesky social network is seeping into the mainstream, thanks in part to people unhappy with changes at X (formerly Twitter). “It’s not some untouched paradise, but it’s got a spark of something refreshing,” Jan Beger, global head of AI Ad...
2024-12-19 09:00
FAQ: Getting started with Bluesky
What is Bluesky? Bluesky is a “microblogging” social media network similar to X (formerly Twitter), where people can publish posts with a maximum of 300 characters, as well as follow others, create lists, like posts, and so on. “Similar to Twitt...
2024-12-19 09:00
Enterprise-grade caching with Azure Managed Redis
Microsoft has made a lot of big bets in its preferred cloud-native infrastructure. You only need to look at .NET Aspire and Radius to see how the company thinks you should be designing and building code: a growing cloud-native stack that builds on Kub...
2024-12-19 09:00
Go 1.24 brings full support for generic type aliases
Go 1.24, a planned update to Google‘s popular open-source programming language, has reached the release candidate stage. Expected to arrive in February 2025, the release brings full support for generic type aliases, along with the ability to track e...
2024-12-19 09:00
Getting started with Azure Managed Redis
Microsoft has made a lot of big bets in its preferred cloud-native infrastructure. You only need to look at .NET Aspire and Radius to see how the company thinks you should be designing and building code: a growing cloud-native stack that builds on Kub...
2024-12-19 09:00
OpenVINO 2024.6 Released With Intel Arc B-Series Support, NPU Optimizations
Intel's OpenVINO open-source AI toolkit is out with a new feature release today for closing out the year. The OpenVINO 2024.6 release brings initial support for the Arc B-Series "Battlemage" graphics cards as well as further optimizing the Intel NPU su...
2024-12-19 08:55
Fish Shell 4.0 Beta Released With C++ Code Ported To Rust
The Fish Shell as the interactive, user-friendly command line shell debuted its 4.0 beta release ahead of the holidays. Notably in this release is porting the C++ code over to the Rust programming language...
2024-12-19 08:48
AlmaLinux 10 Beta Running Great With Nice Performance As Free/Community Alternative To RHEL 10
Along with the recent release of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 beta, the AlmaLinux crew released their AlmaLinux 10 beta as the latest wares for this popular community/free alternative to upstream RHEL. I've been running some early benchmarks and tes...
2024-12-19 06:50
AMD Updates Linux Patches For L3 Smart Data Cache Injection SDCIAE Handling
Back in August AMD posted Linux patches for L3 Smart Data Cache Injection Allocation Enforcement (SDCIAE). That L3 Smart Data Cache Injection (SDCI) work was since announced as part of the AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" processors. A second iteration of those S...
2024-12-19 06:29
Linux 6.14 To Support Realtek RTL8125D Rev B 2.5G Ethernet ASIC
The Linux kernel already supports the Realtek RTL8125D 2.5G Ethernet controller but additional handling is required to enable the revision B variant of this chipset, which will be coming in the next kernel cycle...
2024-12-19 06:18