Open Source

PureDarwin intends to make Apple’s Darwin usable with a MATE desktop, future custom desktop environment, and more
Remember Darwin? It’s the core of Apple’s macOS, and the company has always – sometimes intermittently – released its source code as open source. Not much ever really happens with Darwin, and any attempts at building a usable operating system o...
2024-11-15 16:37
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Snippet: How to disable heading levels in the Editor
WordPress 6.7 allows developers to restrict the heading levels that are available to users in Core blocks. Learn how in this code snippet.
2024-11-15 15:46
Tmpfs Adding Case Insensitive Support For Wine / Steam Play & Flatpaks
In addition to the EXT4 and XFS atomic write support, another interesting pull request sent in today by Microsoft's Christian Brauner is adding case-insensitive file/folder support for the Tmpfs file-system to benefit use-cases like Wine / Steam Play c...
2024-11-15 13:44
Canonical announces the first MicroCloud LTS release 
Canonical announces the first MicroCloud LTS release. MicroCloud 2.1.0 LTS features support for single-node deployments, improved security posture, and more flexibility during the initialization process.
2024-11-15 12:00
Linux 6.13 To Expand Atomic Write Support To EXT4 & XFS
Prominent Linux developer Christian Brauner with Microsoft has begun sending out various pull requests of VFS feature changes for the imminent Linux 6.13 merge window. One of the interesting early pull requests is the VFS untorn writes series with gett...
2024-11-15 11:41
Linux 6.13 Very Exciting With New Feature Code For AMD EPYC Zen 5, Intel Panther Lake
While Linux 6.12 should be out this weekend with its many exciting features, following that will mark the start of the Linux 6.13 kernel cycle with what will be the first stable kernel release of 2025... Already there is a lot of exciting feature work ...
2024-11-15 10:49
GNOME Mutter Switches To High Priority KMS Thread To Avoid Crashes
The GNOME Mutter compositor has switched its KMS thread priority from a real-time value over to high priority to workaround a situation where the GNOME Shell / Mutter could crash or see its process killed...
2024-11-15 09:46
Linux 6.12 Preps For Release With Real-Time, Sched_Ext, Stable Xe2 & Raspberry Pi 5
The Linux 6.12 kernel is expected to be released this coming Sunday, 17 November, barring any last minute issues that would force the stable kernel to be diverted to the following Sunday. Linux 6.12 is delivering many exciting new features and beyond t...
2024-11-15 09:30
And the #1 Python IDE is . . .
This half-month in Python and elsewhere: Take a peek at seven libraries for parallel processing in Python, tour Python’s most popular ORM libraries, and check out our Flask 3.0 tutorial. Also, place your bets for which contender remains standing whe...
2024-11-15 09:00
Strategies to navigate the pitfalls of cloud costs
In my line of work, I often hear CIOs and CFOs say, “Cloud providers are bleeding us dry.” As ever-increasing cloud bills roll in, they’re demanding answers about what they’re paying for and why they’re paying so much. Public cloud providers...
2024-11-15 09:00
Google Posts Patches Further Speeding Up Linux Async Device Suspend & Resume
Google engineer Saravana Kannan has posted a set of patches to better optimize async device suspend and resume handling within the Linux kernel. With thesep atches there are "significant improvements" to async device suspend/resume with testing being d...
2024-11-15 08:25
Community Call for Involvement With Project’s Governance, Rebranding
The openSUSE Board is calling for the formation of a working group to explore topics focused on project governance, operational models and rebranding for the project. This follows a call on the openSUSE Project mailing list to formalize efforts, ideas ...
2024-11-15 08:00
AMD Releases ZenDNN 5.0 For Deep Neural Network Library Optimized For Zen 5 EPYC
AMD ZenDNN 5.0 was rolled out this morning as the newest version of this deep neural network library that is compatible with Intel's oneDNN APIs and infrastructure. ZenDNN 5.0 is now optimized for AMD Zen 5 processors such as the EPYC 9005 series. ZenD...
2024-11-15 06:50
GCC 15 Adds Option For Arm Guarded Control Stack "GCS" Code Generation
GCC 15 feature development is soon wrapping up to focus on bug fixing before releasing GCC 15.1 as stable in the early months of 2025. One of the latest features to make it in the compiler codebase is code generation support around Arm Guarded Control ...
2024-11-15 06:39
Linux Patches Add Support For New "Phone Link" Hotkey On Latest ThinkPads
Patches posted on Thursday for the Linux kernel add support for the newest hotkey being found on Lenovo ThinkPad laptops... The "Phone Link" hotkey for launching the Microsoft Phone Link software for linking your Android/iOS smartphone to your laptop. ...
2024-11-15 06:23
SDL3 Improves Steam Controller Support, Now Enabled By Default
A number of Steam Controller improvements have been merged for SDL, this widely-used hardware/software abstraction layer that is common to cross platform games. Among the latest Steam Controller improvements in SDL are enabling the support by default...
2024-11-15 06:08
Startup’s “AI” tool spams GitHub repositories with bogus commits, without consent
Most of the time, products with “AI” features just elicit sighs, especially when the product category in question really doesn’t need to have anything to do with “AI” in any way, shape, or form. More often than not, though, such features are ...
2024-11-14 22:47
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Rust Foundation moves forward on C++ and Rust interoperability
The Rust Foundation, which stewards development of the Rust language, has released a statement addressing challenges and opportunities for interoperability between Rust and C++, with the intent of making cross-language development more accessible and ...
2024-11-14 21:18
JetBrains IDEs ease debugging for Kubernetes apps
JetBrains IDEs, with new 2024.3 edition releases, now provide a logical code structure view alongside the familiar physical code structure view in the Structure tool window. The updated IDEs also streamline debugging for Kubernetes applications and pr...
2024-11-14 20:06
Khronos SYCL Being Updated To Increase Appeal For HPC & Scientific Computing
In addition to the release today of OpenMP 6.0 ahead of the SC24 supercomputing conference in Atlanta, over at The Khronos Group they have provided an update on upcoming SYCL improvements to benefit high performance computing (HPC) and scientific compu...
2024-11-14 19:00