Tumbleweed Monthly Update - September 2024
Welcome to the monthly update for Tumbleweed for September 2024! This month, the rolling-release model has kept pace with numerous important updates and bug fixes. PostgreSQL received a major update moving to 17 and text shaping engine harfbuzz had a m...
Monthly News – September 2024
Many thanks for your donations and for your support. Visual improvements in Cinnamon Within the team Joseph continues to work his magic. Bit by bit he’s improving the look and feel of the Cinnamon desktop. The new default theme landed on the mast...
Mission Center (Linux System Monitor) Now Reports Fan Info
A major new release of Mission Center, a modern system monitor app for Linux desktops, has been released. Fans of this Rust-based GTK4/libadwaita system monitoring tool (which to address the recurring elephant in the room does indeed have a user interf...
Intel Xe2 Lunar Lake Graphics Performance Disappoints On Linux
While I have been very eager to test out the Core Ultra 200V Lunar Lake series on Linux in part due to the new Xe2 integrated graphics, after several days of pushing a new Lunar Lake laptop on Linux the results have been very disappointing. Besides nee...
Build your private 5G network with Charmed Aether SD-Core
You might recall that we recently announced the beta release of Charmed Aether SD-Core, bringing automation to the Linux Foundation’s open source 5G software-defined core (SD-Core) networking software. SD-Core is distributed by the Aether project and...
Cpufreq_ext Being Worked On For BPF-Based CPU Frequency Scaling
The newly-merged sched_ext allows for the Linux kernel scheduler to be made more extensible by allowing BPF programs to be loaded to affect the kernel's scheduling behavior. There's now a similar take on CPU frequency scaling: cpufreq_ext. There's a "r...
AMD Ryzen 9000 Series Excited Linux Users The Most In Q3
With the third quarter drawing to a close, here's a look back at the most popular Linux/open-source related content for the quarter. This quarter there's been more than 730 news articles and 50 Linux hardware reviews / featured benchmark articles all w...
How to succeed with Kubernetes
Kubernetes, the open source orchestration platform for automating the deployment and management of containerized workloads and services, continues to gain popularity. Maintained by a worldwide community of contributors, the platform’s potential bene...
Crescendo makes AI boring—and profitable
There’s money in AI, but not where you think. Sure, Nvidia and the clouds are cleaning up, but they’re primarily selling to enterprises that are mostly kicking tires, not running mission-critical AI applications. Others, like the Financial Times, ...