Open Source

It's been a while since we have seen anything new to report on Unvanquished as one of the few remaining and promising open-source game projects. The Unvanquished FPS/RTS game has been in development for 12 years now and built atop the Daemon engine tha...

While ARM-based SoCs with Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) aren't too common, there do exist some such as select models of the Huawei Kunpeng server SoC with SMT or there HiSilicon Kirin 9000S. As such Huawei/HiSilicon engineers have been working to ...

The OpenBSD project has released LibreSSL 4.0 as the newest version of this open-source TLS implementation that was forked from OpenSSL a decade ago...

WordPress 6.7 Beta 3 is now ready for testing! This beta version of the WordPress software is under development. Please do not install, run, or test this version of WordPress on production or mission-critical websites. Instead, it is recommended you ev...

OpenZFS 2.3-rc1 released last week with RAIDZ expansion, fast deduplication, and direct IO support among other changes for this ZFS file-system implementation for use on Linux and FreeBSD systems. OpenZFS 2.3-rc2 is out today with a few more interestin...

Chrome is partnering with Adobe and ADCOLOR to expand access to the best creative tools on the web.

When Ubuntu launched in 2004, one of our goals was to encourage adoption by the Linux community and establish Ubuntu as a reliable and user-friendly distro. Our first partner was the Debian and Linux community, partners that remain with us to this day....

Open source application packages, including those in Python and JavaScript, have a vulnerability in their entry points that could be used by threat actors to execute malicious code to steal data, plant malware, and more. This warning to developers and...

Halloween is creeping up on us, and this year, Firefox is getting into the spirit with a spooky twist: Our iconic fox has transformed into a lineup of eerie disguises. The real magic, of course, is that Firefox helps keep your online identity safe all ...

The openSUSE community is preparing for the Early Adopter Tech Summit on March 14 and 15, 2025, in Orlando, Florida. This event will take place at Loews Sapphire Falls Resort at Universal Orlando Resort and will take place as SUSECON concludes. Partner...

In addition to NVIDIA engineers being at XDC 2024 in Montreal last week for talking about their Wayland driver plans, there was also a presentation by NVIDIA's Daniel Dadap around current Linux challenges in supporting dynamic display mux hardware on m...

With the newly-launched AMD EPYC 9005 series processors continuing to use Socket SP5, there is drop-in upgrade compatibility for existing EPYC 9004 series motherboards/servers. That's assuming, of course, the vendor provides a BIOS update for enabling ...

The RISC-V Summit North America is a premier annual event that brings together the global RISC-V community – including technical, industry, domain, ecosystem and special interest groups who define the architecture’s specifications. All the experts ...

The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for October 13th, 2024, brings news about Ubuntu 24.10, KDE Plasma 6.2, Inkscape 1.4, Linux 6.10 EOL, openSUSE Leap Micro 6.0, Tails 6.8, new Linux laptop, new KDE software updates, as well as all the latest distro and soft...

Richard Biener of SUSE published a GCC 15.0.0 status report for outlining the current development state of the GCC 15 open-source compiler as it works its way toward the stable GCC 15.1 release in the early months of 2025...

The world has come to rely upon the free work of millions of skilled software developers—the maintainers of free open-source software (FOSS) projects. But the world hasn’t given them a tip. While it’s true that many open-source maintainers are p...

It’s not often someone can talk about genAI in a “pragmatic and realistic” way, but those are exactly the accolades handed out to AWS Product Management Director Massimo Re Ferrè following his recent generative AI (genAI) talk. It’s not hard ...

It’s not often someone can talk about genAI in a “pragmatic and realistic” way, but those are exactly the accolades handed out to AWS Product Management Director Massimo Re Ferrè following his recent generative AI (genAI) talk. It’s not hard ...

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, businesses face constant pressure to adapt or risk being left behind. The strategic use of IT-enabled information management capability (IMC) is no longer just an advantage — it’s a necessity. Compa...

The Wine developers at CodeWeavers who also collaborate with Valve on Steam Play's Proton have been working to enhance input device support for Proton/Wine gaming. In particular, for various gaming input devices that were never designed with Linux supp...