Open Source

AMD Zen 5 CPUs See First Microcode Updates In Linux-Firmware.Git
AMD yesterday upstreamed a batch of new CPU microcode files to linux-firmware.git as the de facto repository where component firmware/microcode is easily distributed to Linux distributions. This also marks the first time that Family 1Ah (Family 26) CPU...
2025-07-30 06:22
Linux 6.17 Now Makes Multi-Core/SMP Support Unconditional
Earlier this year Linux kernel patches were posted for making SMP support unconditional so the kernel is always built for multi-core capabilities. With uniprocessor core environments being extremely rare especially for those that would be using an up-t...
2025-07-30 06:09
Arch Linux Installer Adds Bluetooth Support & U2F Authentication
Archinstall 3.0.9 released today as the newest iteration of this text-based Arch Linux operating system installer...
2025-07-30 05:47
Linux 6.17 Improves NUMA Locality For SMP Call Rather Than Deferring To Random CPU Core
After all of these years of Linux dominating the high performance computing (HPC) space and other industries, one might think (most) all the interesting performance nuggets have been uncovered and well thought out and robust fallbacks in place across a...
2025-07-29 20:45
TypeScript 5.9 brings deferred module evaluation, expandable hovers
TypeScript 5.9, an update to Microsoft’s JavaScript superset with syntax for types, has moved to a release candidate stage. The new TypeScript release brings support for ECMAScript’s deferred module evaluation and a preview of expandable hovers fo...
2025-07-29 20:39
Longtime Linux Kernel Engineer With 14 Years At Intel Is Now At Meta
Facebook's Meta already employs an all-star team of Linux kernel engineers and it doesn't appear that they are over in recruiting top-tier Linux kernel talent. One of Intel's senior Linux software engineers is now the latest high profile kernel develop...
2025-07-29 20:20
Proton 10.0-2 Beta Delivers More Enhancements For Linux Gaming
Proton 10.0-2 beta was released today by Valve and CodeWeavers for furthering this Wine-derived software powering Steam Play for running Windows games on Linux with great success...
2025-07-29 20:06
Google patches Gemini CLI tool after prompt injection flaw uncovered
It’s barely been out for a month and already security researchers have discovered a prompt injection vulnerability in Google’s Gemini command line interface (CLI) AI agent that could be exploited to steal sensitive data such as credentials and API...
2025-07-29 19:56
You don’t need theme.json for block theme styles
When you want or need to step away from using theme.json for styling themes, this guide will walk you through best practices for using stylesheets instead.
2025-07-29 18:10
FluidCloud introduces ‘cloud cloning’ platform
Startup FluidCloud, described as a portable cloud infrastructure provider, has launched the FluidCloud Platform, a “cloud cloning” platform that lets users clone, migrate, restore, and optimize infrastructure across clouds in minutes, according to...
2025-07-29 18:05
Fish Shell Adds Modern Features to Your Ubuntu Terminal
Fish might be the Bash alternative you didn't know you needed, thanks to features like highlighting, and smarter command suggestions. Learn how to install it on Ubuntu. You're reading Fish Shell Adds Modern Features to Your Ubuntu Terminal, a blog post...
2025-07-29 18:04
Fish is Like Bash With a Brain — Here’s How to Try it on Ubuntu
Fish might be the Bash alternative you didn't know you needed, thanks to features like highlighting, and smarter command suggestions. Learn how to install it on Ubuntu. You're reading Fish is Like Bash With a Brain — Here’s How to Try it on Ubuntu,...
2025-07-29 18:04
Linux 6.17 Staging Continues Cleaning The Realtek RTL8723BS Driver
The staging area of the Linux kernel, where preliminary code initially appears to mature until being promoted out, continues seeing a lot of code churn. With Linux 6.17 the staging updates were submitted and now merged with one driver in particular sta...
2025-07-29 16:19
Snowflake brings analytics workloads into its cloud with Snowpark Connect for Apache Spark
Snowflake is preparing to run Apache Spark analytics workloads directly on its infrastructure, saving enterprises the trouble of hosting an Apache Spark instance elsewhere, and eliminating data transfer delays between it and the Snowflake Data Cloud. ...
2025-07-29 15:53
Xtraceroute Ported To GTK4 + Vulkan For Demonstrating The Open-Source Potential For AI
Christian Schaller, a Fedora developer and Director of Software Engineering at Red Hat, recently began exploring the potential of AI usage more from the open-source/Linux perspective. He was left impressed from his ability to easily generate a Python a...
2025-07-29 15:05
xf86-video-amdgpu 25.0.0 Released With Two Years Worth Of Fixes
It had been two years since the last update to the AMDGPU X.Org DDX driver but now xf86-video-amdgpu 25.0.0 is now available for those relying on this driver/hardware-specific driver for X.Org enabled Linux systems rather than the xf86-video-modesettin...
2025-07-29 14:04
Canonical MAAS awarded as best quality software by TIOBE
Canonical’s MAAS User Interface has been ranked as the top-quality software project in its category by the quarterly TIOBE Software Quality Assurance Award
2025-07-29 13:30