Open Source

Welcoming New Faces to the Thunderbird Community Team
Community First Thunderbird is (and has always been) powered by the people. The project exists because of the amazing community of passionate code contributors, bug-bashers, content creators, and all-around wonderful humans who have stood behind it and...
2025-07-29 13:24
Teradata joins Snowflake, Databricks in expanding MCP ecosystem
Teradata has released its first Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, designed to enable enterprises to connect their agents to data stored within the data analytics provider’s databases, amid rising demand for agentic applications. The Teradata MCP ...
2025-07-29 13:00
AMD Streaming SDK Updated With Linux Support - But Recommending X.Org Over Wayland
AMD's GPUOpen group today released the AMD Interactive Streaking SDK 1.1 release that now delivers Linux support alongside the existing Microsoft Windows support. The AMD Interactive Streaming SDK is designed to provide pieces for developers to build-o...
2025-07-29 11:29
Farewell Benchmarks Of Intel's Clear Linux On AMD EPYC Shows More Performance Left To Tap
Last week I ran the last planned benchmarks of Intel CPU performance on Clear Linux vs. Ubuntu with Intel having ceased development of Clear Linux following the restructuring at the company. In today's article is a final look at how the AMD EPYC perfor...
2025-07-29 10:10
How to excel in multicloud: The new checklist
Several years ago, I wrote a multicloud readiness checklist and discussed the advantages of hybrid multicloud. Today, the vast majority of medium-sized businesses and large enterprises diversify with multiple hyperscalers, operate private clouds, depl...
2025-07-29 09:00
What is model context protocol? How MCP bridges AI and external services
What is the Model Context Protocol? MCP defined The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open source framework that aims to provide a standard way for AI systems, like LLMs, to interact with other tools, computing services, and sources of data. Helping ...
2025-07-29 09:00
Are cloud ops teams too reliant on AI?
The use of artificial intelligence to manage cloud operations has significantly changed how businesses design and oversee their IT systems. The consensus is that using AI for automation provides greater scalability, reliability, and consistency, as we...
2025-07-29 09:00
Linux 6.17 Lands New file_getattr & file_setattr System Calls
Along with the better handling of multi-device file-systems such as Btrfs' native RAID capabilities and now allowing more efficient writing of zeroes to modern storage devices, the number of VFS pull requests for Linux 6.17 also added some other extra ...
2025-07-29 08:15
A 10x Workaround & Less Network Egress Downtime Change Submitted For Linux 6.17
The kernel locking changes submitted today for Linux 6.17 contain a temporary change worth discussion for yielding a 10x speed-up of a particular function call and as part of that yielding less network egress downtime until a better solution is develop...
2025-07-29 06:50
TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro 15 Gen10 Laptop Announced - Powered By AMD Strix Point
For those shopping for a Linux friendly laptop powered by AMD Ryzen AI 300 series "Strix Point" with Zen 5 cores and integrated Radeon graphics plus allowing up to 128GB of RAM, the 15.3-inch InfinityBook Pro 15 Gen10 was announced this morning...
2025-07-29 06:15
Huge Speedups For CRC32C With Modern AVX-512 CPUs Merged To Linux 6.17
The CRC32C cyclic redundancy check code path within the Linux kernel for error detection is much, much faster with the in-development Linux 6.17 kernel when running on modern Intel and AMD AVX-512 processors...
2025-07-29 06:05
Linux 6.17 Will Allow Writing Zeroes More Efficiently To SSDs
In addition to the VFS changes merrged yesterday for allowing multi-device file-systems to better cope with losing a disk, another notable change as part of the VFS pull requests for Linux 6.17 allows more efficiently zeroing out a range on modern NVMe...
2025-07-29 05:48
EROFS Metadata Compression Lands Plus A ~2.5x Speedup For Reading Directories
Merged on Monday were the EROFS file-system updates for Linux 6.17. EROFS continues to be a common read-only file-system choice for some mobile/embedded devices as well as container use-cases...
2025-07-29 05:31
Firefox Add-Ons Website Revamps Listing Pages
Firefox Add-Ons are a crucial element of this open source browser, and finding good ones that work well, important. A design change aims to help. You're reading Firefox Add-Ons Website Revamps Listing Pages, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reprodu...
2025-07-29 02:25
GNU Linux-Libre 6.16 Kernel Is Now Available for Software Freedom Lovers
GNU Linux-Libre 6.16 kernel is now available for download. This release is based on Linux kernel 6.16 and it’s targeted at those who seek 100% freedom for their personal computers. The post GNU Linux-Libre 6.16 Kernel Is Now Available for Software F...
2025-07-28 22:50
Contribute to the Anaconda Installer DNF 5 Test Days, July 28 – August 1
The Anaconda team have done some great changes over the last few Fedora Linux releasese. For Fedora Linux 43, they would like your help testing their latest changes – switching Anaconda installer to DNF5 and removing DNF modularity support from Anaco...
2025-07-28 22:20
Audacious 4.5 Open-Source Audio Player Adds Playback History Plugin, Winamp 2.9 Skin
Audacious 4.5 open-source media player arrives with a new Playback History plugin, Winamp 2.9 skin, improved PipeWire output plugin, and more. Here's what's new! The post Audacious 4.5 Open-Source Audio Player Adds Playback History Plugin, Winamp 2.9 ...
2025-07-28 21:48
GitHub previews natural language app builder for AI-powered apps
GitHub Spark, an AI-powered tool for building full-stack intelligent apps, with front-end, back-end, and AI features included, using only natural language, has moved to a public preview stage. The public preview, currently open only to Copilot Pro+ us...
2025-07-28 21:15
Linux Kernel 6.16 Officially Released, This Is What’s New
Linux kernel 6.16 is now available for download with new features, enhanced hardware support through new and updated drivers, improvements to filesystems and networking, and much more. Here’s what’s new! The post Linux Kernel 6.16 Officially Relea...
2025-07-28 20:26
Linux 6.17 Will Let Multi-Device Filesystems Better Cope With Losing A Disk
The VFS changes were merged a short time ago to the in-development Linux 6.17 kernel. Among the notable changes there is a patch that will allow file-systems like Btrfs and Bcachefs to better handle losing a disk in their built-in RAID/multi-device cap...
2025-07-28 20:20