Open Source

Kong API platform adds service catalog
API infrastructure platform provider Kong has updated its Kong Konnect API platform with the Konnect Service Catalog, a de facto system of record that enables greater visibility and stronger management of all APIs in a company’s IT infrastructure, t...
2024-09-12 17:00
New safety features in Chrome for more protection
Updates include improved Safety Check, an easier way to opt out of website notifications and the option to grant one-time website permissions.
2024-09-12 16:00
Fedora 42 On 64-bit ARM Might Make It Seamless To Run x86/x86_64 Programs
As one of the early feature proposals for Fedora 42, there is a proposal being considered to make for a nice out-of-the-box experience running x86/x86_64 game/application binaries atop Fedora 42 AArch64 hosts...
2024-09-12 16:00
AMD Publishes GC 11.5.2 Firmware For Upcoming RDNA3.5 Hardware
AMD today committed their GC 11.5.2 firmware to the upstream linux-firmware.git for the necessary firmware binary blobs needed for hardware initialization by their open-source AMDGPU kernel graphics driver with this newer RDNA3.5 variant...
2024-09-12 14:36
Fedora 42 Will Try Again To Use The New Anaconda Installer's Web UI
With Fedora 41 working its way to release toward the end of October, some early feature/change proposals for Fedora 42 are being filed for what will be the Fedora Linux release out next spring...
2024-09-12 14:15
KDE Plasma Wayland Protocols 1.14 Brings New Capabilities
Plasma Wayland Protocols 1.14 is out today for providing the set of Wayland protocol XML files for currently non-standard protocols that are relied upon by the Plasma desktop with KWin compositor...
2024-09-12 13:42
KDE Plasma 6.2 Is Now Available for Public Beta Testing, Here’s What’s New
KDE Plasma 6.2 desktop environment is now availabe for public beta testing with many new features and improvements. Here's what to expect in the final release! The post KDE Plasma 6.2 Is Now Available for Public Beta Testing, Here’s What’s ...
2024-09-12 13:34
LibreOffice 24.8.1 Office Suite Is Now Available for Download with 89 Bug Fixes
LibreOffice 24.8.1 is now available for download as the first point release to the latest LibreOffice 24.8 office suite with 89 bug fixes. The post LibreOffice 24.8.1 Office Suite Is Now Available for Download with 89 Bug Fixes appeared first on 9to5Li...
2024-09-12 12:43
Linux Mint Tease ‘Improved’ Default Cinnamon Theme
The Cinnamon desktop environment looks pretty nice on Linux Mint, but if you install it on other distributions it doesn’t look as good — but that’s about to change. In his latest monthly mail-shot, distro lead Clement Lefebvre says the &#...
2024-09-12 12:35
KDE Gear 24.08.1 Brings More Improvements to Your Favorite KDE Apps
KDE Gear 24.08.1 is now available as the first point release to the latest KDE Gear 24.08 software suite with more bug fixes and improvements. The post KDE Gear 24.08.1 Brings More Improvements to Your Favorite KDE Apps appeared first on 9to5Linux - do...
2024-09-12 11:36
New Steam Client Update Improves Compatibility with More Linux Desktops
A new Steam Client update is now available for download to improve support for more Linux desktops and the latest NVIDIA graphics drivers. The post New Steam Client Update Improves Compatibility with More Linux Desktops appeared first on 9to5Linux - do...
2024-09-12 11:00
AMD XDNA Linux Driver v3 Published For Ryzen AI Upstreaming
AMD engineers continue work toward upstreaming their XDNA kernel driver for Linux in enabling the Ryzen AI NPU on open-source. The "v3" patches were posted on Wednesday but given the timing it looks like it will be missing out still on merging for the ...
2024-09-12 11:00
Monthly News – August 2024
Many thanks for your donations and for your support. Server upgrades The repository servers were upgraded. They’re now able to serve packages at 10gbps, which is 10 times faster than before. We no longer observe bottlenecks during large updates w...
2024-09-12 10:43
New research predicts networked edge computing will present a $26bn opportunity by 2032
Report by Omdia and Canonical finds network cloudification a key priority, shows CSPs embracing open source technologies London, UK. 12 September 2024. Today, Omdia and Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, released a new research report which indicates ...
2024-09-12 09:28
Using the Pinecone vector database in .NET
If you’re building generative AI applications, you need to control the data used to generate answers to user queries. Simply dropping ChatGPT into your platform isn’t going to work, especially if you’re using proprietary data that wasn’t part ...
2024-09-12 09:00
EXT4 Extsize Hints Being Worked On As Step Toward Non-Torn/Atomic Writes
Ojaswin Mujoo with IBM has posted an initial set of "request for comments" patches implementing extsize hints for EXT4, similar to the hints being worked on for the XFS file-system. This is important work in ultimately striving toward handling non-torn...
2024-09-12 09:00
Using PostgreSQL as a vector database in RAG
PostgreSQL with the pgvector extension allows tables to be used as storage for vectors, each of which is saved as a row. It also allows any number of metadata columns to be added. In an enterprise application, this hybrid capability of storing both ve...
2024-09-12 08:30
Oracle CloudWorld 2024: Latest news and insights
Oracle CloudWorld, one of the tech industry’s signature events, began September 9th. The event, known as OpenWorld until 2020,  is a significant gathering for IT professionals, developers, and business leaders looking to explore the latest advancem...
2024-09-12 08:15