Open Source

New Round Of Driver Optimizations For AMD RadeonSI In Mesa 25.1
Well known AMD Mesa driver developer Marek Olšák has been at it again working on some further performance optimizations to the open-source RadeonSI Gallium3D driver code...
2025-03-07 06:30
Mesa Lands A Shader Statistics Framework For More Unification Across Drivers
The latest bit of increased driver code unification and decreasing code duplication among Mesa's OpenGL and Vulkan drivers is finally introducing a common shader statistic framework...
2025-03-07 06:19
Intel VSEC Driver Preps For Diamond Rapids In Linux 6.14
Sent out today was a batch of platform-drivers-x86 fixes for the ongoing Linux 6.14 kernel cycle. Notable among these fixes is introducing Intel Xeon "Diamond Rapids" support to the Intel VSEC driver...
2025-03-07 06:14
Alibaba says its new AI model rivals DeepSeeks’s R-1, OpenAI’s o1
Alibaba Cloud on Thursday launched QwQ-32B, a compact reasoning model built on its latest large language model (LLM), Qwen2.5-32b, one it says delivers performance comparable to other large cutting edge models, including Chinese rival DeepSeek and Ope...
2025-03-07 01:38
Visual Studio Code 1.98 shines on GitHub Copilot
Visual Studio Code 1.98 has arrived, featuring enhancements to the GitHub Copilot AI coding assistant, including previews of Copilot Next Edit Suggestions, Copilot agent mode improvements, and Copilot Edits support for notebook files. Otherwise known ...
2025-03-07 00:47
Unexpected 2025 Flashback: New Linux Patches For AMD's ARM-Based Opteron A1100 "Seattle"
A new set of patches hitting the Linux kernel mailing list today may cause some flashbacks and likely not on your 2025 bingo card... Some DeviceTree updates for AMD's short-lived Opteron A1100 "Seattle" ARM SoC that was cancelled shortly after being an...
2025-03-06 20:56
Thunderbird 136 Release Adds New Appearance Controls
Desktop email client Thunderbird announced a move to monthly releases by default earlier this year, allowing new users to benefit from new features, sooner – as the new Thunderbird 136.0 release makes evident! Thunderbird 136.0 sees messages auto-ad...
2025-03-06 20:52
The Apache Software Foundation Announces New Board Members
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) held its Annual Members’ Meeting today. The following individuals were elected to the ASF Board of Directors: The ASF thanks Willem Ning Jiang, Jeff Jirsa, and Craig Russell for their service, and welcomes our new...
2025-03-06 20:51
KDE Gear 24.12.3 Improves Dolphin, Konsole, Tokodon, Itinerary, Kasts, and More
KDE Gear 24.12.3 is now available as the third maintenance update to the latest KDE Gear 24.12 open-source software suite series with fixes for various KDE applications. The post KDE Gear 24.12.3 Improves Dolphin, Konsole, Tokodon, Itinerary, Kasts, an...
2025-03-06 20:50
Huawei’s New Laptops May Run Linux, not HarmonyOS Next
Is Huawei planning to ship Linux on its upcoming MateBook laptops instead of HarmonyOS NEXT? A fresh leak out of China this week suggests so. Huawei is no stranger to selling laptops with Linux. Various models in its MateBook 13, 14, 15, and MateBook X...
2025-03-06 17:29
Apple Touch Bar Display Drivers Slated For Introduction In Linux 6.15
The upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel is expected to merge two new Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) display drivers for supporting the Apple Touch Bar displays on older Intel x86 Macs and a newer "ADP" driver for handling the Apple Touch Bar displays on the new...
2025-03-06 16:54
Browser choice? Here’s how EU’s DMA is helping make it real
Too often, well-intentioned regulation misses the mark. This can be due to poor design, poor implementation, poor compliance, or failure to address unintended consequences. But the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) has the potential to be different. The...
2025-03-06 16:32
Made O’Meter helps you easily and quickly avoid American products
With the United States having started an incredibly dumb and destructive trade war with Canada, Mexico, and most likely soon the European Union, there’s quite a few people who want to avoid American products. With how interconnected the global produc...
2025-03-06 15:31
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Thunderbird for Android January/February 2025 Progress Report
Hello, everyone, and welcome to the first Android Progress Report of 2025. We’re ready to hit the ground running improving Thunderbird for Android experience for all of our users. Our January/February update involves a look at improvements to the acc...
2025-03-06 15:12
Comparing Fuchsia components and Linux containers
Fuchsia is a new (non-Linux) operating system from Google, and one of the key pieces of Fuchsia’s design is the component framework. Components on Fuchsia have many similarities with some of the container solutions on Linux (such as Docker): they bot...
2025-03-06 15:09
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Google, DuckDuckGo massively expand “AI” search results
Clearly, online search isn’t bad enough yet, so Google is intensifying its efforts to continue speedrunning the downfall of Google Search. They’ve announced they’re going to show even more “AI”-generated answers in Search results, to more peo...
2025-03-06 15:00
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PipeWire 1.4 Is Out with RISC-V Support, MIDI2 Support, JACK Control API, and More
PipeWire 1.4 open-source multimedia server is now available with RISC-V support, MIDI2 support, PipeWire JACK control API, and other changes. Here's what's new! The post PipeWire 1.4 Is Out with RISC-V Support, MIDI2 Support, JACK Control API, and More...
2025-03-06 13:55
Ubuntu 25.10 Planning To Use Dracut By Default
For the past number of months there has been talk in the Ubuntu developer space around replacing initramfs-tools with Dracut for handling initrd generation. While there has been progress in switching to Dracut, they aren't over the finish line yet and ...
2025-03-06 12:00
Meta's eBPF-Powered Strobelight Software Reduced CPU Cycles By 20%
Adding to the excitement around the possibilities provided by the in-kernel eBPF Linux tech, Meta shared that their Strobelight software they are working on open-sourcing for profiling across servers has yielded a 20% reduction in CPU cycles and in tur...
2025-03-06 11:41
Google Authd broker: authenticate to Ubuntu Desktop/Server with your Google account
With the Authd broker for Ubuntu you can use your personal or Workspace Google account to authenticate to Ubuntu Server or Desktop
2025-03-06 10:38