4 cool new projects to try in Copr for October 2024
Copr is a build-system for anyone in the Fedora community. It hosts thousands of projects for various purposes and audiences. Some of them should never be installed by anyone, some are already being transitioned to the official Fedora Linux repositori...
SiFive HiFive Premier P550 RISC-V Development Board Update
Earlier this year SiFive announced the HiFive Premier P550 RISC-V development board with plans for shipping in July. That timeframe for shipping since passed but SiFive today issued a new update on their RISC-V development board...
Microsoft maintains its own Windows debloat scripts on GitHub
It’s no secret that a default Windows installation is… Hefty. In more ways than one, Windows is a bit on the obese side of the spectrum, from taking up a lot of disk space, to requiring hefty system requirements (artificial or not), to coming with ...
Booting Sun SPARC servers
In early 2022 I got several Sun SPARC servers for free off of a FreeCycle ad: I was recently called out for not providing any sort of update on those devices… so here we go! ↫ Sidneys1.com Some information on booting old-style SPARC machines, a...
IBM works to address the developer skills gap with AI
When IBM announced in May 2023 that its generative artificial intelligence tools were in use by its AI assistant, watsonx, to help enterprises modernize their mainframe applications by translating COBOL code into Java, it was just the beginning of its...
Maximize Your Day: Focus Your Inbox with ‘Grouped by Sort’
For me, staying on top of my inbox has always seemed like an unattainable goal. I’m not an organized person by nature. Periodic and severe email anxiety (thanks, grad school!) often meant my inbox was in the quadruple digits (!). Lately, something’...
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: October 20th, 2024
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for October 20th, 2024, brings news about Solus 4.6, Clonezilla Live 3.2, KDE Plasma 6.2.1, fwupd 2.0.1, Ardour 8.10, Calibre 7.20, PorteuX 1.7, VirtualBox 7.1.4 adding initial Linux 6.12 support, as well as all the latest ...
11 open source AI projects that developers will love
The most creative and impactful ideas in software often appear as open source. Sharing code invites a global community of contributors to work together to drive a project forward. Artificial intelligence is no exception. While AI’s need for computat...
How Kubecost shines a light on GPU efficiency
Many enterprise engineering teams—perhaps most at this point—have dived headlong into GPUs to build out proofs-of-concept and operationalize new products. While competitive pressures dictated the direction, GPU cost concerns have begun moving from...
Stopping the rot in AI spending
They say that half the money spent on advertising is wasted, but the problem is figuring out which half. If that’s true, the problem is arguably worse for AI. Talk to people deep in the AI weeds and they’ll tell you upwards of 90% of money spent o...
Ada Lovelace Day 2024 - Interview with some Women in Debian
Ada Lovelace Day was celebrated on October 8 in 2024, and on this occasion, to celebrate and raise awareness of the contributions of women to the STEM fields we interviewed some of the women in Debian. Here we share their thoughts, comments, and conce...
