Open Source

If you’ve ever wanted to understand how failure is represented in source code, you’ve come to the right place. In addition to an overview of Java exceptions, this article gets you started with Java’s language features for throwing objects, tryin...

With the upcoming PostgreSQL 17 database server release there is some initial AVX-512 optimizations that are looking quite nice according to Intel's findings...

The Linux Mint project has at times forked various open-source projects to evolve them on their own such as the Cinnamon desktop starting out as forks of several GNOME 3 components. While their software forks and focus has mostly been at the desktop-le...

Last month Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund announced they would be opening a fellowship program for open-source maintainers. The Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) has been providing great investments into open-source projects while this fellowship is around inve...

For those continuing to make use of the open-source Redis in-memory, key-value database rather than some of the new open-source forks such as Valkey, the first milestone release of Redis 8.0 Community Edition is now available for testing...

Merged yesterday into the code for Mesa 24.3 is initial support within the PanVK Vulkan driver for Arm Mali v10 graphics hardware. The v10 architecture is for second-gen Valhall GPUs and goes along with the ongoing Linux kernel driver work for the Pant...

Wine project leader Alexandre Julliard has recently been devoting some time to enhancing their GitLab deployment with new features and also in welcoming the Mono project to their GitLab instance. In case you missed it, Microsoft recently shifted stewar...

It seems Google is hell-bent on removing anything from Android that makes the platform stand apart from iOS. One of the features of Android and the Play Store that users of rooted and/or de-Googled phones will be familiar with is SafetyNet Attestation,...

This summer, I embarked on a side project to create a brand-new Palm OS game, and after less than two months of intermittent coding, I’m excited to announce that it’s ready to be released to the public! ↫ Captain’s Quarters The game...

Safari Technology Preview Release 203 is now available for download for macOS Sequoia beta and macOS Sonoma.

While Gentoo Linux recently ended their support for Itanium (IA-64) hardware, this popular source-based Linux distribution continues to support other aging platforms... Today they sent out an announcement highlighting their improved support for MIPS an...

Node.js 22.8.0, the latest release of the event-driven JavaScript runtime, adds a JavaScript API to enable on-disk caching of all modules loaded after the API is called, presenting a caching option for code. The API is called module.enable.CompileCach...

Parallels Desktop 20 has been released for macOS. The virtualisation software introduces a number of buffs for Linux VMs running on macOS. The headline change in Parallels Desktop 20 is support for macOS Sequoia, both as host OS and as a guest — impo...

VirtualBox 7.1 is now available to download for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Those upgrading from VirtualBox 7.0 or earlier will find a sizeable set of changes on offer, among them what Oracle describe as a “modernized look and feel”. Set you...

Raspberry Pi Imager 1.9 is now available for download with Qt 6 interface, AppImage bundles, vendored dependencies, and platform crypto. Here's what's new! The post Raspberry Pi Imager 1.9 Released with Qt 6 Port, AppImage Support, and More appeared fi...

Kali Linux 2024.3 ethical hacking distro is now available for download with support for Raspberry Pi 4 Compute Module Wi-Fi, new tools, and Qualcomm Snapdragon SDM845 SoC support. The post Kali Linux 2024.3 Adds 11 New Hacking Tools, Improves Raspberry...

Prompting Client is the latest security effort for snap software, and acts as a companion to the new desktop Security Center app. As you may have read in my article last week, Prompting Client is a security buffer — think doorman — that guards your...