Open Source

Teradata adds Enterprise Vector Store to augment RAG
Teradata is adding vector support to its platform in the form of a new Enterprise Vector Store, an in-database offering, to enable and augment use cases that require retrieval augmented generation (RAG), such as agentic AI. Other features of Enterpris...
2025-03-04 08:54
Perforator 0.0.5 Released - Switches To Apache 2.0 License, Drops CLA Requirement
Open-sourced back in January was the Yandex Perforator as a new software project for uncovering code inefficiencies and potentially "save billions of dollars" in expenses. Perforator has continued evolving since its open-source announcement and out tod...
2025-03-04 08:35
Linux's AMD Radeon Vulkan Driver Adds Experimental Support For The BC-250 Mining Board
The AMD BC-250 is a crypto mining GPU launched by AMD back during the Bitcoin mining craze when it was profitable using GPUs for mining. At its heart is a Navi "RDNA1" GPU similar to the APU found within the Sony PlayStation 5. The AMD BC-250 can be fo...
2025-03-04 06:49
Direct3D Video Decode To Vulkan Video API Being Worked On For Wine
In addition to mapping the Direct3D graphics API to Vulkan, Wine developers are working on mapping the Direct3D video acceleration APIs to work atop the Vulkan Video API...
2025-03-04 06:32
RADV Driver Adds CI Coverage For Aging Radeon R9 290 "Hawaii" GPUs
While AMD hasn't released an updated Windows driver for the Radeon R9 290 "Hawaii" GPUs since 2022 for Windows 10, over in the Linux/open-source space the driver support continues. It will hopefully continue reliably too now that the Mesa RADV continuo...
2025-03-04 06:30
Intel Revises DRM Sharpness Property For Use With Lunar Lake Sharpening Capabilities
Going back nearly one year Intel has been working on Linux driver support for a new adaptive sharpening filter with Lunar Lake graphics. That's culminated into working on a common DRM sharpness property for communicating sharpness preferences and this ...
2025-03-04 06:18
Firefox 136 Released with Vertical Tabs, New Sidebar + More
The new Mozilla Firefox 136 release delivers a number of notable new features—features Mozilla may be hoping help it re-earn some goodwill from users following last week’s privacy palaver. Last month’s Firefox 135 release rolled out a refreshed ...
2025-03-04 03:18
KeePassXC 2.7.10 Open-Source Password Manager Brings Proton Pass Support
KeePassXC 2.7.10 open-source password manager is now available for download with Proton Pass support, Passkey support for Bitwarden imports, and more. Here's what's new! The post KeePassXC 2.7.10 Open-Source Password Manager Brings Proton Pass Support ...
2025-03-04 02:18
Bits from the DPL
Dear Debian community, this is bits from DPL for February. Ftpmaster team is seeking for new team members In December, Scott Kitterman announced his retirement from the project. I personally regret this, as I vividly remember his invaluable support dur...
2025-03-04 00:00
TypeScript 5.8 reaches general availability
Microsoft’s TypeScript 5.8, the latest version of the company’s strongly typed superset of JavaScript, has reached general availability (GA). However, one new feature introduced at the beta stage, a limited form of checking against conditional typ...
2025-03-03 23:34
C++ creator calls for help to defend programming language from ‘serious attacks’
Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of C++, has issued a call for the C++ community to defend the programming language, which has been shunned by cybersecurity agencies and technical experts in recent years for its memory safety shortcomings. C and C++ are buil...
2025-03-03 22:17
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Rust-Written Redox OS Expands Use Of Dynamic Linking
The Redox OS open-source operating system written from scratch in the Rust programming language is continuing to enjoy nice progress in 2025 on its goals. The Redox OS project has published their February 2025 status update that highlights achievements...
2025-03-03 20:17
Mozilla Firefox 136 Is Out with Vertical Tabs and Official ARM64 Linux Binaries
Mozilla Firefox 136 open-source web browser is now available for download with vertical tabs layout, Linux binaries for AArch64 systems, and much more. Here's what's new! The post Mozilla Firefox 136 Is Out with Vertical Tabs and Official ARM64 Linux B...
2025-03-03 16:16
Experiment Tracking with MLFlow in Canonical’s Data Science Stack
Welcome back, data scientists! In my previous post, we explored how easy it is to set up a machine learning environment with Canonical’s Data Science Stack (DSS) and run your first model using Hugging Face’s Smol Course. Today, let’s take it a st...
2025-03-03 13:21
Ubuntu Touch OTA-8 Released with VoLTE Support for Volla Phone Users
Ubuntu Touch OTA-8 is now rolling out to all supported devices with various improvements and fixes. Here’s what’s new! The post Ubuntu Touch OTA-8 Released with VoLTE Support for Volla Phone Users appeared first on 9to5Linux - do not reproduce this...
2025-03-03 12:32
Godot 4.4 Open-Source Game Engine Released With Many Improvements
Godot 4.4 is out as stable today for serving as the newest feature release to this leading open-source, cross-platform 2D/3D game engine...
2025-03-03 12:18
GNOME Mutter 48.rc Released With Wayland Color Management, Dynamic Triple Buffering
Ahead of the GNOME 48 stable release due out later this month, tagged now is the Mutter "48.rc" release candidate milestone. While the feature freeze passed last month, there has been a lot of last minute improvements merged for Mutter to squeeze into ...
2025-03-03 12:07
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: March 2nd, 2025
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for March 2nd, 2025, brings news about NVIDIA 570, NetworkManager 1.52, Framework Desktop and Framework Laptop 12, Armbian 25.2, KDE Plasma 6.3.2, LibreOffice 25.2.1, as well as all the latest distro and software updates. T...
2025-03-03 11:55
Firefox 136 Available With AMD GPU Linux Video Acceleration, AArch64 Linux Binaries
Mozilla Firefox 136.0 release binaries are now available online ahead of tomorrow's official release announcement. Particularly on the Linux side, Firefox 136 is one of the more exciting updates in recent times...
2025-03-03 11:46