Unvanquished Working On OpenGL 4.6 Renderer Support
It's been a while since we have seen anything new to report on Unvanquished as one of the few remaining and promising open-source game projects. The Unvanquished FPS/RTS game has been in development for 12 years now and built atop the Daemon engine tha...
ARM64 SMT Control Patches Updated For The Linux Kernel
While ARM-based SoCs with Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) aren't too common, there do exist some such as select models of the Huawei Kunpeng server SoC with SMT or there HiSilicon Kirin 9000S. As such Huawei/HiSilicon engineers have been working to ...
WordPress 6.7 Beta 3
WordPress 6.7 Beta 3 is now ready for testing! This beta version of the WordPress software is under development. Please do not install, run, or test this version of WordPress on production or mission-critical websites. Instead, it is recommended you ev...
It’s Halloween — pick your spooky Firefox disguise
Halloween is creeping up on us, and this year, Firefox is getting into the spirit with a spooky twist: Our iconic fox has transformed into a lineup of eerie disguises. The real magic, of course, is that Firefox helps keep your online identity safe all ...
Community Plans Tech Summit
The openSUSE community is preparing for the Early Adopter Tech Summit on March 14 and 15, 2025, in Orlando, Florida. This event will take place at Loews Sapphire Falls Resort at Universal Orlando Resort and will take place as SUSECON concludes. Partner...
AMD EPYC 9755 DDR5-4800 vs. DDR5-6000 Memory Performance
With the newly-launched AMD EPYC 9005 series processors continuing to use Socket SP5, there is drop-in upgrade compatibility for existing EPYC 9004 series motherboards/servers. That's assuming, of course, the vendor provides a BIOS update for enabling ...
Canonical at RISC-V Summit North America 2024
The RISC-V Summit North America is a premier annual event that brings together the global RISC-V community – including technical, industry, domain, ecosystem and special interest groups who define the architecture’s specifications. All the experts ...
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: October 13th, 2024
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for October 13th, 2024, brings news about Ubuntu 24.10, KDE Plasma 6.2, Inkscape 1.4, Linux 6.10 EOL, openSUSE Leap Micro 6.0, Tails 6.8, new Linux laptop, new KDE software updates, as well as all the latest distro and soft...
GCC 15 "Stage 1" Feature Development Ending Next Month
Richard Biener of SUSE published a GCC 15.0.0 status report for outlining the current development state of the GCC 15 open-source compiler as it works its way toward the stable GCC 15.1 release in the early months of 2025...
How do we fund open source?
The world has come to rely upon the free work of millions of skilled software developers—the maintainers of free open-source software (FOSS) projects. But the world hasn’t given them a tip. While it’s true that many open-source maintainers are p...
Making genAI work for you
It’s not often someone can talk about genAI in a “pragmatic and realistic” way, but those are exactly the accolades handed out to AWS Product Management Director Massimo Re Ferrè following his recent generative AI (genAI) talk. It’s not hard ...
Making generative AI work for you
It’s not often someone can talk about genAI in a “pragmatic and realistic” way, but those are exactly the accolades handed out to AWS Product Management Director Massimo Re Ferrè following his recent generative AI (genAI) talk. It’s not hard ...
How to leverage APIs for IT-enabled information capability
In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, businesses face constant pressure to adapt or risk being left behind. The strategic use of IT-enabled information management capability (IMC) is no longer just an advantage — it’s a necessity. Compa...
