Open Source

Why cloud security outranks cost and scalability
According to a study by Akamai Technologies, 87% of digital-native businesses (which seems to be a term specific to Asia/Pacific) now prioritize security over cost and scalability when selecting a cloud provider. While this study focused on Asia, we s...
2024-10-04 09:00
Blender 4.3 Beta Delivers Experimental Vulkan UI Rendering
Blender 4.3 is available today in beta form to encourage public testing of this next feature release to this leading open-source 3D modeling software...
2024-10-04 08:58
Red Hat Engineer Working On DRM Panic Support For AMDGPU Driver
Red Hat engineer Jocelyn Falempe has been working to sort out DRM Panic support for the AMDGPU driver. The DRM Panic infrastructure is useful since it's what allows presenting a panic screen, a.k.a. a "Blue Screen of Death" type experience when running...
2024-10-04 06:52
Zink Seeing VA-API Video Acceleration Implemented Over Vulkan Video
The Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver has experimental code now available for testing that also implements the Video Acceleration API (VA-API) atop the Vulkan Video APIs. This is an interesting effort that now allows VA-API applications to rely on drivers w...
2024-10-04 06:39
Zrythm Digital Audio Workstation Abandoning GTK For Qt6
Zrythm is an interesting open-source digital audio workstation (DAW) software package. It's been making use of the GTK toolkit but now the developers have decided to switch to Qt6 instead...
2024-10-04 06:31
Servo Browser Adds Android Downloads, Improved Tabbing & More
The Rust-written Servo web layout engine project that was born at Mozilla and now continued by Linux Foundation Europe with other stakeholders like Igalia has been making steady progress in recent months. The project's September 2024 status report is n...
2024-10-04 06:14
Debian welcomes Freexian as our newest partner!
We are excited to announce and welcome Freexian into Debian Partners. Freexian specializes in Free Software with a particular focus on Debian GNU/Linux. Freexian can assist with consulting, training, technical support, packaging, or software developme...
2024-10-04 03:17
Celebrating 20 Years of NGINX
NGINX is twenty! This journey has been fueled by innovation and community support. Join us as we celebrate key milestones and reflect on NGINX’s evolution.
2024-10-04 03:00
Parabolic (Video Downloader) Rewritten in C++, Adjusts UI
There are plenty of ways to download videos from well-known video streaming sites on Ubuntu but I find Parabolic the easiest, least hassle option out there. For those yet to hear about it, Parabolic is a GTK4/libadwaita app for Linux (or a Qt one for W...
2024-10-04 00:33
Visual Studio Code 1.94 boosts file finding
The September 2024 release of Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code editor, version 1.94, features improvements for finding files using the File Explorer. The upgrade also introduces the ability to run Python tests with coverage. Introduced October 3, Visu...
2024-10-03 23:25
Visual Studio Code 1.94 improves file search
The September 2024 release of Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code editor, version 1.94, features improvements for finding files using the File Explorer. The upgrade also introduces the ability to run Python tests with coverage. Introduced October 3, Visu...
2024-10-03 23:25
Samsung is porting Tizen to RISC-V
In case you missed it at the 2024 Samsung Developer Conference today, our partners at Samsung Visual Display discussed the work they have been doing to port the Tizen operating system to RISC-V. Tizen is an open-source operating system (OS) that is use...
2024-10-03 20:39
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New AMD Linux Patches Aim To Further Boost Performance For Heterogeneous CPU Designs
A new set of patches from AMD Linux engineers today aim to boost the performance for heterogeneous CPU designs such as the recent Ryzen AI 300 "Strix Point" SoCs that have multiple core types...
2024-10-03 20:22
SingleStore acquires BryteFlow to boost data ingestion capabilities
SingleStore, the company behind the relational database SingleStoreDB, is acquiring data ingestion and integration software provider BryteFlow to boost its ability to connect to disparate data sources for data analytics. “SingleStore’s acquisitio...
2024-10-03 18:00
A free and open internet shouldn’t come at the expense of privacy
MARK SURMAN, PRESIDENT, MOZILLA Keeping the internet, and the content that makes it a vital and vibrant part of our global society, free and accessible has been a core focus for Mozilla from our founding. How do we ensure creators get paid for their wo...
2024-10-03 16:00
Improving online advertising through product and infrastructure
LAURA CHAMBERS, CEO, MOZILLA CORPORATION As Mark shared in his blog, Mozilla is going to be more active in digital advertising. Our hypothesis is that we need to simultaneously work on public policy, standards, products and infrastructure. Today, I wan...
2024-10-03 16:00
Introducing Lumigator
In today’s fast-moving AI landscape, choosing the right large language model (LLM) for your project can feel like navigating a maze. With hundreds of models, each offering different capabilities, the process can be overwhelming. That’s why Mozilla....
2024-10-03 15:12
Canonical at Cloud Expo 2024
The Cloud Expo Madrid 2024 will run on 16 and 17 October at IFEMA Madrid. Come down to our booth, K87, to meet us and chat about Cloud, AI, ML and more.
2024-10-03 15:09
What is a vector database?
what is vector database
2024-10-03 14:56