Open Source

Reproducible-openSUSE (RBOS) Project Hits Milestone
The Reproducible-openSUSE (RBOS) project, which is a proof-of-concept fork of openSUSE, has reached a significant milestone after demonstrating a usable Linux distribution can be built with 100% bit-identical packages. Reproducible builds ensure softwa...
2025-02-18 07:00
AMD Continues Preparing openSIL Concept For Phoenix & Turin Processors
One of the AMD software projects we are very bullish on for the future is openSIL for opening up more of the CPU silicon initialization code for what will eventually replace AGESA across all client and server processors that is aiming for production re...
2025-02-18 06:49
openSUSE Spin Achieves 100% Bit-Identical Packages For Reproducible Builds
There is an openSUSE project called Reproducible-openSUSE "RBOS" working on a proof-of-concept for constructing openSUSE in a bit-identical manner as part of the broad Reproducible Builds effort to be able to reproduce builds bit-for-bit against what i...
2025-02-18 06:30
PostgreSQL Lands Self-Join Elimination Optimization
More than seven years in the making, merged yesterday for PostgreSQL is a self-join elimination "SJE" feature as a performance optimization for some queries...
2025-02-18 06:21
You Can Now Install Linux Kernel 6.13 on Ubuntu, Here’s How
You can now install the latest and greatest Linux 6.13 kernel series on your Ubuntu distribution. Here’s how to do it! The post You Can Now Install Linux Kernel 6.13 on Ubuntu, Here’s How appeared first on 9to5Linux - do not reproduce this article ...
2025-02-18 02:42
ArcaOS 5.1.1 released
It’s been two years since the release of ArcaOS 5.1, which was a hugely important release because it brought UEFI support to this continuation of IBM’s OS/2, ensuring longevity for the project for years to come. Since I don’t think much is known ...
2025-02-17 23:28
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Ubuntu LTS May Get More Intel GPU Updates, More Frequently
This week sees the (belated) release of Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS, the first point release update in the noble series to deliver an updated hardware enablement (HWE) stack. Ubuntu’s HWE backports newer Linux kernel and Mesa GPU drivers to LTS users in an ef...
2025-02-17 23:10
Ubuntu LTS Users Could Get Intel GPU Updates More Frequently
This week sees the (belated) release of Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS, the first point release update in the noble series to deliver an updated hardware enablement (HWE) stack. Ubuntu’s HWE backports newer Linux kernel and Mesa GPU drivers to LTS users in an ef...
2025-02-17 23:10
Ubuntu LTS Users Could Get More Intel GPU Updates
This week sees the (belated) release of Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS, the first point release update in the noble series to bring an updated hardware enablement (HWE) stack with it. Ubuntu’s HWE backports newer Linux kernel and Mesa GPU drivers to LTS users to...
2025-02-17 23:10
Ubuntu LTS Users Could Soon Get Frequent Intel GPU Updates
This week sees the (belated) release of Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS, the first point release update in the noble series to bring an updated hardware enablement (HWE) stack with it. Ubuntu’s HWE backports newer Linux kernel and Mesa GPU drivers to LTS users to...
2025-02-17 23:10
Ubuntu LTS Users Might Soon Get Frequent Intel GPU Updates
This week sees the (belated) release of Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS, the first point release update in the noble series to bring an updated hardware enablement (HWE) stack with it. Ubuntu’s HWE backports newer1 Linux kernel and Mesa GPU drivers to LTS users t...
2025-02-17 23:10
UNIX man pages
What might be somewhat more surprising though considering its research origins is that Unix almost since the very beginning had a comprehensive set of online reference documentation for all its commands, system calls, file formats, etc. These are the t...
2025-02-17 22:23
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Did the Windows 95 setup team forget that MS-DOS can do graphics?
One of the reactions to my discussion of why Windows 95 setup used three operating systems (and oh there were many) was my explanation that an MS-DOS based setup program would be text-mode. But c’mon, MS-DOS could do graphics! Are you just a bunch of...
2025-02-17 21:49
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SDL & MPV Media Player Land Support For Wayland Color Management / HDR
Following the upstream Wayland Protocols repository landing the Wayland color management protocol for enabling HDR support and this morning's release of Wayland Protocols 1.41, the SDL library and MPV media player are the first two clients supporting t...
2025-02-17 20:52
Progress Continues On Unofficial Firefox GTK4 Port, Code Now Available On GitHub
For all of those that were intrigued over the independent code porting the Firefox web browser to the GTK4 toolkit, there has been a bit more progress and all of the code is also now obtainable via GitHub for this unofficial port...
2025-02-17 18:37
FOSDEM 2025 Recap: Open Source Contributors Unite to Collaborate and Help Advance Apache Software Projects 
FOSDEM 2025 has come to a close, and it certainly was not without a lot of content and participation from ASF members, committers, and contributors! We asked ASF participants to provide summaries and observations from this year’s premier free softwar...
2025-02-17 17:00
ISD 0.5 Released For Interactive systemd Management
A few weeks ago I wrote about ISD as a new open-source project for interactively managing systemd that aims to be more user intuitive especially for those that aren't veteran Linux server administrators. ISD has continued evolving and out today is ISD ...
2025-02-17 15:09
CodeWeavers Hiring More Developers To Work On Wine & Valve's Proton
The friends at CodeWeavers have relayed work that they are looking to hire multiple Wine developers to join their paid team working on upstream Wine as well as their CrossOver products, Valve's Proton downstream for Steam Play, and related Wine-based t...
2025-02-17 14:59
A deep dive into our grid system and typography for the A4 format
We recently redesigned our whitepapers as part of our broader rebranding project. Let’s look at some of the ideas behind our approach to layout and typography. The goal? A reliable, accessible modular system that communicates with clarity, purpose an...
2025-02-17 12:01
A look under the hood of our grid system and typography for the A4 format
We recently redesigned our whitepapers as part of our broader rebranding project. Let’s look at some of the ideas behind our approach to layout and typography. The goal? A reliable, accessible modular system that communicates with clarity, purpose an...
2025-02-17 12:01