TUXEDO Computers Relicenses Some Of Their Drivers To GPLv2
Following the proposed patches this week to adjust the Linux kernel's module loader to treat the TUXEDO Computers drivers as proprietary due to being GPLv3 licensed rather than GPLv2 to jive with the rest of the upstream kernel code, some of the TUXEDO...
Linux 6.13 Introducing New Rust File Abstractions
Alongside the VFS pull requests on Friday for case insensitive Tmpfs support and atomic writes for EXT4 and XFS, Christian Brauner also submitted a pull request for introducing some new file abstractions for the Rust programming language within the Lin...
Massive Half-Life 2 20th Anniversary Update is here
Valve has been holding on to a special surprise for Half-Life 2 fans to celebrate the game crossing its 20th birthday. Today, the company shipped the 20th Anniversary Update for the iconic Gordon Freeman adventure from 2004, combining the base experi...
Go language evolving for future hardware, AI workloads
The Go programming language having just turned 15 years old on November 10, proponents now are planning to adapt the Go language to large multicore systems, the latest vector and matrix hardware instructions, and the needs of AI workloads. In a blog p...
Valve Releases Half-Life 2 20th Anniversary Update
In commemorating twenty years since the release of the highly acclaimed Half-Life 2 game, Valve today released the Half-Life 2 20th Anniversary update with various fixes and other refinements. Half-Life 2 is also being made free-to-own through November...
Automatic Tiling Added to ‘Tiling Shell’ GNOME Extension
I’d promise to shut up about the Tiling Shell GNOME Shell extension but I can’t because new features are coming thick and fast — the latest: support for automatic tiling. Yes, this nifty workflow wonder is finally able to automatically tile newly...
Linux 6.13 To Expand Atomic Write Support To EXT4 & XFS
Prominent Linux developer Christian Brauner with Microsoft has begun sending out various pull requests of VFS feature changes for the imminent Linux 6.13 merge window. One of the interesting early pull requests is the VFS untorn writes series with gett...
And the #1 Python IDE is . . .
This half-month in Python and elsewhere: Take a peek at seven libraries for parallel processing in Python, tour Python’s most popular ORM libraries, and check out our Flask 3.0 tutorial. Also, place your bets for which contender remains standing whe...
