Linux Mint Tease ‘Improved’ Default Cinnamon Theme
The Cinnamon desktop environment looks pretty nice on Linux Mint, but if you install it on other distributions it doesn’t look as good — but that’s about to change. In his latest monthly mail-shot, distro lead Clement Lefebvre says the &#...
AMD XDNA Linux Driver v3 Published For Ryzen AI Upstreaming
AMD engineers continue work toward upstreaming their XDNA kernel driver for Linux in enabling the Ryzen AI NPU on open-source. The "v3" patches were posted on Wednesday but given the timing it looks like it will be missing out still on merging for the ...
Monthly News – August 2024
Many thanks for your donations and for your support. Server upgrades The repository servers were upgraded. They’re now able to serve packages at 10gbps, which is 10 times faster than before. We no longer observe bottlenecks during large updates w...
Using the Pinecone vector database in .NET
If you’re building generative AI applications, you need to control the data used to generate answers to user queries. Simply dropping ChatGPT into your platform isn’t going to work, especially if you’re using proprietary data that wasn’t part ...
Using PostgreSQL as a vector database in RAG
PostgreSQL with the pgvector extension allows tables to be used as storage for vectors, each of which is saved as a row. It also allows any number of metadata columns to be added. In an enterprise application, this hybrid capability of storing both ve...
Oracle CloudWorld 2024: Latest news and insights
Oracle CloudWorld, one of the tech industry’s signature events, began September 9th. The event, known as OpenWorld until 2020, is a significant gathering for IT professionals, developers, and business leaders looking to explore the latest advancem...
Exception handling in Java: The basics
If you’ve ever wanted to understand how failure is represented in source code, you’ve come to the right place. In addition to an overview of Java exceptions, this article gets you started with Java’s language features for throwing objects, tryin...
Linux Mint Takes To Forking Some APT Components
The Linux Mint project has at times forked various open-source projects to evolve them on their own such as the Cinnamon desktop starting out as forks of several GNOME 3 components. While their software forks and focus has mostly been at the desktop-le...
STF Opens Up Maintainer Fellowship Application Process
Last month Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund announced they would be opening a fellowship program for open-source maintainers. The Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) has been providing great investments into open-source projects while this fellowship is around inve...
