Open Source

The Compelling AVX-512 Performance Advantage On AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin"
Back in October following the launch of the EPYC 9005 "Turin" processors I ran an AVX-512 performance comparison for the EPYC 9755 with 512-bit data path vs. 256-bit data path vs. AVX-512 disabled. That was interesting for showing the benefits of Zen 5...
2025-01-31 10:53
Servo Aims For Shadow DOM & Improved Embedding API In 2025
The Servo open-source browser engine written in Rust has published some of their development statistics and other figures for 2025. Additionally they have shared their planned roadmap for 2025...
2025-01-31 09:41
Plunge into Python: New tools and tips for Python developers
Create luscious-looking full-stack websites in nothing but Python, get a hands-on lesson in integrating Rust and Python, and learn everything you need to know about the care and feeding of Python virtual environments. And, if you’re a noob looking f...
2025-01-31 09:00
The quantum computing reality check
In late 2024, a major pharmaceutical company invested $50 million in quantum computing initiatives through a leading cloud provider, hoping to revolutionize their drug discovery process. Six months later, they quietly shifted their resources to tradit...
2025-01-31 09:00
KVM Enhancements Within The Linux 6.14 Kernel
Along with other Intel TDX changes and AMD SEV updates separately sent out for thei n-development Linux 6.14 kernel, there is the usual hearty batch of Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) virtualization updates too...
2025-01-31 08:31
Chromium Embedded Framework "CEF" Seeing Progress On Wayland Support
One of the important pieces of open-source software still working toward proper Wayland support is the Chromium Embedded Framework "CEF" that in turn is depended upon by software like Steam, OBS Studio, Spotify, and many other software packages for hav...
2025-01-31 06:36
FUSE Hooks Up With IO_uring For Greater Performance Potential In Linux 6.14
The FUSE code within the Linux kernel for enabling file-systems in user-space has a new performance capability up its sleeve with now supporting IO_uring communication between kernel and user-space...
2025-01-31 06:23
NVIDIA VFIO Driver Prepares For Blackwell With Linux 6.14
All of the Virtual Function I/O (VFIO) driver updates were merged this week as we reach the end of the Linux 6.14 merge window...
2025-01-31 06:09
GParted Live 1.7 Launches with Experimental Bcachefs Support, Linux 6.12 LTS
GParted 1.7 open-source partition editor is now available for download with experimental support for the Bcachefs file system. GParted Live 1.7 is also out with Linux kernel 6.12 LTS. The post GParted Live 1.7 Launches with Experimental Bcachefs Suppor...
2025-01-31 03:15
TypeScript 5.8 arrives in beta
Microsoft has moved TypeScript 5.8 into the beta stage. The new release of the company’s typed superset of JavaScript introduces a limited form of type checking against conditional types in return statements. The TypeScript 5.8 beta was introduced J...
2025-01-30 23:38
TypeScript checks returns for conditional and indexed access types
Microsoft has moved TypeScript 5.8 into the beta stage. The new release of the company’s typed superset of JavaScript introduces a limited form of type checking against conditional types in return statements. The TypeScript 5.8 beta was introduced J...
2025-01-30 23:38
Mesa 25.0-rc1 Released With Initial AMD RDNA4 Support, Vulkan 1.4 & Other New Extensions
Mesa 25.0 feature development is now over with the code having been branched from Mesa Git and the Mesa 25.0-rc1 release candidate issued. Mesa 25.0 is to be the next quarterly feature release for these open-source 3D graphics drivers and will hopefull...
2025-01-30 20:36
GParted 1.7 Released With Support For Bcachefs & Network Block Devices
GParted as the GNOME Partition Editor as one of the most robust solutions for GUI-driven partition and file-system management on Linux is out with a new feature release...
2025-01-30 20:20
Intel Decides Against Bringing Falcon Shores To Market, Instead An Internal Test Chip
Intel Co-CEO Michelle Johnston Holthaus announced during their Q4 earnings call this evening that they will not be bringing their "Falcon Shores" AI / HPC chip to market. Falcon Shores was to be their next-gen GPU accelerator to effectively succeed the...
2025-01-30 19:29
High Tide is a Promising New TIDAL Client for Linux
Linux users hunting for a native client to stream music from TIDAL will want to keep an eye on a promising new open-source app called High Tide. High Tide is an unofficial but native Linux client for the TIDAL music streaming service. It’s written in...
2025-01-30 18:54
High Tide is a Promising New Linux TIDAL Client
Linux users hunting for a native client to stream music from TIDAL will want to keep an eye on a promising new open-source app called High Tide. High Tide is an unofficial but native Linux client for the TIDAL music streaming service. It’s written in...
2025-01-30 18:54
NVIDIA 570 Linux Graphics Driver Promises VRR Support on Multi-Monitor Setups
NVIDIA released a beta version of the upcoming NVIDIA 570 graphics driver promising VRR support on multi-monitor setups, performance improvements for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, and other changes. The post NVIDIA 570 Linux Graphics Driver Promi...
2025-01-30 17:22
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 / RTX 5090 Linux Gaming Benchmarks
Over the past week I have published a number of GeForce RTX 5090 Linux compute benchmarks as well as the GeForce RTX 5080 on Linux. With that early NVIDIA R570 Linux driver build as part of the CUDA 12.8 package I was asked to wait on Linux gaming benc...
2025-01-30 16:05