Open Source

openSUSE Leap Micro 6.0 Launches with Self-Install and Full Disk Encryption Images
openSUSE Leap Micro 6.0 is now available for download as a secure, reliable, and lightweight operating system for containerized and virtualized workloads. Here's what's new! The post openSUSE Leap Micro 6.0 Launches with Self-Install and Full Disk Encr...
2024-10-08 15:40
NTFS Driver Lands Some Late Feature Enhancements For Linux 6.12
While the Linux 6.12 merge window has been closed for more than one week, the modern NTFS "NTFS3" driver has seen some late feature enhancements as well as some fixes merged today for this new kernel version...
2024-10-08 15:23
Presenting GRUB2 BLS
GRUB2 with BLS is now in MicroOS and Tumbleweed Recently the openSUSE project released for MicroOS and Tumbleweed a new version of the GRUB2 package, with a new subpackage grub2-$ARCH-efi-bls. This subpackage deliver a new EFI file, grubbls.efi, that c...
2024-10-08 15:00
Arm's Guarded Control Stack "GCS" Support Looks Like It Will Be Ready For Linux 6.13
For more than one year Arm engineers have been working on Guarded Control Stack "GCS" support for the Linux kernel as a means of protecting against return-oriented programming (ROP) sttacks with modern AArch64 processors. It looks like for Linux 6.13 t...
2024-10-08 14:26
Tails 6.8 Introduces File System Repair When Unlocking Persistent Storage
Tails 6.8 amnesic incognito live system distribution is now available for download with a new file system repair feature and other changes. Here's what's new! The post Tails 6.8 Introduces File System Repair When Unlocking Persistent Storage appeared f...
2024-10-08 13:32
Semicolon Books: A haven of independence and empowerment in Chicago
Jesus J. Montero is an award-winning journalist and passionate storyteller. He’s known for his investigative work covering social justice, music and culture. Jesus J. is also a producer, curating dynamic experiences that highlight culture through sto...
2024-10-08 13:04
The Pop-Up: A homegrown space for Chicago’s creatives
Jesus J. Montero is an award-winning journalist and passionate storyteller. He’s known for his investigative work covering social justice, music and culture. Jesus J. is also a producer, curating dynamic experiences that highlight culture through sto...
2024-10-08 13:04
DishRoulette Kitchen: Empowering Chicago’s entrepreneurs for generational change
Jesus J. Montero is an award-winning journalist and passionate storyteller. He’s known for his investigative work covering social justice, music and culture. Jesus J. is also a producer, curating dynamic experiences that highlight culture through sto...
2024-10-08 13:04
Local roots, digital connections: How Chicago’s small businesses are building with Solo
As a community builder at Mozilla, I’m all about staying connected — whether that’s producing community events to invite more people into our brand, or working directly with people to make sure our products are actually helping those who need the...
2024-10-08 13:04
Databricks says with its new Databricks Apps platform, you can build tailored enterprise apps in 5 minutes
Every enterprise today is looking to get as much as possible out of its data and AI investments. But when building in-house apps, developers can struggle with infrastructure constraints and maintenance, security, data governance, compliance, and other...
2024-10-08 13:00
KDE Plasma 6.2 Desktop Environment Officially Released, Here’s What’s New
KDE Plasma 6.2 desktop environment is now available with Wayland color management support, per-monitor brightness control, full Sticky Keys support on Wayland, and more. The post KDE Plasma 6.2 Desktop Environment Officially Released, Here’s What’s...
2024-10-08 10:43
Intel Xeon 6980P 1S Performance With DDR5-6400/MRDIMM-8800
With the Xeon 6980P Granite Rapids benchmarking at Phoronix the past few weeks it's been in a dual socket (2S / 2P) configuration. For those curious about the Intel Xeon 6980P 128-core server performance for a single socket (1S) configuration, here are...
2024-10-08 10:40
Intel's Rendering Toolkit Turns To More Open, Community-Welcoming Development Model
Intel's oneAPI Rendering Toolkit with the likes of OSPRay, Embree, OpenVKL, Open Image Denoise, and others has been open-source for years. But it's not been exactly an open-source development model with making it easy for independent contributors to pr...
2024-10-08 09:51
Embracing your inner on-premises self
In a significant development in the cloud computing industry, AWS, a leading hyperscaler, has recently acknowledged considerable competition from on-premises IT solutions. This admission counters the longstanding belief that enterprises seldom revert ...
2024-10-08 09:00
California’s vetoed AI bill: Bullet dodged, but not for long
Artificial intelligence has the power to revolutionize industries, drive economic growth, and improve our quality of life. But like any powerful, widely available technology, AI also poses significant risks. California’s now vetoed legislation, SB 1...
2024-10-08 09:00
SAP Build gains AI capabilities to help build autonomous agents
SAP wants developers to view its Build platform as the one extension solution for all of SAP’s applications, according to Michael Aneling, chief product officer for SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP). At its TechEd event this week it is showing ...
2024-10-08 07:00
KDE Plasma 6.2 Released With More Desktop Polishing
KDE Plasma 6.2 is now available as the latest refinement to the modern Plasma 6 desktop environment...
2024-10-08 06:58