Open Source

Much Faster Suspend & Resume For Some Systems With Linux 6.14
Alongside the power management and thermal driver updates this week for the ongoing Linux 6.14 kernel cycle were also the ACPI updates. The ACPI pull request was worth calling out on its own thanks to a change that will allow for faster suspend and res...
2025-01-25 07:19
Intel THC, Wacom PCI Device & SteelSeries Arctis 9 Support Land In Linux 6.14
All of the Human Interface Device (HID) subsystem updates have been merged for the ongoing Linux 6.14 merge window...
2025-01-25 07:01
SUSE's New "Agama 11" Installer Preps For SLES 16 Beta / openSUSE Leap 16
The SUSE/openSUSE Agama Installer is a modern web UI driven installer for the SUSE/openSUSE Linux distributions. It's modern, sports a cleaner UI and underlying architecture, and supports more features. The Agama 11 installer update was released this w...
2025-01-25 06:46
Linux 6.14 Drops EFI's Long Obsolete UGA Protocol
The EFI updates have been merged for the Linux 6.14 kernel. The EFI updates this cycle aren't the most exciting but the kernel has finally bid farewell to the long obsolete UGA graphics protocol support...
2025-01-25 06:35
KDE Plasma 6.4 Begins Seeing Early Feature Work, Plasma 6.3 Sees More Fixes
This week saw an updated KDE Plasma 6.3 beta release and more bug fixing taking place there while also beginning to see early feature work toward the follow-on Plasma 6.4 desktop...
2025-01-25 06:15
Bun 1.2 squashes Node.js compatibility bugs
Bun 1.2, an update to the all-in-one runtime and toolkit for building, running, and testing full-stack JavaScript and TypeScript applications, has arrived, boasting dramatic improvements in Node.js compatibility. The new version also adds a built-in A...
2025-01-24 23:26
Uncached Buffered I/O & Some Other Nice Memory Management Optimizations With Linux 6.14
Andrew Morton made for an exciting Friday evening by sending out his "MM" pull request for Linux 6.14 as the large collection of memory management related patches for this next kernel version...
2025-01-24 20:28
Ubuntu 24.04.2 Arrives Feb 13 with Linux Kernel 6.11
Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS is scheduled for release on February 13th – in time for Valentines Day, aww. Canonical’s Florent Jacquet shares the date on the Ubuntu Developer mailing list today along with a note to developers to be mindful of their package up...
2025-01-24 16:37
Linux 6.14 Adds Support For Blaize BLZP1600, SpacemiT K1 & Snapdragon 8 Elite SoCs
The four SoC pull requests were sent out today for the ongoing Linux 6.14 merge window. These pull requests are principally about various ARM SoC and platform hardware additions/changes but also an increasing number of RISC-V SoC activity too...
2025-01-24 13:52
Vulkan 1.4.306 Published With Two More Extensions
Vulkan 1.4.306 was published this morning as the newest routine specification update to this graphics/compute API...
2025-01-24 13:10
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Linux GPU Compute Performance Benchmarks
While there have been a lot of GeForce RTX 5090 Windows gaming benchmarks since the review embargo lift yesterday, for those more fascinated by this high-end Blackwell desktop graphics card for its GPU compute potential on Linux, this article is for yo...
2025-01-24 11:36
GNOME 48 Alpha Is Now Available for Public Testing, Here’s What’s New
GNOME 48 Alpha is now available for public testing with support for accent colors, Wayland improvements, and many other changes. Here’s what to expect! The post GNOME 48 Alpha Is Now Available for Public Testing, Here’s What’s New appeared first ...
2025-01-24 11:26
Several Linux DRM Drivers Orphaned Due To Developer Health
Several of the upstream Linux Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) drivers have become orphaned due to the unfortunately declining health of their lone driver maintainer...
2025-01-24 10:06
Ready or not, here it comes: GenAI in 2025
If you’re a software developer right now, it is nearly impossible to avoid chatter about generative AI. You’re probably already using AI tools in your work, whether you like it or not. Some of your normie friends are using ChatGPT as a search engi...
2025-01-24 09:00
Is cloud-based AI becoming a monopoly?
The landscape of artificial intelligence and cloud computing is rapidly evolving. A recent report from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) highlights concerns about monopolistic practices and has sent ripples through the tech industry. This report, whi...
2025-01-24 09:00
JetBrains launches AI coding agent
JetBrains has launched an AI coding agent, named Junie, with the ability to quickly solve coding tasks that otherwise could take hours, according to JetBrains. Developers using Junie can delegate routine tasks or collaborate with the tool to partner o...
2025-01-24 09:00
Linux 6.14 Bringing Better Read Performance For CIFS
The Common Internet File System (CIFS) as an implementation of the SMB protocol for commonly sharing files with Windows systems will enjoy better read performance with the Linux 6.14 kernel...
2025-01-24 08:57
Linux 6.14 Delivering Better Read Performance For CIFS
The Common Internet File System (CIFS) as an implementation of the SMB protocol for commonly sharing files with Windows systems will enjoy better read performance with the Linux 6.14 kernel...
2025-01-24 08:57
Update on hibernation in Fedora Workstation
Goals and rationale Hibernation stores the state of the whole operating system — the contents of memory used by the kernel and all programs — on disk. The machine is then completely powered off. Upon next boot, this state is restored and the old ke...
2025-01-24 08:00