Open Source

Submit a Presentation for the openSUSE Conference
The call for papers for openSUSE Conference 2025 is open. The conference is scheduled to take place June 26 to 28 in Nuremberg, Germany. Until April 30, people can submit proposals for a talk or workshop to share insights and their expertise. People ha...
2025-01-23 14:00
Google BigQuery gets metadata service with Iceberg support
Google Cloud is adding a new metadata service that is compatible with Apache Iceberg to its managed data analytics service BigQuery in order to help enterprises cut down complexities around metadata management. Named BigQuery metastore, the fully mana...
2025-01-23 13:09
KDE Plasma 6.3 Beta 2 Improves systemd-homed Support
Earlier this month was the release of the KDE Plasma 6.3 beta while today a second beta was issued...
2025-01-23 12:49
Linux 6.14 Power Management: "Dominated By AMD P-State Driver Changes"
All of the power management feature updates for the in-development Linux 6.14 kernel were sent out earlier this week and subsequently merged. As we've been seeing with recent Linux kernel releases, AMD continues investing a lot into their AMD P-State C...
2025-01-23 12:31
Redis 8.0-M3 Brings Async I/O Threading, 12x Speed-Up With New AVX2 Code Path
For those making use of the source-available Redis in-memory key-value database, the upcoming Redis 8.0 will offer better performance on today's high core count systems and servers...
2025-01-23 11:05
Debian 15 Is Codenamed "Duke"
With Debian 13 freeze dates announced and that Debian 13.0 "Trixie" release working its way toward release likely around August, it's then to be followed by beginning development on Debian 14 codenamed as "Forky". Yesterday when announcing the Debian T...
2025-01-23 10:04
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Linux Benchmarks: Stay Tuned
Following the unboxing embargo earlier this week for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090, today the review embargo lifts for the GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition...
2025-01-23 09:00
How to use resource-based authorization in ASP.NET Core
When implementing authorization in ASP.NET Core, we can adopt a declarative or an imperative approach. In a declarative authorization, you would typically use the [Authorize] attribute to restrict access to the resource. However, there are certain use...
2025-01-23 09:00
Stratoshark analyzes cloud applications at a syscall level
Securing cloud applications is both easy and hard. Easy because hyperscale providers such as Microsoft Azure are focused on ensuring that tenant compute environments are locked down and isolated from each other. Hard because those same provider polici...
2025-01-23 09:00
Faster AES-GCM & AES-XTS Crypto Performance For AMD CPUs With Linux 6.14
The crypto subsystem updates were sent out today for the Linux 6.14 kernel. Notable this time are new x86_64-specific optimizations for the AES-GCM and AES-XTS algorithms. Benefiting the most from these new x86_64 optimizations are recent AMD processor...
2025-01-23 08:37
Red Hat Preparing Tuned 2.25 Daemon For Linux Monitoring & Adaptive Performance Tuning
The Tuned software from Red Hat is a daemon for Linux monitoring and adaptive performance tuning as an alternative to the likes of power-profiles-daemon. Tuned ships with various profiles and allows different features for tuning the Linux system perfor...
2025-01-23 06:51
Minor Benefit Observed For Caching Symlink Lengths Within inodes On Linux 6.14
Along with other VFS pull requests for Linux 6.14 to introduce STATX_DIO_READ_ALIGN, adding a new mountinfo program, VirtualBox guest support for ARM64 VMs, and faster /proc/kcore reading, another VFS pull for this new kernel brings a minor performance...
2025-01-23 06:43
Linux 6.14 Adds Support For The Microsoft Copilot Key Found On New Laptops
Newer laptops pre-loaded with Microsoft Windows have begun adding a "Copilot" key for launching Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant or other "chatbot" software. With the upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel, that key will be mapped out correctly so that user-space ...
2025-01-23 06:32
PanVK Driver Now Exposing Vulkan 1.1 For Arm Mali Valhall v10 GPUs
With the newest code merged for Mesa 25.0, the Panfrost PanVK driver is exposing Vulkan 1.1 support on Arm Valhall "v10" graphics processors...
2025-01-23 06:18
Kazakhstan’s SOS 102: Redefining Public Safety Through Innovation
Emergency response systems worldwide are undergoing rapid transformation, and Kazakhstan is no exception. With the introduction of the SOS 102 app, the country has set a new standard for public safety, redefining how law enforcement interacts with cit...
2025-01-23 05:09
Snowdrop OS: a homebrew operating system from scratch, in x86 assembly language
Snowdrop OS was born of my childhood curiosity around what happens when a PC is turned on, the mysteries of bootable disks, and the hidden aspects of operating systems. It is a 16-bit real mode operating system for the IBM PC architecture. I designed a...
2025-01-23 00:41
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NixBSD: an unofficial NixOS fork with a FreeBSD kernel
NixBSD is an attempt to make a reproducible and declarable BSD, based on NixOS. Although theoretically much of this work could be copied to build other BSDs, all work thus far has been focused on building a FreeBSD distribution. ↫ NixBSD GitHub page ...
2025-01-23 00:26
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