Bringing multiple windows to Flutter desktop apps
Over the past 5 years, Canonical has been contributing to Flutter, including building out Linux support for Flutter applications, publishing libraries to help integrate into the Linux desktop and building modern applications for Ubuntu, including our s...
3 Python web frameworks for beautiful front ends
Python has long had a presence as a language for server-side frameworks, with support for most every project size or use case. But it’s historically been confined to the back end—there’s no real culture of writing Python for creating front-end, ...
How to deal with a Big Pile of Mud
Last week I talked about where those big, unwieldy code bases come from. They don’t appear out of nowhere, and no one ever plans to create one. Defining a problem is great, but what is one to do? How will you deal with the Big Pile of Mud that you ...
AMD Releases Orochi 3.0 For HIP & CUDA API Switching At Run-Time
Back in April 2022 was the announcement by AMD's GPUOpen team of Orochi as a library for HIP/CUDA API run-time switching. Making use of Orochi allows for dynamically targeting either AMD HIP or NVIDIA CUDA at run-time to ease the distribution/usage of ...
Important Changes To Intel TDX Coming With Linux 6.14
Important code restructuring to the Intel Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) code is landing for the Linux 6.14 kernel to make it more robust moving forward and preparing for future features around this confidential computing / trusted execution environment...
Software bill-of-materials docs eyed for Python packages
Software bill-of-materials (SBOM) documents would be used in Python packages as a means to improve their “measurability” and to address the problem of “phantom dependencies” in Python packages, under a Python Enhancement Proposal (PEP) now bei...
VirtualBox Update Adds Support for Linux Kernel 6.13
VirtualBox 7.1.6 is out, the third maintenance release to the VirtualBox 7.1 stable series first released in September of last year. Headline offering in this update is initial support for the recently released Linux kernel 6.13 in Linux Guest Addition...