Operating Systems

Firefox 135 Published With Safeguards To Prevent Overwhelming The Back History
Mozilla Firefox 135 release binaries are now available for those wanting to grab the latest browser release right away...
2025-02-03 10:32
How to reduce data storage costs by up to 50% with Ceph
Canonical Ceph with IntelⓇ Quick Assist Technology (QAT) In our last blog post we talked about how you can use Intel® QAT with Canonical Ceph, today we’ll cover why this technology is important from a business perspective – in other words, we’...
2025-02-03 10:32
Red Hat Hiring To Continue Advancing The Linux Desktop In 2025
Christian Schaller as Red Hat's Director of Software Engineering outlined in a blog post today some of the areas they will be focusing on this year with Fedora Workstation development. Additionally, they will be hiring at least two more Linux desktop e...
2025-02-03 10:00
Microsoft shares updated Windows 10 paid extended support program details
Microsoft has provided updated documentation on the upcoming Windows 10 extended support ESU program. Read more...
2025-02-03 09:38
FreeBSD Working On S0ix Sleep State Support For Newer Laptops
FreeBSD is working on S0ix standby power state support for better handling modern Intel and AMD laptops running this popular BSD operating system...
2025-02-03 08:45
Fwupd 2.0.5 Brings Support For More ELAN Fingerprint Readers & Fixes
Fwupd 2.0.5 is out today as the newest update to this open-source solution for system and peripheral/device firmware updating under Linux...
2025-02-03 08:33
Apply for the Swift Student Challenge now through February 23
Submissions for the Swift Student Challenge 2025 are now open through February 23. You have three more weeks to design, test, refine, and submit your app playground for consideration to be named one of 350 winners.What to know: The Challenge is fr...
Windows 11 gains 2% share, thousands quit Windows 10 as end-of-support looms
Windows 11 has gained nearly 2.53% market share as more and more users are realizing that Windows 10 is now less than 7 months away from reaching the end-of-life period. On October 14, 2025, Windows 10 support will end, and you’ll need to switch to W...
2025-02-03 06:57
Sound Open Firmware 2.12 Adds NXP iMX95 Support, Zephyr RTOS For AMD ACP 6.0
Sound Open Firmware 2.12 is now available to succeed the SOF 2.11 release from last September. Sound Open Firmware as a reminder is an open-source audio DSP firmware solution and related SDK/tooling. SOF started out as an open-source Intel project and ...
2025-02-03 06:50
Intel NPU Driver 1.13 Released For Core Ultra Linux Systems
Intel on Friday released an updated user-space driver for their Neural Processing Unit (NPU) found with Core Ultra SoCs. This user-space driver code works with the IVPU accelerator kernel driver for opening up the Intel NPU for helping speed-up AI work...
2025-02-03 06:36
Red Hat Releases Tuned 2.25 Daemon For Linux Adaptive Performance Tuning & Monitoring
Red Hat engineers have released Tuned 2.25 as the newest version of their alternative to power-profiles-daemon and similar for adaptive performance tuning and monitoring. Tuned ships with various profiles and different capabilities for tuning Linux sys...
2025-02-03 06:26
Turbostat Preps For Intel Clearwater Forest & Panther Lake
Yesterday just prior to the Linux 6.14-rc1 release were some last minute changes to the Turbostat utility that lives within the Linux kernel source tree...
2025-02-03 06:20
Windows 11 hits a new market share milestone as Windows 10's death looms on the horizon
Global market share data suggests that Windows 11 hit 36.65% overall OS version market share in January 2025, as Microsoft starts warning users of Windows 10's imminent "demise."
2025-02-03 03:45
The Apple Vision Pro feature that could change how you work
Apple Vision Pro can transport you from a small, distracting room to an expansive outdoor landscape with the flick of a dial. These immersive environments are great for escaping — especially Mount Hood and the Moon. But here’s the thing. Bora Bora ...
2025-02-03 03:22
These five Apple products could launch as soon as next month
We’ve been off to a light start in 2025 in terms of Apple products, with the main announcement this year being the new Black Unity Sport Loop. However, we’re approaching the spring time, and Apple has five relatively major products in the pipeline....
2025-02-03 03:20
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: February 2nd, 2025
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for February 2nd, 2025, brings news about Mozilla Thunderbird 134, Linux kernel 6.14 RC, NVIDIA 570 beta, Nitrux 3.9, GParted 1.7, CachyOS release for February 2025, KaOS 2025.01, GCompris 25.0, ParrotOS 6.3, System76’s M...
2025-02-03 03:12
Apple Vision Pro anniversary: one year later, one less excuse
On this date a year ago, I was first in line for a demo of Apple Vision Pro at Apple Lakeside Shopping Center in New Orleans. Anticipating a line, I arrived an hour before the store opened. However, I still would have been first in line if I arrived 10...
2025-02-03 02:49
How to Fix Spotify ‘No PubKey’ Error on Ubuntu
Do you use the official Spotify DEB on Ubuntu (or an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution like Linux Mint)? If so, you’ll be used to receiving updates to the Spotify Linux client direct from the official Spotify APT repo, right alongside all your other DE...
2025-02-03 02:48
OpenAI introduces Deep research, a new AI agent that can complete multi-step research tasks
OpenAI has launched Deep Research, a new ChatGPT feature that uses AI to perform in-depth web research and generate reports. Read more...
2025-02-03 02:38
Linus Torvalds Announces First Linux Kernel 6.14 Release Candidate
Linus Torvalds announced the general availability of the first Release Candidate version of the upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel series for public testing. Here’s what to expect! The post Linus Torvalds Announces First Linux Kernel 6.14 Release Candidate a...
2025-02-03 00:13