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QuestDB 9.0 Released For High Performance, Time-Series Database
QuestDB 9.0 debuted today as the latest major update to this high performance, time-series database that is open-source under an Apache 2.0 license. QuestDB continues to be built using a combination of Java, C++, and Rust for being an interesting time-...
2025-07-11 06:35
GCC 12.5 Compiler Released To End Out The GCC 12 Series With 241+ Bug Fixes
For those seldom update to new compiler versions, GCC 12.5 was released today as the newest and final update to the GCC 12 compiler that debuted back in 2022...
2025-07-11 06:23
From sales development to renewals: Mariam Tawakol’s career progression at Canonical
Career progression doesn’t follow a single path – and at Canonical, we embrace that. Our culture encourages individuals to explore roles aligned with their evolving skills and interests, even if it means stepping into a completely new technical spa...
2025-07-11 04:30
Ubuntu 24.04 Users Get Major Kernel, GPU Driver Update
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS users are getting a new HWE update with Linux 6.14 and Mesa 25.0, delivering a big gaming boost and support for newer hardware. You're reading Ubuntu 24.04 Users Get Major Kernel, GPU Driver Update, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not...
2025-07-10 22:59
Ubuntu 24.04.3 HWE Stack Provides a Major Mesa Upgrade
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS users are getting a new HWE update with Linux 6.14 and Mesa 25.0, delivering a big gaming boost and support for newer hardware. You're reading Ubuntu 24.04.3 HWE Stack Provides a Major Mesa Upgrade, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not...
2025-07-10 22:59
Ubuntu 24.04.3 HWE Stack Brings Big Mesa Upgrade
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS users are getting a new HWE update with Linux 6.14 and Mesa 25.0, delivering a big gaming boost and support for newer hardware. You're reading Ubuntu 24.04.3 HWE Stack Brings Big Mesa Upgrade, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not repro...
2025-07-10 22:59
Intel Readies Big Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 6.17: Multi-Device Prep, SR-IOV, WCL
Intel has some terrific improvements lined up for their modern "Xe" kernel graphics driver with the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel cycle. New hardware support, SR-IOV preparations for Battlemage, other Intel Battlemage work, and also preparations for the u...
2025-07-10 20:52
NovaCustom Launching An Intel Meteor Lake NUC Box Running On Dasharo/Coreboot
For those interested in a small form factor PC running on the open-source Coreboot firmware, Netherlands-based vendor NovaCustom is launching an Intel Meteor Lake powered NUC box running on the Dasharo downstream of Coreboot...
2025-07-10 20:14
OpenCL 3.0.19 Released With SPIR-V Queries & Android Hardware Buffer Extensions
The Khronos Group today published the OpenCL 3.0.19 documentation as the latest specification for the OpenCL 3.0 compute API...
2025-07-10 15:23
Mozilla VPN Linux App is Now Available on Flathub
Linux users can now install the official Mozilla VPN client from Flathub, making access to its paid-for, privacy-minded service more readily accessible to Linux users. The Mozilla VPN Flatpak is current in the process of verification (reminder: Linux M...
2025-07-10 15:13
System76’s Adder WS Linux Laptop Gets Intel Core Ultra i9 and NVIDIA 50 Series
System76 Linux-powered Adder WS laptop gets an Intel Core Ultra i9 275HX CPU and NVIDIA 50 Series graphics in the latest update. The post System76’s Adder WS Linux Laptop Gets Intel Core Ultra i9 and NVIDIA 50 Series appeared first on 9to5Linux - d...
2025-07-10 15:01
In pursuit of quality: UX for documentation authors
Canonical’s Platform Engineering team has been hard at work crafting documentation in Rockcraft and Charmcraft around native support for web app frameworks like Flask and Django. It’s all part of Canonical’s aim to write high quality documentatio...
2025-07-10 15:01
Nouveau NAK Lands A Big Improvement For NVIDIA Kepler GPUs: As Much As 2.5x Faster
Merged today to the open-source NVIDIA "NAK" compiler code within Mesa 25.2 is Kepler instruction scheduling. This real instruction scheduling support for GeForce GTX 600/700 "Kepler" graphics processors can provide some significant performance benefit...
2025-07-10 13:14
Ubuntu 24.10 “Oracular Oriole” Reached End of Life, Upgrade to Ubuntu 25.04
Ubuntu 24.10 “Oracular Oriole” reached end of life on July 10th, 2025, and it will no longer be supported. All users should upgrade to Ubuntu 25.04 LTS “Plucky Puffin” as soon as possible. The post Ubuntu 24.10 “Oracular Oriole” Reached En...
2025-07-10 12:56
Linux 6.15.6, 6.12.37 LTS & Other Stable Kernels Deliver TSA Mitigations
Greg Kroah-Hartman just released the Linux 6.15.6 point release as well as the Linux 6.12.37 LTS kernel and new point releases in prior-year Long Term Support kernel versions. The main headline of today's stable kernel releases are picking up the mitig...
2025-07-10 11:24
Blender 4.5 RC1 Released With Much Better Vulkan Support
The release candidate of the Blender 4.5 3D modeling software is now available for testing. There are many great improvements to find with Blender 4.5 and this new version is all the more important in being the next Long Term Support (LTS) release for ...
2025-07-10 10:04
Canonical announces Charmed Feast: A production-grade feature store for your open source MLOps stack
June 23, 2025: Today, Canonical announced the release of Charmed Feast, an enterprise solution for feature management with seamless integration with Charmed Kubeflow, Canonical’s distribution of the popular open source MLOps platform. Charmed Feast p...
2025-07-10 09:00
LibreOffice 25.8 RC1 Released With Various File Performance Improvements
The first release candidate of the LibreOffice 25.8 open-source office suite is now available for testing. This half-year update as the leading free software alternative to Microsoft Office has been working on performance improvements for various file ...
2025-07-10 08:38
Canonical Releases Multipass 1.16 As Now Fully Open-Source Project
Ubuntu maker Canonical today released Multipass 1.16 stable for this Linux / Windows / macOS means of deploying Ubuntu VM instances using this lightweight VM manager built atop Linux's KVM, Windows' Hyper-V, and QEMU on macOS. Notable with Multipass 1....
2025-07-10 08:25
Project Seeks Input on Future of 32-bit ARM
The openSUSE Project is seeking community input to determine whether it should continue supporting 32-bit ARM architectures. Maintaining support for legacy platforms is increasingly challenging. The openSUSE team cited limited upstream support and dwin...
2025-07-10 07:00