Open Source

AMD EPYC 9845 Makes For A Persuasive Upgrade With Performance & Energy Efficiency
With the new AMD EPYC 9005 processors there are SKUs up to 500 Watt with the likes of the EPYC 9965 flagship at 192 cores for Turin Dense cores or 128 Turin classic cores with the EPYC 9755. But for those looking at upgrading from an existing EPYC 9004...
2025-03-10 10:30
Fedora 43 Looking At RPM 6.0, JPEG-XL Wallpapers & Other Early Change Proposals
Fedora 42 isn't even releasing until next month but a number of early change proposals have been filed for the upcoming Fedora 43 development cycle that will be released this autumn...
2025-03-10 09:58
Building generative AI? Get ready for generative UI
There’s currently no stopping generative AI spending. Analyst firm Omdia expects spending on generative AI applications to hit $58 billion by 2028. Yet while this level of investment is a significant amount, actual deployment of generative AI applic...
2025-03-10 09:00
10 things developers love about JavaScript – and 10 things they don’t
It was 30 years ago today, Sgt. JavaScript taught the web to play. Well, not exactly but close enough. The programming language began in 1995 as a project in the depths of the browser maker Netscape. It lived under several different names including Mo...
2025-03-10 09:00
Vibes won’t make your software successful
I regret to inform you that vibes don’t pay the bills. Specifically, open source vibes. For as long as I’ve followed open source, there has been a tendency for the industry to focus on normative values of open source, i.e., why people should embra...
2025-03-10 09:00
ASUS PRIME X670E-PRO WIFI & AMD BC-250 Sensor Monitoring With Linux 6.15
The hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem updates are building up ahead of the Linux 6.15 merge window opening up later this month. Here is a look at a few of the HWMON changes worth mentioning to be found in this next version of the Linux kernel...
2025-03-10 09:00
Fedora Community Ops 2024 Reboot: A Retrospective
The Fedora Community Operations (CommOps) Initiative, formally titled “Community Ops 2024 Reboot,” ran from late 2023 to December 2024, aiming to bolster community support within the Fedora Project. This initiative demonstrated a strong interest wi...
2025-03-10 08:00
Intel Preps Xe3's "Dirty Rect" Feature For Linux 6.15
Along with other exciting Intel kernel graphics driver updates submitted for the upcoming Linux 6.15 merge window, another batch of drm-intel-next code was sent out today to DRM-Next. This pull request is mostly around bug fixing and other low-level wo...
2025-03-10 06:52
Linux's ARM Apple Support Now Has Another Code Reviewer
In hopefully helping Asahi Linux reduce their downstream patch burden and helping to enhance the overall flow of new Apple Silicon related code into the mainline Linux kernel, another developer has agreed to serve as an official code reviewer over the ...
2025-03-10 06:42
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: March 9th, 2025
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for March 9th, 2025, brings news about Firefox 136, Ubuntu Touch OTA-8, PipeWire 1.4, GNOME 48 Release Candidate, KeePassXC 2.7.10, KDE Gear 24.12.3, Clonezilla Live 3.2.1, Garuda Linux “Broadwing”, Firefox 137 beta, Mo...
2025-03-10 00:29
The New Rust-Written NVIDIA "NOVA" Driver Submitted Ahead Of Linux 6.15
For quite a while Red Hat engineers have been developing the open-source, Rust-written NOVA driver to in effect serve as the successor to the reverse-engineered Nouveau driver that isn't too actively developed in more recent times. But unlike Nouveau's...
2025-03-10 00:00
Linux 6.14-rc6 Released With More Panther Lake Additions, AMD Microcode Signing Fix
Linus Torvalds released Linux 6.14-rc6 a few minutes ago as we work toward the stable Linux 6.14 kernel release later in March...
2025-03-09 20:20
Dash to Panel GNOME Extension Gets Big Update
A big update to the perennially popular GNOME Shell extension Dash to Panel is rolling out, including new settings to go from Dash to Panel to dock mode! Admittedly, that doesn’t sound like a new feature given that Dash to Panel is based on code from...
2025-03-09 12:58
AMD Preparing "High Precision" Mode For Upcoming Instinct MI350X (GFX950)
On Friday AMD sent out another batch of AMDGPU and AMDKFD kernel driver feature patches destined for the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel cycle. One notable feature in this late pull request is introducing a new "high precision" mode to be found with the GFX...
2025-03-09 10:27
Intel Preps Linux For "Platform Temperature Control" With Lunar Lake & Panther Lake SoCs
Intel's new Platform Temperature Control (PTC) feature is a hardware-based solution to manage skin and/or board temperatures of a device. Platform Temperature Control will adjust the SoC power/performance if the temperature thresholds are exceeded, whi...
2025-03-09 10:00
More Apple Silicon Updates For Linux 6.15 Help M1/M2 Plus iPad / iPod / iPhone
Already queued ahead of the Linux 6.15 merge window opening later this month are DeviceTree support for Apple's T2 SoCs as well as other DeviceTree additions set to be mainlined. A third round of DeviceTree patches were sent out on Sunday morning to th...
2025-03-09 07:48
ALGOL 68 Compiler Front-End Not Being Merged Into GCC At This Point
ALGOL 68 is an imperative programming language that's more than a half-century old and went on to inspire and influence other programming languages. It has its place in programming language history but a recently published compiler front-end for ALGOL ...
2025-03-09 07:35
Intel NPU Firmware Files Upstreamed To linux-firmware.git
For two years now the Intel IVPU accelerator driver has been part of the mainline kernel for supporting the Neural Processing Unit (NPU) that's part of the Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" CPUs and newer. Only this week though was the firmware for the Intel NP...
2025-03-09 07:22
Microsoft previews AI chat template for .NET
Microsoft is previewing a .NET web app template intended to enable quick development of AI-powered chat applications. Part of an ongoing effort to make AI development with .NET easier to discover and use, the AI Chat Web App template was announced Mar...
2025-03-08 17:38
Kagi is Bringing Orion Web Browser to Linux
Kagi, the company behind a paid, private search engine1 of the same name, has announced it’s bringing its Webkit-based Orion web browser to Linux. In a post on BlueSky, Kagi said: “We’re thrilled to announce that development of the Orion Browser ...
2025-03-08 14:38