Open Source

WebKitGTK 2.46 Uses Skia Rather Than Cairo, More CPU/GPU Optimizations To Come
Igalia open-source developer Carlos Garcia Campos has written a new blog post to outline recent graphics improvements found in WebKitGTK 2.46 and WPEWebKit 2.46. Most notable with the new stable release is using the Skia library rather than Cairo as th...
2024-10-01 06:17
Granite Rapids, AmpereOne & PREEMPT_RT Landing Made For An Exciting September
During the month of September on Phoronix there were 265 original news articles and 16 Linux hardware reviews / featured benchmark articles. Here's a look back at the most exciting content for September...
2024-10-01 06:07
WordPress 6.7 Beta 1
WordPress 6.7 Beta 1 is now ready for download and testing! This version of the WordPress software is under development. Please do not install, run, or test this version of WordPress on production or mission-critical websites. Instead, it is recommende...
2024-10-01 05:00
Raspberry Pi’s New $70 AI Camera Works With All Pi Models
If you’re looking to kick the tyres on some AI image processing/recognition tasks and you own an older Raspberry Pi, the new AI Camera add-on may be of interest. While the $70 Raspberry Pi AI Kit only works with a Raspberry Pi 5, the $70 AI camer...
2024-10-01 02:00
Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 204
Safari Technology Preview Release 204 is now available for download for macOS Sequoia beta and macOS Sonoma.
2024-09-30 23:00
Large language models hallucinating non-existent developer packages could fuel supply chain attacks
Large Language Models (LLMs) have a serious “package hallucination” problem that could lead to a wave of maliciously-coded packages in the supply chain, researchers have discovered in one of the largest and most in-depth ever studies to investigat...
2024-09-30 22:00
Arch Linux and Valve deepen ties with direct collaboration
When Valve took its second major crack at making Steam machines happen, in the form of the Steam Deck, one of the big surprises was the company’s choice to base the Linux operating system the Steam Deck uses on Arch Linux, instead of the Debian b...
2024-09-30 21:00
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Cinnamon Pursuing Visual Improvements, Linux Mint Continues Working On Aptkit
The Linux Mint project has published their status update for September 2024 that outlines work on this desktop-focused, Ubuntu-derived Linux distribution as well as its in-house Cinnamon desktop environment...
2024-09-30 20:00
Linux Mint Gives First Look at New Cinnamon Theme
As revealed last month, Linux Mint is working on an improved default theme for the Cinnamon desktop – and today we got our first look at what’s coming. The way Cinnamon looks in Linux Mint (the distribution) is not the way it looks if you insta...
2024-09-30 19:00
Help Us Test the Thunderbird for Android Beta!
The Thunderbird for Android beta is out and we’re asking our community to help us test it. Beta testing helps us find critical bugs and rough edges that we can polish in the next few weeks. The more people who test the beta and ensure everything in t...
2024-09-30 19:00
How to deploy AI workloads at the edge using open source solutions
Running AI workloads at the edge with Canonical and Lenovo AI is driving a new wave of opportunities in all kinds of edge settings—from predictive maintenance in manufacturing, to virtual assistants in healthcare, to telco router optimisation in the ...
2024-09-30 18:00
New Debian Developers and Maintainers (July and August 2024)
The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months: Carlos Henrique Lima Melara (charles) Joenio Marques da Costa (joenio) Blair Noctis (ncts) The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last tw...
2024-09-30 16:30
DOOM Ported To Run Atop AMD ROCm + LLVM libc
An open-source developer at AMD has carried out a DOOM port that runs almost entirely atop AMD GPUs for rendering and the game logic. This DOOM GPU port relies on the AMD ROCm library with the LLVM libc C library for offloading the classic DOOM to the ...
2024-09-30 16:00
The waiting game is over. 5G is coming to the edge.
Canonical and Omdia’s report reveals that 96% of CSPs will launch commercial 5G edge computing within 2 years. In this blog, we examine the drivers behind this optimism.
2024-09-30 16:00
Linux Mint 22.1 Slated for Release in December with Revamped Cinnamon Theme
The Linux Mint 22.1 distribution was slated for release in December 2024 with a revamped Cinnamon theme and better package management. Here's a sneak peek! The post Linux Mint 22.1 Slated for Release in December with Revamped Cinnamon Theme appeared fi...
2024-09-30 15:00
Tumbleweed Monthly Update - September 2024
Welcome to the monthly update for Tumbleweed for September 2024! This month, the rolling-release model has kept pace with numerous important updates and bug fixes. PostgreSQL received a major update moving to 17 and text shaping engine harfbuzz had a m...
2024-09-30 15:00
California’s new law forces digital stores to admit you’re just licensing content, not buying it
California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a law (AB 2426) to combat “disappearing” purchases of digital games, movies, music, and ebooks. The legislation will force digital storefronts to tell customers they’re just getting a license to use the...
2024-09-30 14:00
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Mozilla Firefox 131 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New
Mozilla Firefox 131 open-source web browser is now available for download with supports for text fragments, improved translations, temporarily site permissions, and more. The post Mozilla Firefox 131 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What&#82...
2024-09-30 14:00
Audacious 4.4.1 Open-Source Audio Player Brings New Features and Improvements
Audacious 4.4.1 open-source media player is now availablewith titlebar dimming for Winamp skins, improved control responsiveness, Qt 6 support for the Qt Multimedia output plugin, and more. The post Audacious 4.4.1 Open-Source Audio Player Brings New F...
2024-09-30 14:00