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Individual Donors Help Keep Apache Software Free for Billions of Users Worldwide
The world’s most popular operating systems and apps rely on open source software projects overseen by The Apache Software Foundation By Sally Khudairi, VP Sponsor Relations Apache software touches our lives every day — often without our being aware...
2025-08-04 16:00
Git 2.51-rc0 Makes More Preparations For Git 3.0 Where It Will Use SHA-256 By Default
Junio Hamano announced the release of Git 2.51-rc0 to kick off the new week and the first step toward Git 2.51 as the next milestone for this open-source distributed version control system...
2025-08-04 14:40
AMD Ryzen AI 5 340 "Krackan Point" Offers Outstanding Value In Sub-$500 Laptops
Over the past three months we have been excitedly testing AMD's Strix Halo SoC with the Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 flagship model as well as the Ryzen AI Max PRO 390 as one step below. Strix Halo offers excellent CPU and GPU performance capabilities at the ...
2025-08-04 13:25
NVIDIA CUDA 13.0 Available With Unified Arm Platform Support
Along with today's NVIDIA R580 Linux driver beta, the CUDA 13.0 toolkit is now available to download and depends upon the new R580 Linux driver series...
2025-08-04 12:49
Mesa NVK Driver Now Exposes Vulkan 1.4 For NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 "Blackwell" GPUs
Merged a short time ago to Mesa 25.3-devel Git and marked for back-porting to the Mesa 25.2 series is advertising Vulkan 1.4 conformance for NVIDIA's latest Blackwell GPUs...
2025-08-04 12:36
Try Xfce on Wayland with openSUSE Leap 16.0 RC
Entering RC Phase openSUSE Leap 16.0 has officially transitioned from Beta into the Release Candidate phase with the Build 148.4. The biggest challenge for the Release Team prior to Autumn release is source code management, as we want to transition bot...
2025-08-04 11:00
NVIDIA 580 Beta Linux Driver Brings Fixes, Wayland fifo-v1 Support With Vulkan
NVIDIA today published the v580.65.06 as their first beta driver version in the new NVIDIA 580 Linux driver series...
2025-08-04 10:55
Microsegmentation for developers
In the early days of network security, microsegmentation was a firewall tactic. You divided your network into trust zones, assigned rules to each zone, and tried to prevent lateral movement. Microsegmentation was slow to implement, hard to maintain, a...
2025-08-04 09:00
9 habits of the highly ineffective vibe coder
Is vibe coding really as easy as they say? Consider the butler, the meat-space equivalent of an AI. There are schools that specialize in teaching new butlers skills like how to serve breakfast or make a perfect martini. But did you know these same sch...
2025-08-04 09:00
Erasing the trust gap in AI-driven development
Software developers have never been more productive—or more anxious. The rise of AI coding assistants and generative models has fundamentally changed how software gets built, but there’s a catch. According to Stack Overflow’s 2025 Developer Surv...
2025-08-04 09:00
Bridging the trust gap in AI-driven development
Software developers have never been more productive—or more anxious. The rise of generative AI models and AI coding assistants has fundamentally changed how software gets built, but there’s a catch. According to Stack Overflow’s 2025 Developer S...
2025-08-04 09:00
AppArmor For Linux 6.17 Set To Introduce AF_UNIX Mediation, Other Improvements
Canonical engineer John Johansen sent out the AppArmor pull request today for the Linux 6.17 merge window that is heavy on changes for this Linux kernel security module...
2025-08-04 08:45
Fedora for Architects: Open Source Tools for Architectural Design
Why Fedora for Architects Architects depend on digital tools for every stage of design, from sketching to modelling and documentation. But many popular tools are expensive, closed-source, or limited to specific platforms. Fedora offers a fast, stable, ...
2025-08-04 08:00
Google Preparing To Ship Chrome With "--ozone-platform-hint=auto" For Wayland
Google Chrome/Chromium is preparing to ship with "--ozone-platform-hint=auto" functionality by default so the web browser will play nicer out-of-the-box with Wayland...
2025-08-04 06:44
Linux 6.17 Making Kdump Crash Kernel More Reliable, Less Wasted Memory
In addition to the many MM changes merged this weekend for Linux 6.17, Andrew Morton on Sunday also sent out his "non-MM" pull request for this new kernel. Notable there is improving the Kdump code to allow for crash kernel reservation made from the co...
2025-08-04 06:30
GNOME Shell 49 Beta Brings Restart/Shutdown Support To The Lock Screen
Along with the release of the Mutter 49 beta, GNOME Shell 49 beta was released on Sunday in preparation for the imminent GNOME 49 beta release. Notable here is long sought after support for having the ability to restart or shutdown the computer from GN...
2025-08-04 06:15
NetBSD 11.0 Preparing For Release With Improved Linux Emulation, Better RISC-V Support
NetBSD 11.0 release preparations have begun. The NetBSD developers are hoping to officially release NetBSD 11.0 in October and for that to happen the release candidate would be out in September and daily beta builds can already be tested...
2025-08-04 05:54
Newelle, a ‘Virtual Assistant’ for GNOME, Hits Version 1.0
For most Ubuntu users, interacting with an AI chatbot means opening your web browser or (increasingly, your IDE). Newelle, a GTK4/libadwaita app, offers a different approach — and it just hit version 1.0. Newelle bills itself as a “virtual assistan...
2025-08-03 22:59
Newelle, an AI ‘Assistant’ for GNOME, Hits Version 1.0
Newelle is a desktop AI assistant for Linux, providing a native GTK front-end to cloud and local LLMs. It features voice chat, long-term memory and extensions. You're reading Newelle, an AI ‘Assistant’ for GNOME, Hits Version 1.0, a blog post from ...
2025-08-03 22:59
Newelle, an AI “Assistant” for GNOME, Hits Version 1.0
Newelle is a desktop AI assistant for Linux, providing a native GTK front-end to cloud and local LLMs. It features voice chat, long-term memory and extensions. You're reading Newelle, an AI “Assistant” for GNOME, Hits Version 1.0, a blog post from ...
2025-08-03 22:59