Linux Mint 22.1 Beta is Now Available to Download
A beta version of Linux Mint 22.1 “Xia” is now officially available to download, ahead of an anticipated stable release at the end of December. Linux Mint 22.1 is an in-series update to Linux Mint 22, released earlier back in July. As such, it cont...
Btrfs SIG Established For Advancing Btrfs Interests On Fedora
While Fedora Workstation has defaulted to using the Btrfs file-system for the past four years, only this past summer was the idea raised of creating a Fedora special interest group (SIG) around Btrfs to help advance efforts around this CoW file-system ...
QEMU with VirtIO GPU Vulkan support
With its latest reales qemu added the Venus patches so that virtio-gpu now support venus encapsulation for vulkan. This is one more piece to the puzzle towards full Vulkan support. An outdated blog post on clollabora described in 2021 how to enable 3...
Turning off Zen 4’s op cache for curiosity and giggles
CPUs start executing instructions by fetching those instruction bytes from memory and decoding them into internal operations (micro-ops). Getting data from memory and operating on it consumes power and incurs latency. Micro-op caching is a popular tech...
A twenty-five year old curl bug
When we announced the security flaw CVE-2024-11053 on December 11, 2024 together with the release of curl 8.11.1 we fixed a security bug that was introduced in a curl release 9039 days ago. That is close to twenty-five years. The previous record ...
What is vulnerability management?
Vulnerability management is the holistic process of identifying and handling security risks in an organization’s networks, systems and devices. Vulnerability management serves an overarching strategy that describes and outlines the many individual ef...
Linux Mint 22.1 “Xia” – BETA Release
This is the BETA release for Linux Mint 22.1 “Xia”. Linux Mint 22.1 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2029. It comes with updated software and brings refinements and many new features to make your desktop even more comfor...
How to chunk data using LINQ in C#
Language-Integrated Query, or LINQ for short, brings a query execution pipeline directly into C# and the managed environments of .NET Framework and .NET Core. LINQ provides several ways to execute queries and handle complex data manipulation tasks. Ch...
Azure hardware innovations and the serverless cloud future
Microsoft uses its events to lift the hood on Azure’s hardware and the infrastructure it uses to manage and run its services. Ignite 2024 was no different. Azure CTO Mark Russinovich’s regular Inside Azure Innovations presentation went into some d...
InfoWorld’s 2024 Technology of the Year Award winners
Artificial intelligence, including generative AI, continues to evolve rapidly across enterprise organizations, despite a lot of heavy lifting still required of software developers and data scientists. Many organizations continue to struggle to move ge...
