Cinnamon Desktop 6.4 Released with New Look
A new version of the Cinnamon desktop environment has been tagged for release – a sure-fire sign that the Linux Mint 22.1 beta is on the way! As the flagship desktop of Linux Mint, Cinnamon 6.4 will come preinstalled in Linux Mint 22.1 when it’s re...
Join Canonical in Mumbai at HPE Discover More
Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, is proud to sponsor HPE Discover More in Mumbai. Join us to learn how Canonical and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) can help you securely advance your business with comprehensive open source solutions that span fr...
Red Hat Ansible service comes to AWS Marketplace
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Service, for automating the management of hybrid cloud infrastructure, now is available as a managed offering on Amazon Web Services through the AWS Marketplace. General availability of Red Hat’s automation servic...
AWS PartyRock updated with free daily usage for developers
Amazon Web Services has updated AWS PartyRock, its mostly free low code tool for building generative AI applications with a new app search function and the ability to build document processing into applications. PartyRock, otherwise known as Amazon Be...
If not React, then what?
Rejecting an engrained practice of bullshitting does not come easily. Frameworkism preaches that the way to improve user experiences is to adopt more (or different) tooling from the framework’s ecosystem. This provides adherents with something to do...
MNT Pocket Reform Sculpt 24.10 preview image
Within in the last release cycle we worked on adding and extending the support for the i.MX8MP SoC as also found in one of the SoM options for the MNT Pocket Reform and are happy to show-case a first preview version of Sculpt running on this handy co...
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: December 1st, 2024
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for December 1st, 2024, brings news about Linux 6.13 Release Candidate, Cinnamon 6.4, Firefox 133, Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5, elementary OS 8, Firefox 134 beta, KDE Plasma 6.2.4, Ubuntu Touch OTA-7, Armbian 24.11, NixOS...
AMD Per-Core Energy Counter Support Slated For Linux 6.14
While the Linux 6.13 merge window just closed yesterday in landing all of the new features and functionality for that first kernel version of 2025, already for the Linux 6.14 kernel cycle to follow a feature was queued up early this morning in a TIP br...
5 ways AI will change the software development life cycle
Considering the scaling history and trajectory of generative AI models (specifically large language models, or LLMs) specialized for coding, the software development life cycle (SDLC) is ripe for disruption. Not because we’re all going to be replace...
Refactoring AI code: The good, the bad, and the weird
Generative AI is no longer a novelty in the software development world: it’s being increasingly used as an assistant (and sometimes a free agent) to write code running in real-world production. But every developer knows that writing new code from sc...