Understanding Hyperlight, Microsoft’s minimal VM manager
Virtualization seemed to be one of those technologies that was done. With Hyper-V, VMware, and KVM all offering similar features and performance, all that was left to do was to support new chipset instructions and fix bugs. But slowly things began to ...
AMD 3D V-Cache Optimizer Driver To Be Merged For Linux 6.13
Last month AMD Linux engineers posted patches for a 3D V-Cache Optimizer driver for Linux that allows the user to communicate their cache vs. frequency preference depending upon workload and for the 3D V-Cache processors where some CCDs have the larger...
Google drastically improves quality of the Android Emulator
One of the things I’ve consistently heard from just about anyone involved in Android development are laments about the sorry state of the Android Emulator included in Google’s Android Studio. It seems that particularly its performance is not great,...
Rhythmbox’s New Release Fixes Its Broken DAAP Server + More
A new version of the GTK-based music player Rhythmbox has been released, the first major update in over a year. Rhythmbox 3.4.8 is billed as a ‘minor improvement release’ so there are no shiny new features or (some would say overdue) UI changes to ...
Rhythmbox’s New Release Fixes Its Broken DAAP Server
A new version of the GTK-based music player Rhythmbox has been released, the first major update in over a year. Rhythmbox 3.4.8 is billed as a ‘minor improvement release’ so there are no shiny new features or (some would say overdue) UI changes to ...
Rhythmbox Update Brings DAAP Server Fix, Podcast Tweaks
A new version of the GTK-based music player Rhythmbox has been released, the first major update in over a year. Rhythmbox 3.4.8 is billed as a ‘minor improvement release’, so there are no shiny new features or (some would say overdue) UI changes to...
.NET 9 released
Today, we are excited to announce the launch of .NET 9, the most productive, modern, secure, intelligent, and performant release of .NET yet. It’s the result of another year of effort on the part of thousands of developers from around the world. This...
Ubuntu 25.04 Plans Switch to New PDF App
Ubuntu 25.04 plans to include a new default PDF viewer app. Evince (aka Document Viewer) is the PDF app Ubuntu preinstalls at present. In fact, I can’t recall using a version of Ubuntu that didn’t have it in! Next April’s release of Ubuntu 25.04 ...
Ubuntu 25.04 Set to Ship With New PDF Viewer
It could be all change for the PDF viewer in the next version of Ubuntu. Ubuntu’s long-time PDF viewer Evince (aka Document Viewer) is comes preinstalled in Ubuntu at present—I can’t recall using a version of Ubuntu that didn’t use it. But next...
Join Canonical in Paris at Dell Technologies Forum
Canonical is thrilled to be joining forces with Dell Technologies at the upcoming Dell Technologies Forum – Paris, taking place on 19 November. This premier event brings together industry leaders and technology enthusiasts to explore the latest advan...
RISC-V Mainboard for Framework Laptop 13 Available from $199
Framework make the most exciting laptops around —I don’t own one to be able to say they’re good, but the modular components, and upgradeable and repairable ethos is unlike anything else. As news earlier this year that owners would be able to swap...
Mesa 24.3-rc2 Brings Fixes For Intel & NVK Drivers
Last week Mesa 24.3 was finally branched and Mesa 24.3-rc1 subsequently issued for getting the release process kicked off for this quarterly 3D graphics driver feature release. Out today is Mesa 24.3-rc2 with an initial batch of fixes...
quBSD: a Qubes-inspired containerization schema for FreeBSD
quBSD is a FreeBSD jails/bhyve wrapper which implements a Qubes inspired containerization schema. Written in shell, based on zfs, and uses the underlying FreeBSD tools. ↫ quBSD GitHub page quBSD really seems to build upon the best FreeBSD has to offe...
