Open Source

Mesa RADV Driver Delivers Conformant Vulkan 1.3 Support For Old AMD GFX6/GFX7 GPUs
While old Radeon GFX6/GFX7 era graphics processors are no longer actively supported by AMD on Windows and haven't been for quite a while, under Linux with the upstream open-source driver stack they remain supported and still enjoying improvements in la...
2024-11-07 06:56
Haiku Enjoyed A Busy October Implementing More Features
The Haiku open-source operating system project inspired by BeOS has remained very active implementing more features and fixes as we approach the end of 2024...
2024-11-07 06:42
Mesa 24.3 Merges Vulkan FIFO Support On Wayland
Yet another feature merging into Mesa 24.3 with the code branching (feature freeze) yet to take place is Vulkan FIFO presentation mode support under Wayland...
2024-11-07 06:33
OpenCL Headers & SDK Updated For OpenCL 3.0.17
Near the end of October OpenCL 3.0.17 was released as the newest maintenance update to this low-level compute API for cross-vendor GPUs and other accelerators. The OpenCL Headers and SDK have now been updated for the new revision...
2024-11-07 06:19
GIMP 3.0 Release Candidate Is Now Available for Public Testing
The Release Candidate (RC) development version of the GIMP 3.0 open-source image editing software is now available for public testing. Here's what to expect! The post GIMP 3.0 Release Candidate Is Now Available for Public Testing appeared first on 9to5...
2024-11-07 01:02
Burn My Windows Adds Dreamy New ‘Focus’ Effect
It’s been a while since the gorgeous (if admittedly gimmicky) Burn My Windows GNOME Shell extension added a new effect to appease fans of over-the-top window closing and opening animations. But the latest release, Burn My Windows v44, rolling out on ...
2024-11-07 00:22
Bits from the DPL
Dear Debian community, this is Bits from DPL for October. In addition to a summary of my recent activities, I aim to include newsworthy developments within Debian that might be of interest to the broader community. I believe this provides valuable insi...
2024-11-07 00:00
.NET vector data abstractions library now available in preview
Microsoft has introduced its Microsoft.Extensions.VectorData.Abstractions library, now in preview. The library provides abstractions to help integrate vector stores into .NET applications and libraries. The vector data abstractions library, introduced...
2024-11-06 21:37
Notepad gets “AI”
Nothing is sacred. With this update, we are introducing the ability to rewrite content in Notepad with the help of generative AI. You can rephrase sentences, adjust the tone, and modify the length of your content based on your preferences to refine you...
2024-11-06 21:16
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‘Package confusion’ attack against NPM used to trick developers into downloading malware
Application testing company Checkmarx has warned developers to be on the lookout for malicious NPM packages, after discovering a new attack that employs typosquatting to impersonate two popular packages. Part of a much larger campaign against NPM, in ...
2024-11-06 21:08
AMD ROCm 6.2.4 Released With Radeon PRO V710 Support & Documentation Updates
AMD ROCm 6.2.4 is out today as the newest point release for this Radeon and Instinct open-source GPU compute stack...
2024-11-06 20:41
Tracing Your Kubernetes Ingress Traffic
Learn to trace Kubernetes ingress traffic with the NGINX OpenTelemetry Module. This example includes setup, configuration, and traffic analysis to improve app diagnostics and performance.
2024-11-06 19:01
GIMP 3.2 Will Aim To Be Out Within One Year Of GIMP 3.0
Following the GIMP 3.0-RC1 tagging, the GIMP project has now put out their lengthy write-up outlining many of the new features to enjoy with this first release candidate of the much anticipated GIMP 3.0. Plus there is a few words about future releases ...
2024-11-06 16:22
Fresh Take On Linux Uncached Buffered I/O "RWF_UNCACHED" Nets 65~75% Improvement
Linux I/O expert and block/IO_uring maintainer Jens Axboe of Meta has recently revisited his patches around uncached buffered I/O. Back in 2019 the "RWF_UNCACHED" effort was started by Axboe to address a throughput cliff in performance once the page ca...
2024-11-06 15:02