Open Source

GNOME 48 Desktop Environment Release Date Slated for March 19th, 2025
The upcoming GNOME 48 "Bengaluru" desktop environment has a release schedule with a release date set for March 19th, 2025. Here’s what to expect! The post GNOME 48 Desktop Environment Release Date Slated for March 19th, 2025 appeared first on 9to5Lin...
2024-10-28 20:31
The OSNews 2024 fundraiser: support OSNews to keep it alive
Do you want OSNews to continue to exist? Do you like the selection of news items I manage to scrounge up almost every day? Do you want OSNews free from corporate influence, “AI”-generated nonsense, and the kind of SEO-optimised blogspam we all desp...
2024-10-28 19:11
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Unleash new ways of working with flexible, cost-effective VDI
Empower your modern workforce with VDI from HPE and Canonical For years, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) has helped power the most complex IT environments—and the technology is still relevant today. After all, VDI allows employees to access thei...
2024-10-28 18:23
WebKit Features in Safari 18.1
Today, Safari 18.1 is available for iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, macOS Sequoia 15.1 and visionOS 2.1, as well as macOS Sonoma and macOS Ventura.
2024-10-28 16:30
TDE R14.1.3 released, and KDE developers hold impromptu TDE installfest at Akademy 2024
The Trinity Desktop Environment, a fork of the last release in the KDE 3.x series, has just released their latest version, R14.1.3. Despite its rather small version number change, it contains some very welcome new features. TDE started the process of i...
2024-10-28 15:02
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World’s first Haiku ransomware/malware
There’s many ways to judge if an operating system has made it to the big leagues, and one of the more unpleasant ones is the availability of malware. Haiku, the increasingly capable and daily-driveable successor to BeOS, is now officially a mainstrea...
2024-10-28 14:28
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Intel Core Ultra 9 285K Linux Memory DDR5 Performance Testing
Following last week's launch testing of the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K and Core Ultra 5 245K Arrow Lake desktop processors, the next area I've been exploring deeper has been the DDR5 memory performance including with CUDIMMs. Here's a closer look at the C...
2024-10-28 14:28
Mozilla Firefox 132 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New
Mozilla Firefox 132 open-source web browser is now available for download with various new features and improvements. Here's what's new! The post Mozilla Firefox 132 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New appeared first on 9to5Linux - do ...
2024-10-28 14:10
PCIe TPH Coming With Linux 6.13 To Further Enhance 5th Gen AMD EPYC Performance
Going back to earlier in the year AMD Linux engineers have been prepping the kernel for PCI Express TLP Processing Hints (TPH) support that allows for hints that can be injected to improve latency and lowering traffic congestion when there are several ...
2024-10-28 12:56
Canonical at India Mobile Congress 2024 – a retrospective
With an ambition to become Asia’s technology hub for telecommunications in the 5G/6G era, India hosts the annual India Mobile Congress (IMC) in Pragati Maidan, New Delhi. IMC is an annual trade exhibition for the telecommunication sector, bringing to...
2024-10-28 12:02
Raspberry Pi OS Now Enables Wayland by Default on All Raspberry Pi Models
The latest Raspberry Pi OS release enables the Wayland windowing system by default across all models of Raspberry Pi by using the labwc Wayland compositor. The post Raspberry Pi OS Now Enables Wayland by Default on All Raspberry Pi Models appeared firs...
2024-10-28 11:24
Trinity TDE R14.1.3 Lets Linux Users Still Enjoy The KDE 3.5 Desktop Experience
The Trinity Desktop Environment as a still-maintained fork of the KDE 3.5 desktop software is out with a new point release...
2024-10-28 10:53
Firefox 132 Ready With Certificate Compression, Accelerated SVG Filter Primitives
Mozilla Firefox 132.0 release builds are now available for Linux, macOS, and Windows for this newest monthly feature release to this open-source web browser...
2024-10-28 10:46
Sched_ext Scheduler Idle Selection Being Extended For LLC & NUMA Awareness
While the sched_ext extensible scheduler code was merged for Linux 6.12, work on sched_ext itself it is not over. New patches this weekend continue working on NUMA awareness for it with its default idle selection policy while similar work on CPU last l...
2024-10-28 10:12
Imagining the future of Cybersecurity
October 2024 marks the 20th anniversary of Ubuntu. The cybersecurity landscape has significantly shifted since 2004. If you have been following the Ubuntu Security Team’s special three-part series podcast that we put out to mark Cybersecurity Awarene...
2024-10-28 09:55
Qualcomm Adreno Rusticl-Based OpenCL Merged For Mesa 24.3
Another feature to look forward to with this quarter's Mesa 24.3 release is the open-source Freedreno Gallium3D driver for Qualcomm Adreno hardware now supporting Rusticl-based OpenCL compute...
2024-10-28 09:49
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: October 27th, 2024
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for October 27th, 2024, brings news about GNOME 47..1, OpenSSL 3.4, Tor Browser 14, KDE Plasma 6.2.2, PeaZip 10 , Parrot OS 6.2, Thelio Astra, AlmaLinux OS Kitten, Ubuntu turns 20, as well as all the latest distro and softw...
2024-10-28 09:21
Visual Studio Code vs. Sublime Text: Which code editor should you use?
In my comparisons of JavaScript editors and JavaScript IDEs, my top recommendations often include Sublime Text (as an editor) and Visual Studio Code (as either an editor or an IDE). Neither is restricted to JavaScript, or even JavaScript plus HTML an...
2024-10-28 09:00
Bridging the performance gap in data infrastructure for AI
In the current technology landscape, organizations are looking to AI to provide transformative product differentiation and groundbreaking new revenue streams. In 2023, large language models (LLMs) dazzled folks with the possibility of new capabilities...
2024-10-28 09:00
Open source gets complicated
Oh, for the days when “open source” was simply the business-friendly version of “free software.” When we could make believe that the Open Source Definition (OSD) crafted for a world of packaged software shipped on CDs or other physical media w...
2024-10-28 09:00