Open Source

Linux Fixes "Meltdown Lite" Mitigation Handling On Newer Zen 5 CPUs
Linus Torvalds took to some coding himself today to fix a user-address masking non-canonical speculation issue. The Linux kernel needed an adaptation for this "Meltdown Lite" issue due to different behavior with the latest AMD Zen 5 processors...
2024-10-25 16:30
Linux Adjusts "Meltdown Lite" Mitigation Handling On Newer Zen 5 CPUs
Linus Torvalds took to some coding himself today to fix a user-address masking non-canonical speculation issue. The Linux kernel needed an adaptation for this "Meltdown Lite" issue due to different behavior with the latest AMD Zen 5 processors...
2024-10-25 16:30
Hugging Face pitches HUGS as an alternative to Nvidia’s NIM for open models
Generative AI model and repositories provider Hugging Face this week launched an alternative to Nvidia’s NIM (Nvidia Inference Microservices). Hugging Face Generative AI Services, or HUGS, is the only available alternative to NIM presently. NIM, whi...
2024-10-25 13:26
Intel Core Ultra 5 245K Linux Performance
Yesterday for the Intel Core Ultra 200S Arrow Lake launch date was my extensive look at the Core Ultra 9 285K under Ubuntu Linux for that 24-core desktop processor. Under focus today is the lower-tier Intel Core Ultra 5 245K with a large variety of Lin...
2024-10-25 11:16
AMDGPU Changes Readied For Linux 6.13: Runtime Repartitioning, Many Fixes
A big batch of AMDGPU/AMDKFD kernel graphics and compute driver updates were mailed in for DRM-Next ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel cycle...
2024-10-25 09:55
Linux Support Continues For The Now-Canceled Snapdragon X Elite Dev Kit For Windows
While last week Qualcomm canceled their Snapdragon X Elite Dev Kit as a $899 USD mini PC built for Windows 11 on ARM and powered by the X1 Elite SoC, the upstreaming Linux support for it is continuing...
2024-10-25 09:00
What is .NET? Microsoft’s answer to Java is now free and open source
Initially developed as Microsoft’s answer to Java, the .NET platform has evolved into a full-fledged ecosystem used by millions of developers worldwide. This article gets you started with an overview of .NET including its main components and how it ...
2024-10-25 09:00
A look at risk, regulation, and lock-in
“We’re from the government, and we are here to help!” has been a laugh line for many years, but clearly, there are some good aspects to government involvement in how enterprises consume IT resources, including cloud computing. While major cloud ...
2024-10-25 09:00
A look at risk, regulation, and lock-in in the cloud
“We’re from the government, and we are here to help!” has been a laugh line for many years, but clearly, there are some good aspects to government involvement in how enterprises consume IT resources, including cloud computing. While major cloud ...
2024-10-25 09:00
DRM Client Library Code Ready Ahead Of Linux 6.13
The newest drm-misc-next pull request was submitted today ahead of the Linux 6.13 merge window opening up in about one month's time...
2024-10-25 07:05
FUTEX2 NUMA & Small Futexes Revived For Linux
Back in 2020~2021 there was lots of talk and work around FUTEX2 for improving the Linux kernel's Futex implementation for fast user mutex. The FUTEX2 work was driven in large part for helping Steam Play / Wine gaming by better matching the behavior of ...
2024-10-25 06:55
Cloud Hypervisor 42 Released With SVE/SVE2 Support For AArch64 Guests
Cloud Hypervisor 42.0 is out as the newest update of this open-source, Rust-based hypervisor that began as an Intel software project but is now developed by a number of different organizations from Arm to Microsoft...
2024-10-25 06:44
JetBrains offers free use of WebStorm and Rider IDEs
Select developers now are getting free access to JetBrains’ WebStorm and Rider IDEs. The company on October 24 announced it has launched non-commercial licenses for its WebStorm JavaScript and TypeScript IDE and the Rider cross-platform .NET and gam...
2024-10-24 23:20
Intel Preps OA Sync, Panther Lake Workaround & Other New Graphics Code For Linux 6.13
For the upcoming Linux 6.13 cycle there is Xe2 Ultra Joiner and GPU temperature monitoring support along with initial Xe3 graphics support for integrated form with Panther Lake among the Intel graphics driver changes expected so far. Another batch of t...
2024-10-24 20:36
Vivaldi 7.0 Delivers New UI, Dashboard Feature + More
Vivaldi 7.0 is out, and the makers describe it as not merely an update but ‘a new Vivaldi’ entirely. Those familiar with the browser will instantly see why, as Vivaldi finally gets an overdue UI redesign: there’s a new theme, pill-shaped floating...
2024-10-24 19:39
Vivaldi 7.0 Released with New UI, Dashboard Feature + More
Vivaldi 7.0 is out, and the makers describe it as not merely an update but ‘a new Vivaldi’ entirely. Those familiar with the browser will instantly see why, as Vivaldi finally gets an overdue UI redesign: there’s a new theme using pill-shaped flo...
2024-10-24 19:39
Next.js 15 arrives with faster bundler
Vercel has released Next.js 15, the latest version of the company’s React-based web framework, featuring a stable, production-ready version of the high-performance Turbopack bundler optimized for JavaScript and TypeScript. Written in the Rust langua...
2024-10-24 19:32
Some Clarity On The Linux Kernel's "Compliance Requirements" Around Russian Sanctions
When a number of Russian Linux developers were removed from their MAINTAINERS file in the Linux kernel, it was described as due to "compliance requirements" but vague in what those requirements entailed. Linus Torvalds then commented on the Russian Lin...
2024-10-24 13:15