Open Source

IGT GPU Tools 2.0 Released For Helping To Develop DRM Drivers
IGT GPU Tools began as a set of tools by Intel for working on their Linux Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel driver but with time has been broadened by the open-source community to support non-Intel drivers/hardware. IGT GPU Tools 2.0 was released o...
2025-03-14 06:22
Java hiring plans slip, survey says
Slightly more than half of Java shops surveyed (51%) have plans to add more Java developers in the coming year, down from 60% in 2024, according to a report by Perforce, a provider of Java development and devops tools. And while 34% plan to increase t...
2025-03-14 02:51
Haiku gets new malloc implementation, removes Gopher support from its browser
We’ve got the Haiku activity report covering February, and aside from the usual slew of bug fixes and minor improvements, there’s one massive improvement that deserves attention. waddlesplash continued his ongoing memory management improvements, fi...
2025-03-13 23:53
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WinRing0: why Windows is flagging your PC monitoring and fan control apps as a threat
When I checked where Windows Defender had actually detected the threat, it was in the Fan Control app I use to intelligently cool my PC. Windows Defender had broken it, and that’s why my fans were running amok. For others, the threat was detected in ...
2025-03-13 23:22
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KDE splits KWin into kwin_x11 and kwin_wayland
One of the biggest behind-the-scenes changes in the upcoming Plasma 6.4 release is the split of kwin_x11 and kwin_wayland codebases. With this blog post, I would like to delve in what led us to making such a decision and what it means for the future of...
2025-03-13 22:50
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Bodhi Linux Shows Off New Theme, Revived Modules
A ‘fresh new look’ is heading to Bodhi Linux, the Ubuntu-based Linux distribution built around the Moksha desktop, a fork of Enlightenment 17. Noting that the look of recent releases has leaned towards the dark side—no, not that one, Darth—the ...
2025-03-13 22:10
Linux Patch Posted For Syncing The Kernel Code With Zstd 1.5.7
The Zstandard (Zstd) compression code sadly hasn't been regularly synced with the latest upstream Linux kernel sources but a patch posted this evening goes ahead and syncs the in-kernel Zstd code against the Zstd 1.5.7 state...
2025-03-13 20:55
Shotcut 25.03 Beta Released For Advancing This Free Software Video Editor
Shotcut 25.03 Beta is out today as the newest test release for this open-source video editing solution...
2025-03-13 20:27
VIDEO: The Thunderbird Design System
In this month’s Community Office Hours, Laurel Terlesky, Design Manager, is talking about the new Thunderbird Design System. In her talk from FOSDEM, “Building a Cross-Platform, Scalable, Open-Source Design System,” Laurel describes the Thunderbi...
2025-03-13 19:07
DXVK 2.6 Adds NVIDIA Reflex Support, Improvements for Many Games
DXVK 2.6 Vulkan-based implementation of D3D9, D3D10, and D3D11 for Linux / Wine is now available for download with improvements for several games. The post DXVK 2.6 Adds NVIDIA Reflex Support, Improvements for Many Games appeared first on 9to5Linux - d...
2025-03-13 17:40
The Apache Software Foundation Announces New Top-Level Project
Newest TLP provides high performance shuffling services for cloud native architectures Wilmington, DE –  March 13, 2025 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the global home of open source software the world relies on, today announced that Apach...
2025-03-13 16:00
DXVK 2.6 Released With NVIDIA Reflex Support, Numerous Improvements
Released today ahead of a potential Proton 10.0 release for re-basing Valve's Steam Play tech atop the recent Wine 10.0 release, DXVK 2.6 is out today as the newest iteration of this Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 implementation atop the Vulkan API for enhan...
2025-03-13 15:20