Canonical Makes Multipass VM Manager Fully Open-Source
Canonical's Multipass lightweight VM manager for not only Linux systems but also Windows and macOS is now considered fully open-source. Multipass started out as a means of running an Ubuntu environment with ease from a single command on major operating...
Dumping mainframes for cloud can be a costly mistake
A certain Fortune 500 financial institution decided to fully embrace the cloud. Executive memos indicated that all their new initiatives would be “cloud-first.” Teams were encouraged to re-architect everything, including mission-critical transacti...
Rust-powered: Two new Python tools to watch
This week in Python brings us a toe-to-toe showdown between two Rust-powered Python type checking tools. We also have a gentle introduction to type hinting, a look at the perils—and promises—ahead for a free-threaded, no-GIL Python, and a shocking...
NVIDIA Blackwell Support Coming Together For NVK Vulkan In Mesa
Merged for the current Linux 6.16 cycle was initial NVIDIA Blackwell GPU support with the Nouveau open-source driver. NVIDIA Blackwell GPU support was tacked onto the existing Nouveau kernel driver rather than having to wait for the new "NOVA" driver a...
Rust 1.88 adds support for naked functions
Rust 1.88 has been released, featuring support for writing naked functions, as well as backing for Boolean literals. The update of the popular fast and safe programming language was announced June 26 by the Rust Release Team. Current Rust users can ge...
AMD Platinum Sponsor of DebConf25
We are pleased to announce that AMD has committed to sponsor DebConf25 as a Platinum Sponsor. The AMD ROCm platform includes programming models, tools, compilers, libraries, and runtimes for AI and HPC solution development on AMD GPUs. Debian is an of...
Snow, a new classic Macintosh emulator
The world isn’t short of classic Macintosh emulators, but one more certainly cannot hurt. Snow emulates classic (Motorola 680×0-based) Macintosh computers. It features a graphical user interface to operate the emulated machine and provides extensive...
PNG gets its first specification update in 20 years
Jokes aside, this is exciting news. PNG is back to its former glory after its progress stalled for over two decades. Did you know the U.S. Library of Congress, Library and Archives Canada, and the National Archives of Australia recommend PNG? It is imp...
ASF Plus One Newsletter: June 2025
Summer may be upon us, but there is no shortage of activity happening across the ASF universe. The schedule for Community Over Code North America has been released including keynote speakers. There are only 2 more days to take advantage of early bird r...
Accelerating data science with Apache Spark and GPUs
Apache Spark has always been very well known for distributing computation among multiple nodes using the assistance of partitions, and CPU cores have always performed processing within a single partition. What’s less widely known is that it is poss...
