Open Source

Ubuntu Maker Canonical Generated Nearly $300M In Revenue Last Year
A decade ago Canonical did around $81 million in revenue (2014) with a head count of around 337 at the company behind Ubuntu Linux while their Linux desktop efforts were still gaining a footing with OEMs/ODMs pre-loads, within enterprise desktop enviro...
2025-06-26 14:47
Cut data center energy costs with bare metal automation
Data centers don’t have to be power-hungry monsters. With smart automation using tools like MAAS, you can reduce energy waste and operational costs, and make your infrastructure greener, without sacrificing performance or flexibility.
2025-06-26 14:38
Rust 1.88 Released With Improvements For Naked Functions, Chaining Let Statements
Last month saw the release of Rust 1.87 that celebrated ten years of the Rust programming language while out today is Rust 1.88 that continues iterating the language with new features...
2025-06-26 14:38
Ubuntu 25.10 Snapshot 2 is Now Available to Download
The second monthly snapshot of Ubuntu Questing Quokka (which will formally become Ubuntu 25.10 when released on October 9 2025) is now available for testing. Last month Canonical’s engineers announced plans to change development builds building throu...
2025-06-26 14:30
Mesa 25.2 RADV Driver Merges Support For AV1 Vulkan Video Encode
Published last November as part of Vulkan 1.3.302 was the VK_KHR_video_encode_av1 extension for adding AV1 video encoding to the Vulkan Video API. Ahead of next quarter's Mesa 25.2 release, the open-source Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" has merged its AV1...
2025-06-26 12:28
Mir 2.21 Released With Cursor Scaling & Mouse Keys Support
Mir 2.21 is out today for this Ubuntu/Canonical project to serve as a set of libraries used to simplify the development of Wayland-based shells/environments...
2025-06-26 11:18
Designing a metadata-driven ETL framework with Azure ADF: An architectural perspective
In today’s data-driven landscape, integrating diverse data sources into a cohesive system is a complex challenge. As an architect, I set out to design a solution that could seamlessly connect on-premises databases, cloud applications and file system...
2025-06-26 11:12
Oracle Linux 10 Reaches GA, Available With Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 8.1
Building off the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 (RHEL 10.0) just over one month ago, Oracle today announced the general availability of Oracle Linux 10.0...
2025-06-26 10:39
Eclipse Foundation releases Jakarta EE 11
Moving forward with the development of its enterprise Java application platform, the Eclipse Foundation has released Jakarta EE 11 Platform, which promises simpler data access and streamlined testing processes. Java 21 support also is featured. Rolled...
2025-06-26 10:00
Build the future of *craft: announcing Starcraft Bounties!
Our commitment to building a thriving open source community is stronger than ever. We believe in empowering impactful contributions, and today, we’re excited to launch a new pilot initiative that puts this vision directly into your hands: the Starcra...
2025-06-26 09:58
How to use route constraints in ASP.NET Core minimal APIs
When working with minimal APIs in ASP.NET Core, you can define routes for the HTTP verbs using mapping methods such as MapGet, MapPut, MapPost, and MapDelete. While these methods allow you to route each request to the correct destination, you should a...
2025-06-26 09:00
Bringing post-quantum cryptography to Windows
Much of what we do to keep our online lives secure relies on public-key cryptography and its complex mathematical operations. At the heart of these techniques are sets of one-way functions that generate the public and private keys used to encrypt and ...
2025-06-26 09:00
Firefox 141 Beta Lowering RAM Use On Linux But Still Benchmarking Behind Chrome
Following this week's release of Firefox 140, Firefox 141 was promoted to beta. Most exciting for Linux users with next month's Firefox 141 release is finally lowering system RAM use! I've been running some benchmarks looking at the impact.
2025-06-26 08:41
Ubuntu 25.10 Snapshot 2 Released
Last month Canonical announced plans for releasing monthly Ubuntu Linux development snapshots and was followed by the Questing Snapshot 1 release in the road toward Ubuntu 25.10. Out today is the Questing Snapshot 2 release for incorporating the latest...
2025-06-26 07:47
AMD CPUID Faulting Support Looks To Be Coming For Linux 6.17
As a follow-up to the article a few weeks ago about AMD enabling User CPUID Faulting support for Linux, that code looks like it's ready to go for being introduced in the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel...
2025-06-26 06:30
Bochs DRM Panic Support, Panfrost Adds Mediatek MT8370 SoC For Linux 6.17
Maxime Ripard at Red Hat sent out the latest weekly pull of "drm-misc-next" changes to DRM-Next for queuing of these kernel graphics/display driver changes ahead of the Linux 6.17 merge window opening up in about one month's time...
2025-06-26 06:18
Blender 5.0 Introducing HDR Support On Linux With Vulkan + Wayland
The upcoming Blender 5.0 3D modeling software application is introducing High Dynamic Range (HDR) display support on Linux when making use of Wayland -- no X11 support for HDR -- and Vulkan graphics accelerator...
2025-06-26 05:55