Open Source

NodeJS 18 LTS EOL extended from April 2025 to May 2032 on Ubuntu
Canonical provides up to 12 years of security patching for open source software packaged and published through Ubuntu Pro repositories. These security commitments differ from upstream open source software maintainers, like the OpenJS Foundation.
2025-06-26 00:00
NVIDIA Engineer Now Co-Maintainer Of "NOVA" Open-Source Rust GPU Driver
The NOVA-Core driver as the basis for a modern, Rust-written open-source NVIDIA GPU driver for the upstream Linux kernel and eventual successor to the reverse-engineered Nouveau DRM driver has a new co-maintainer...
2025-06-25 20:37
KDE Update Turns Off Potentially Seizure Triggering Effect
KDE Plasma 6.4 has received its first point release, which includes an important fix to reduce the risk of inducing seizures in photosensitive users. Now, it’s not like KDE desktop was tripping the light fantastic, but the ‘highlight window’ effe...
2025-06-25 19:00
KDE Update Turns Off Effect That Could Cause Seizures
KDE Plasma 6.4.1 turns off a visual desktop effect which could, in rare cases, post a risk of triggering seizures in users with photosensitive conditions. You're reading KDE Update Turns Off Effect That Could Cause Seizures, a blog post from OMG! Ubunt...
2025-06-25 19:00
Firefox 141 Promises to Use Less Memory on Linux Systems, Beta Out Now
Firefox 141 open-source web browser is now available for public beta testing with various new features and improvements. Here’s what to expect! The post Firefox 141 Promises to Use Less Memory on Linux Systems, Beta Out Now appeared first on 9to5Lin...
2025-06-25 18:01
Open Source Developers Saving the World with Code, Not Capes
By Brian Proffitt, ASF VP Marketing & Publicity The impact of climate change has made itself felt globally, and the impact is most keenly felt by those who live and work in the developing nations. But while many analysts and policy makers think about t...
2025-06-25 15:00
AVX-512's Enormous Advantage For AMD EPYC 4005 Series Performance
The AMD EPYC 4005 "Grado"" processors launched by AMD in May for entry-level servers offer downright amazing value, performance, and power efficiency over the Intel Xeon 6300 / Xeon E-2400 series competition. Intel's top-of-stack Xeon 6300 (Xeon 6369P)...
2025-06-25 15:00
Proposal To Ship XLibre As X11 Server Packages On Fedora Linux Is Withdrawn
The controversial proposal to replace the upstream X.Org X11 server packages on Fedora Linux with XLibre is not going to happen... At least not for now. The change proposal has been withdrawn prior to being voted on by the Fedora Engineering and Steeri...
2025-06-25 14:33
Mozilla Formally Discontinues Its DeepSpeech Project
One of the interesting projects engaged in by Mozilla that directly wasn't related to their web browser efforts was DeepSpeech, an embedded/offline speech-to-text engine. To not much surprise given the lack of activity in recent years, last week they f...
2025-06-25 14:15
Google unveils Gemini CLI for developers
Google has introduced Gemini CLI, an open-source AI agent that brings Gemini AI capabilities right to a developer’s terminal. Unveiled June 25, Gemini CLI is a command-line AI workflow tool that connects to a developer’s tools, understands the dev...
2025-06-25 13:00
Pyrefly and Ty: Two new Rust-powered Python type-checking tools compared
What is most striking about Python’s latest wave of third-party tooling is that they aren’t written in Python. Instead, many of the newer tools for project management, code formatting, and now type checking, are written in Rust. This isn’t a swi...
2025-06-25 09:00
Software development meets the McNamara Fallacy
The McNamara Fallacy is the idea that it is an error to make decisions purely on measurements or quantitative data. Robert McNamara was the US Secretary of Defense during most of the 1960s, during the first half of the Vietnam War. He came to the pos...
2025-06-25 09:00
RADV Driver Introduces Limited Support For NVIDIA Cooperative Matrix Extension
The Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" has merged support for the VK_NV_cooperative_matrix2 NVIDIA Vulkan extension but it's hidden by default and only partially supported with a focus on helping FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 and VKD3D-Proton...
2025-06-25 09:00
Native integration now available for Pure Storage and Canonical LXD
Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, and Pure Storage, the IT pioneer delivering enterprise-grade all-flash storage, have partnered to introduce a native integration between LXD and Pure Storage FlashArray. This collaboration allows organizations to c...
2025-06-25 08:38
Intel Preps Linux PTC "Throttling Control Interface" To Run Hotter For Better Performance
With the Linux 6.16 kernel Intel enabled the new Platform Temperature Control (PTC) interface as part of their int340x thermal driver. Now ahead of the Linux 6.17 kernel Intel PTC is being extended to support a Throttling Control Interface for those th...
2025-06-25 08:10
🔧 Deep dive into sosreport: understanding the data pack layout in Fedora & RHEL
This article will describe the content and structure of the sosreport output. The aim is to improve its usefullness through a better understanding of its contents. 🧰 What is sosreport? sosreport is a powerful command-line utility available on Fedora...
2025-06-25 08:00