Open Source

🔧 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
Fairphone 6 Announced With Same-Day Linux Support Patches
Dutch electronics company Fairphone today announced their Fairphone Gen 6 smartphone as the successor to the Fairphone 5. Fairphone 6 continues to be repair-friendly and was just announced this morning while already the Linux support patches have hit t...
2025-06-25 06:20
Intel Open-Source Software Begins Adding Notices For Generative AI Use
Intel open-source software projects are beginning to relay notices that they may have been developed with support from Intel-operated generative AI solutions...
2025-06-25 06:05
PNG Spec Updated For HDR Images & Animated PNGs
While WebP and AVIF generate much of the interest these days from a tech perspective for modern image formats, the PNG image format was just updated with new features...
2025-06-25 05:42
AI benchmarking tools evaluate real world performance
A new AI benchmark for enterprise applications is now available following the launch of xbench, a testing initiative developed in-house by Chinese venture capital firm HongShan Capital Group (HSG). According to an analysis of the benchmark posted Tues...
2025-06-25 04:48
New AI benchmarking tools evaluate real world performance
A new AI benchmark for enterprise applications is now available following the launch of xbench, a testing initiative developed in-house by Chinese venture capital firm HongShan Capital Group (HSG). The challenge with many of the current benchmarks is ...
2025-06-25 04:48
KDE Continue Work on Slick New ‘First Run’ Setup Tool
Setting up KDE Plasma on a new device will soon be far more engaging, as KDE developers work on revamping the ‘first run experience’. If you’ve ever unboxed a new laptop with Windows or macOS you’ll have been greeted by a slick, guided setup to...
2025-06-25 01:38
KDE Slick New ‘First Run’ Setup Tool Taking Shape
KDE devs have revived the KISS setup tool, aiming to create a polished first-boot experience for Linux users to rival onboarding on Windows and macOS. You're reading KDE Slick New ‘First Run’ Setup Tool Taking Shape, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. D...
2025-06-25 01:38
Kotlin 2.2.0 arrives with context parameters, unified management of compiler warnings
JetBrains has released Kotlin 2.2.0, the latest version of the company’s general purpose, statically typed language perhaps best known as a rival to Java for JVM and Android development. The update previews context parameters, stabilizes guard condi...
2025-06-24 22:20
Former Btrfs Lead Developer Chris Mason Announces New "rsched" Tool
Open-source Linux developer Chris Mason who is known for being the original lead developer of the Btrfs file-system recently began hacking on a new tool that he announced today, rsched...
2025-06-24 20:27
NGINX Introduces Support for 103 Early Hints
Early Hints speed up page load times by preloading assets before the main request is completed, making your websites and web apps faster.
2025-06-24 20:19
Microsoft grants stay of execution for Windows 10 users: use OneDrive, and get one additional free year of security updates
For a while now I’ve been wondering if Microsoft would blink when it comes to Windows 10’s rapidly approaching end of support date. Only a few weeks ago, Microsoft at the very least twitched by extending support for Microsoft Office on Windows 10, ...
2025-06-24 20:06
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IceWM 3.8.0 released
IceWM, the venerable X11 window manager, has released version 3.8.0, with some small tweaks, bug fixes, and changes. The theme menu now loads faster, the processor and memory graphs use less processor cycles, among other small tidbits.
2025-06-24 19:34
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You can now move your Chrome address bar to the bottom of your Android screen.
It's now possible to customize Chrome on Android by moving your address bar to the bottom of the screen.Depending on the size of your hand and your device, one address b…
2025-06-24 17:00
Apache Software Foundation Announces Schedule for Community Over Code North America
Flagship event of the ASF unites open source and project contributors for detailed sessions, hands-on workshops, and networking opportunities Wilmington, DE –  June 23, 2025 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the global home of open source so...
2025-06-24 16:00
KDE Plasma 6.4.1 Released with Various Improvements and Bug Fixes
KDE Plasma 6.4.1 is now available as the first maintenance update to the latest KDE Plasma 6.4 desktop environment series with various improvements and bug fixes. The post KDE Plasma 6.4.1 Released with Various Improvements and Bug Fixes appeared firs...
2025-06-24 15:36
Linux Kernel's gconfig Finally Ported From GTK2 To GTK3
While the GIMP image editor received a bad rap for the amount of time it took to see a stable release based on the GTK3 toolkit rather than GTK2, only today patches have emerged for taking the Linux kernel's gconfig graphical kernel configuration utili...
2025-06-24 14:05
Fedora's FESCo To Decide Whether To Replace Upstream X.Org Server With XLibre Fork
In addition to the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) having to decide on whether i686 support should end for Fedora Linux (including multilib), another contentious proposal is on replacing the X.Org X11 Server with the controversial XLi...
2025-06-24 13:45
o3-pro may be OpenAI’s most advanced commercial offering, but GPT-4o bests it
Unlike general-purpose large language models (LLMs), more specialized reasoning models break complex problems into steps that they ‘reason’ about, and show their work in a chain of thought (CoT) process. This is meant to improve their decision-mak...
2025-06-24 12:01
mmc-utils 1.0 Released For Managing MMC Storage On Linux
Today marks the debut of mmc-utils 1.0 as the inaugural release for this de facto solution for managing MMC storage devices under Linux...
2025-06-24 11:30