Open Source

GitHub unveils coding agent for GitHub Copilot
GitHub has introduced a new coding agent for its GitHub Copilot AI-powered programming assistant. Embedded into GitHub, the agent launches its own development environment with GitHub Actions to implement a task or issue. Introduced May 19, the GitHub ...
2025-05-20 17:17
On the relationship between Qt and KDE
Volker Hilsheimer, chief maintainer of the Qt project, says he has learned lessons from the painful Qt 5 to Qt 6 transition, the importance of Qt Bridges for using Qt from any language, and the significance of the relationship with the Linux KDE deskto...
2025-05-20 14:28
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VIDEO: Talking MZLA with Ryan Sipes
In this month’s Community Office Hours, we’re chatting with our director Ryan Sipes. This talk opens with a brief history of Thunderbird and ends on our plans for its future. In between, we explain more about MZLA and its structure, and how this co...
2025-05-20 13:05
Why is Microsoft offering to turn websites into AI apps with NLWeb?
Microsoft took the covers off a new open protocol that will allow enterprises to turn their websites into AI-based applications. Announced at its ongoing Build developer conference, NLWeb, short for Natural Language Web, is designed to help enterprise...
2025-05-20 10:19
Cloud asset management: A crucial missing ingredient
Most companies are in a race to diversify their cloud resources, motivated by the benefits of scalable, innovative, and effective operational capabilities. Despite dedicating large percentages of the budget to implement migration strategies, hybrid so...
2025-05-20 09:00
What is geopatriation?
Geopatriation refers to the relocation of workloads and applications from global cloud hyperscalers to regional or national alternatives due to geopolitical uncertainty.
2025-05-20 08:11
Telum II at Hot Chips 2024: mainframe with a unique caching strategy
Mainframes still play a vital role in today, providing extremely high uptime and low latency for financial transactions. Telum II is IBM’s latest mainframe processor, and is designed unlike any other server CPU. It only has eight cores, but runs them...
2025-05-19 22:27
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Two weeks with AR glasses and Linux on Android
I recently learned something that blew my mind; you can run a full desktop Linux environment on your phone. That’s a graphical environment via X11 with real window management and compositing, Firefox comfortably playing YouTube (including working aud...
2025-05-19 22:22
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Microsoft Open-Sources Windows Subsystem for Linux
Well here’s a turn up: Microsoft just released the source code for Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), making its nifty fully open source after almost a decade of development. The tech giant announced the news at this year’s BUILD event, where it ma...
2025-05-19 19:49
Rust 1.87 shines on anonymous pipes, architecture intrinsics
The Rust Release Team has shipped Rust 1.87, an update to the fast and safe programming language that features accommodations for anonymous pipes and architecture intrinsics. The new release was announced May 15, the same day as Rust’s 10th annivers...
2025-05-19 19:47
Microsoft releases WSL as open source, announces CLI text editor to replace the MS-DOS Editor
Today we’re very excited to announce the open-source release of the Windows Subsystem for Linux. This is the result of a multiyear effort to prepare for this, and a great closure to the first ever issue raised on the Microsoft/WSL repo: Will this be ...
2025-05-19 19:17
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Microsoft aims to improve agent versatility with Copilot Studio updates
Microsoft is adding new features and capabilities to Copilot Studio, its low code tool for creating generative AI-based autonomous agents, in an effort to improve the overall versatility of agents for enterprises. The more versatile the agents, the mo...
2025-05-19 16:00
Render a Guitar Pro score in real time on Linux
Tuxguitar is a quite powerful application written in a mixture of Java / C. It is able to render a score in real time either via Fluidsynth or via pure MIDI. The development of Tuxguitar started in 2008 on Sourceforce and after a halt in 2022, the proj...
2025-05-19 14:02
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Vivaldi 7.4 Update Adds Keyboard Shortcut Controls
A new version of the Vivaldi web browser is available to download, carrying changes said to make our collective “everyday browsing smoother, faster, and just a little more delightful.” How does Vivaldi 7.4 make browsing the increasingly gamified, a...
2025-05-19 12:49
Vivaldi 7.4 Update Adds New Keyboard Shortcut Controls
A new version of the Vivaldi web browser is available to download, carrying changes said to make our collective “everyday browsing smoother, faster, and just a little more delightful.” How does Vivaldi 7.4 make browsing the increasingly gamified, a...
2025-05-19 12:49
OpenAI launches Codex AI agent to tackle multi-step coding tasks
OpenAI has announced the release of Codex, an AI coding agent it said was designed to help software engineers write code, fix bugs, and run tests. According to the company, Codex is powered by codex-1—a variant of OpenAI’s o3 model optimized for s...
2025-05-19 12:22
Rethinking virtualization: open source alternatives for resellers
Organizations facing uncertainty in the virtualization market have multiple open source options to choose from, including OpenStack for large private clouds and MicroCloud for smaller setups.
2025-05-19 09:11
What comes after Stack Overflow?
For more than a decade, Stack Overflow has been the go-to forum for developers seeking answers to coding questions. At its peak in the mid-2010s, the site saw more than 200,000 new questions each month. Those days are gone. Since the arrival of AI ass...
2025-05-19 09:00