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As Nextcloud increasingly positions itself as a software platform, its new Academy aims to bring more developers into the fold. The post Nextcloud Launches Academy to Help Developers Build Apps appeared first on FOSS Force.
The ISO is not dead, but more direct alternatives are way more convenient—too bad they don't apply to everything.
Zig 0.17 advances the systems programming language with ELF linker work, build system changes, LLVM 22, glibc 2.44, and more.
Darktable 5.6.2 lands with OpenCL fixes, crash corrections, Windows usability improvements, memory leak fixes, and updated camera presets.
Darktable 5.6.2 open-source RAW image editor is now available for download with white balance presets for Leica SL3-P and Sony Alpha 7R VI cameras, as well as various bug fixes.
A slim, silver NVMe enclosure that turns your spare SSD into fast external storage. Excellent if you have Thunderbolt 5 on your machine.
Linus Torvalds just released Linux 7.3-rc7 as we work toward the stable Linux 7.3 kernel release in two weeks...
This week was the surprising and unfortunate decision of Siemens shutting down the OpenRadioss project as the four year old open-source project started by Altair Engineering with their prominent Radioss finite element solver. Siemens didn't just end the project but they shutdown the GitHub repository that hosted the open-source code and removed other resources that had built around it. Fortunately, there's a new community fork of OpenRadioss as OpenCourant...
Pangolin 1.24 introduces full-tunnel Exit Nodes, Linux Subnet Router support, and major client improvements across desktop and mobile.
Some project maintainers have received emails that they will no longer get any more free credits from Digital Ocean.
Linux's Multi-Gen LRU "MGLRU" has already achieved nice performance gains for Linux in recent years by optimizing page reclaims and improves performance under memory pressure. The new MGLRU-FG patches aim to take things further...
Kagi ends development of Orion Browser for Linux and Windows, with plans to open-source both versions and hand them over to the community.
In addition to NVIDIA announcing their Display Config Server project at XDC 2026 in Toronto, at this annual developer's conference they also presented their findings on scientific testing of X.Org vs. Wayland latency...
Last month Fujitsu formally announced their MONAKA CPU as a 144 core Arm-based server processor geared for AI infrastructure. This comes after two years of seeing various Monaka patches to the GCC compiler and other open-source components. Now that MONAKA is announced, we are seeing more patches surface for the Linux kernel with this week seeing several workarounds for MONAKA CPU bugs...
We are nearing the cut-off of new Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem material for the upcoming Linux 7.4 cycle. AMD this week sent in another feature pull to DRM-Next that is moving over to mostly bug fixing but does contain the enablement of some new GPU intellectual property blocks for upcoming graphics hardware...
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