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After some last minute delays pushing the 15.1-RELEASE back by two weeks, FreeBSD 15.1 is now shipping as the newest stable release of this BSD operating system...
In addition to the surprising impact of /proc/filesystems read optimizations for Linux 7.2, another one of the VFS pull requests for this next kernel version is delivering some nice improvements for EXT4 and XFS around IOmap, the framework that maps file data offsets in memory to their physical locations on storage...
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Earmarked donations let GNOME fund two fellows to modernize Files (Nautilus), improve tooling, and bolster project-level governance. The post GNOME Taps Two Longtime Contributors as First Foundation Fellows appeared first on FOSS Force.
The Gnome Foundation has announced the first participants in the new Fellowship program it announced in March. Although Gnome continues to struggle with funding, it’s… The post (title) appeared first on FOSS Force.
SonicDE went from a KWin patchset to a 40-repository desktop environment in a matter of months.
The community of developers continuing to maintain Ubuntu Touch for smartphones has released the Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.0 beta ahead of the planned stable release in mid-July...
You can now use Firefox’s free built-in VPN with no data limits until August 31, 2026. Mozilla is also temporarily expanding the list of VPN server locations you can proxy traffic through, up from the current set of 5 locations to 28. The Firefox 151 release in May added the option to select from a list of VPN servers (though it’s a feature yet to be enabled for everyone), which is handy when location matters more than speed (Firefox VPN selects the fastest VPN server by default, typically the one closest). The extra server locations during the promotion: Australia, Austria, Belgium, […]
Arch Linux’s AUR is still operational, while new account registration appears blocked during ongoing cleanup work.
Linus Torvalds released the 7.1 kernel as expected on June 14. This development cycle brought in a lot of new features — and a lot of new developers as well. The time has come for our traditional look at where the changes in 7.1 came from, with a digression into how our community may be changing in general.
The newest open-source project out of Intel is the Intel Performance Skills project that is providing AI agent skills to help with CPU performance analysis and performance optimizations on Linux...
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The FreeBSD Project announced today the launch of an AI-Assisted Vulnerability Discovery Project with grant funding provided by the Linux Foundation backed Alpha-Omega project. Alpha-Mega has sponsors including Microsoft, AWS, Google, Anthrophic, OpenAI, and others who will now be helping with FreeBSD uncovering new vulnerabilities by leveraging AI...
Last month a new GCC back-end was proposed for WebAssembly to allow C/C++ code to be compiled to WASM with this GNU compiler toolchain. The GCC Steering Committee has evaluated it and approves the notion of WebAssembly back-end for GCC...
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