- Privacy Policy
- Our Service Commitment
- Red Hat Delivers Accessible, Open Source Generative AI Innovation with Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI
- Is Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Virtualization the Best Alternative to VMware Amid Rising Costs?
- Top 10 Stories About Compute Engines, Linux of 2024 (So Far) - ITPro Today
UR Solutions News
Open-source News
Linux 5.11 Is Looking Like A Wild And Bumpy Ride On AMD CPUs So Far
A few days ago I noted nice AMD EPYC performance improvements with PostgreSQL when running on Linux 5.11 compared to prior kernels. I've confirmed that for even more AMD EPYC servers now that the PostgreSQL uplift is there, but other workloads are unfortunately regressing for both Ryzen and EPYC. Here's the start of an exciting Christmas benchmarking adventure looking at this change with Linux 5.11.....
FreeBSD Completes Its Transition From Subversion To Git For Development
The past several days FreeBSD has been working to complete its migration from their development being done with Subversion to instead using the Git distributed revision control system as used by most other open-source projects...
Intel Preparing Linear Address Masking Support (LAM)
A few days ago there was a glibc commit mentioning Intel "LAM" and now the updated Intel documentation sheds more light on this forthcoming processor feature...
FreeType Merges New "SDF" Renderer For High Quality Text Rendering In Games, Etc
As a Christmas gift to font enthusiasts, the FreeType font rasterization engine today merged its SDF renderer...
Darktable 3.4 Released For Leading Open-Source RAW Photography Software
Darktable 3.4 is out in time for dealing with any of your RAW holiday photos...
Happy Holidays As We End Out 2020 Plus One Last Phoronix Premium Special
To those celebrating any year-end holidays, Happy Holidays / Merry Christmas. It's been a hell of a year and 2021 will hopefully be better. In any event even if not celebrating any end of year holidays or other events, there still is daily Phoronix content to come...
5 reasons to use the Atom text editor
Beautiful open source text editors are pretty common these days, between Adobe’s Brackets, Microsoft’s VSCode, and GitHub’s Atom. Each of these seem to offer similar experiences: a modern interface, easily installable plugins, and a big brand-name sponsor. And they’re all actually really good. So what sets Atom apart from any other hyper-modern text editor?
read more
10 ways we learned Rust in 2020
The Rust language is getting more and more popular, as the combination of memory safety and zero-cost abstractions makes it a good fit for handling many tasks.
In addition, frequent releases, consideration for development ergonomics, and high-quality documentation are leading more people to learn Rust.
Whether you're new to Rust or have been using it for a while, you'll learn something new in Opensource.com's top 10 articles about Rust in 2020.
read more
Why I rewrote my open source virtual reality server
Look! I wrote a virtual reality (VR) server and published it on GitHub! But why?
Well, I'm your typical introverted hacker. I like to play with technology. Whenever something new comes out, I have to lay my hands on it and get them dirty. So, when I gifted myself Oculus Quest last year, I played a few games before I wanted to code something myself. And guess what? Everything is proprietary!
read more