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Servo Announces Sponsorship Tiers To Get More Organizations Backing This Browser Engine

Phoronix - Fri, 11/21/2025 - 19:00
The Servo open-source web browser engine has been making good progress in recent times. Long outside the confines of Mozilla and working as a Linux Foundation Europe project, Servo has been advancing thanks to Igalia and other open-source developers while getting by on around ~$5.7k USD per month thanks mostly to donations from individuals. Servo has now announced sponsorship tiers in hopefully to solicit more donations from larger organizations...

Intel Compute Runtime 25.44.36015.5 Brings More Performance Optimizations & Features

Phoronix - Fri, 11/21/2025 - 09:47
Released tonight was the Intel Compute Runtime 25.44.36015.5 as their roughly monthly update to this open-source GPU compute stack providing Level Zero and OpenCL support for Intel's integrated and discrete graphics hardware...

Friday Five — November 21, 2025

Red Hat News - Fri, 11/21/2025 - 08:00
Techaisle - Red Hat’s AI Platform Play: From "Any App" to "Any Model, Any Hardware, Any Cloud"Red Hat's AI 3 strategy aims to be the "Linux of enterprise AI," offering an open, standardized platform to solve the complexity and cost of AI adoption by connecting any model, any hardware, any cloud. Learn more Red Hat Introduces Project Hummingbird to Accelerate Cloud-Native Development and “Zero-CVE” StrategiesProject Hummingbird is an early access program providing minimal, hardened container images for subscription customers. The goal is to accelerate cloud-native development by offerin

Shaping the future of open source talent in APAC with Red Hat Academy

Red Hat News - Fri, 11/21/2025 - 08:00
The Asia-Pacific (APAC) region is witnessing an unprecedented surge in demand for skilled professionals in open source technologies, a field largely new to many students. Red Hat Academy is at the heart of bridging this knowledge gap, redefining how students gain practical skills and connect with industry opportunities. With over 1,360 academic institutions across 25 countries and approximately 37,000 students trained so far in 2025, Red Hat Academy is more than a program—it’s a catalyst for impact, creating pathways for the next generation of open source innovators.As a Red Hat Technical

Dell Now Shipping Laptop With Qualcomm NPU On Linux Ahead Of Windows 11

Phoronix - Fri, 11/21/2025 - 06:23
Dell announced today that their new Pro Max 16 Plus laptop with a Qualcomm discrete NPU is now shipping... That is if you are running Ubuntu Linux while the Windows 11 pre-load option is expected in early 2026. An exciting twist with the Linux version of the Dell Pro Max 16 Plus shipping before Microsoft Windows...

Canonical Gets Flutter Up And Running On RISC-V For Ubuntu

Phoronix - Fri, 11/21/2025 - 05:04
Canonical has been bullish on RISC-V with Ubuntu being one of the most common Linux distributions endorsed by RISC-V board vendors. Canonical also has been bullish on the Flutter toolkit for crafting their desktop installer UI and other modern UI/app interfaces. But these two together haven't panned out with Flutter not currently supporting RISC-V. Canonical has submitted pull requests now for enabling RISC-V support with Flutter...

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