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Open Source Challenger to VS Code Appears
Open Source ‘Eclipse Theia IDE’ Exits Beta to Challenge Visual Studio Code. Some seven years in the making, the Eclipse Foundation’s Theia IDE project is now generally available, emerging from beta to challenge Microsoft’s similar Visual Studio Code editor, with which it shares much tech. The Eclipse Theia IDE, part of the Eclipse Cloud DevTools Read more
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Can Raspberry Pi Run Linux? What You Need To Know
So you’re on the hunt for a single-board computer (SBC) for your embedded systems or networking projects. In your search, you’ve probably run across dozens of recommendations pointing to the Raspberry Pi, and it’s for good reason. This board may be small at 85 by 56 mm, but it’s pretty mighty and versatile. In fact, Read more
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Intel’s Software Optimizations for Xeon CPUs
Intel’s Linux Software Optimizations Still Pay Off For Xeon 6700E “Sierra Forest” E-Core CPUs. When testing Intel’s aggressive software Linux optimizations shipped by way of their in-house Clear Linux distribution, I am most often testing it on their high core count Xeon processors with AVX-512… Over the years in dozens of Phoronix articles there have Read more
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This week in KDE: Everything, I think
We spent an enormous amount of time working on bug-fixing and polishing tasks for Plasma 6.1 this week. It was a big release, and there were some rough edges around the new edit mode. So we put quite a bit of time into making it integrate more seamlessly with the other existing modes, and generally Read more
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Arch Linux’s Text-Mode Installer Gets Experimental LVM Support
Archinstall 2.8.1 is now available as the latest update to Arch Linux’s menu-based installer. The Archinstall 2.8.1 text-mode installer for the popular Arch Linux distribution was released today as a hefty update introducing initial LVM support and many other improvements. Archinstall 2.8.1 is the first release of Arch Linux’s installer to offer LVM (Logical Volume Read more
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LF forms trust for advancing decentralisation
The Linux Foundation has announced plans to establish the Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust (LF Decentralized Trust), a new umbrella organisation aimed at supporting the advancement of decentralised technologies. Building on the foundation’s existing blockchain and digital identity projects, LF Decentralized Trust will encompass the Hyperledger project portfolio and host new open source software, communities, standards, Read more
