Tag: coding

  • Make VS Code Look Good

    Make VS Code Look Good

    19 Beautiful Themes to Get a Better Visual Experience With VS CodeYour code may be ugly, but at least make them look good with these themes for the VS Code editor. Let’s be honest, there’s nothing wrong with the default Visual Studio Code theme. It’s clean, it works, and I actually used it for quite…

  • Linux Kernel Doubles in Size

    Linux Kernel Doubles in Size

    Linux kernel source expands beyond 40 million lines – it has doubled in size in a decade. Milestone passed with the debut of Linux 6.14 rc1. It seemed inevitable that the Linux kernel sources would expand beyond 40 million lines early this year. Linux 6.13 was released early in January 2025, with 39,819,522 lines, and…

  • Intel’s Kernel Test Reports 3888.9% Perf Boost

    Intel’s Kernel Test Reports 3888.9% Perf Boost

    …From changing one line of code! Intel’s Linux kernel test robot has recently reported a 3888.9 per cent performance improvement in the mainline Linux kernel after Chipzilla geeks changed one line of code. The test robot highlighted this massive improvement through its “will-it-scale.per_process_ops” scalability test case, running on an Intel Xeon Platinum (Cooper Lake) test…

  • Open Source Challenger to VS Code Appears

    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…