Tag: technology
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New Features on Mint 22.1
The 6 Exciting Features in Linux Mint 22.1 ‘Xia’ Release!Linux Mint’s latest upgrade is available. Explore more about it before you try it out! Linux Mint 22.1 ‘Xia’ is a release that takes a different naming scheme for a change because they didn’t find the names starting with “W” good enough 😄 While the official…
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Linux 6.13 launches this January 19
Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Kernel on 16 January 2025The Most Exciting Kernel Optimizations, New Hardware Support & Other Linux 6.13 Features! With Linus Torvalds expected to release Linux 6.13 stable this coming Sunday, 19 January, here’s a reminder about the most exciting features, performance optimizations, and new hardware support arriving for this first…
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NTSYNC Driver Ready for Linux 6.14
Written by Michael Larabel, January 12. Set to make the upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel cycle even more exciting is that it looks like the completed NTSYNC driver will be ready for merging. The NTSYNC driver enhances Wine / Proton (Steam Play) gaming by better matching the Windows NT synchronization primitives to allow for better gaming…
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China to launch RISC-V CPU in 2025
Chip war: Chinese scientists vow to launch breakthrough RISC-V open-source CPU in 2025Efforts by the Chinese Academy of Sciences form part of Beijing’s push to reduce reliance on foreign semiconductor technology. A team from China’s top government research academy pledged to produce this year a processor based on the open-source chip-design architecture RISC-V, as Beijing advances…
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State of Open Source in 2025
What Will Matter Most This Year? Navigating the pressures on the open source software world must become our collective mission in 2025, argues Amanda Brock of OpenUK. 2024 didn’t fail to disappoint in delivering another roller coaster of a year for open source software. Open source isn’t just code today, it’s a philosophy that we…
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Win10 Users Urged To Upgrade
Cybersecurity firm ESET is urging Windows 10 users to upgrade to LINUX or Windows 11 to avoid a “security fiasco” as the 10-year-old operating system nears the end of support in October 2025. “It’s five minutes to twelve to avoid a security fiasco for 2025,” explains ESET security expert Thorsten Urbanski. “We strongly advise all…
