Intel’s restructuring leaves key open-source work without a home

Troubled Chipzilla’s decision to sack around 24,000 workers has not only left its product lines short-staffed, it has gutted some of the essential work keeping Linux support alive for Intel hardware.

Performance-tuned distro joins Deep Link in the corporate graveyard

Intel has axed Clear Linux, its high-performance Linux distro that spent the last decade squeezing every drop of speed out of x86-64 chips.

Sparks open-source exodus

Oracle's relentless licensing changes are pushing organisations into the open-saucy arms of openjdk, according to a new survey.

Schleswig-Holstein doesn’t want teams

The German state of Schleswig-Holstein is revolting and ditching the software King of the world, Microsoft, from its public sector.

Linux boss blames autocorrect for typo mayhem

IT's Mr Sweary, Linus Torvalds has binned his low-profile keyboard and rejoined the noisy mechanical brigade.

No one liked maintaining it or knew what it meant

KDE Plasma is ditching its long-term support releases in favour of an extended patch schedule for regular updates, after conceding its current LTS system is a bit of a sham.

Radeon might be next

AMD has open-sourced its GPU-IOV Module which lets Instinct accelerators play nice with virtual machines—and hinted it's coming to Radeon cards too. This means SR-IOV support on client GPUs might finally claw its way out of the void.

 
Asay says it’s Linux all over again

MongoDB's developer relations boss Matt Asay has come out swinging in InfoWorld with an opinion piece declaring DeepSeek had escaped from its national boundaries and become an Open Sauce juggernaut.

Open-Source faces existential crisis

Database company Neo4j is attempting to convince the US legal system that "open source" means whatever they want it to mean.

EA throws a bone to gamers

Electronic Arts (EA) has released the source code for several classic Command & Conquer titles.