Intel kills off Clear Linux in cost-cutting purge
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.
Oracle Java audits hit nearly three quarters of users
Sparks open-source exodus
Oracle's relentless licensing changes are pushing organisations into the open-saucy arms of openjdk, according to a new survey.
German state expels Microsoft
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.
Torvalds ditches soft keyboard for clackety clack
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.
KDE Plasma kills off its half-baked LTS
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.
AMD Open Sauces GPU virtualisation for Instinct
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.
DeepSeek is an open saucy freight train
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.
Court could shoot GNU
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.
Command & Conquer source code released
EA throws a bone to gamers
Electronic Arts (EA) has released the source code for several classic Command & Conquer titles.
Red Hat Plans to integrate AI with IBM's Granite engine
Hats off to AI
The Red Hat team has announced plans to integrate artificial intelligence with IBM's open-source Granite engine to enhance developer tools such as integrated development environments (IDEs) and create an AI-powered Code Assistant. The team is also working on streamlining AI acceleration in Toolbx and ensuring Fedora users have access to tools like RamaLama.