Author: Yuri Gagarin

Arch Linux ISO 2024.08.01 with archinstall 2.8.1 and kernel 6.10

A new installation image of the Arch Linux distribution has quietly and unobtrusively been released. It is notable primarily for the updated installation script archinstall version 2.8.1, which includes experimental support for LVM. Additionally, some key functions in archinstall have been refactored, including suggest_single_disk_layout(), format(), and umount(), to improve the reliability of the installer. The installer also received a Finnish language translation, various bug fixes, and […]

Change of technical leader in the Go project.

The Go community marks an important event: as of September 1, Austin Clements will become the new technical lead of the Go project, including the Go team at Google and the project overall. Russ Cox, who has led the project for over 12 years, announced this transition, emphasizing that leadership is a service, not an honorary title. Cox noted that leadership changes bring […]

Microsoft has released the Azure Linux 3.0 distribution

Microsoft has released the first stable update of the new branch of the Azure Linux 3.0 distribution, which was previously known as CBL-Mariner. The distribution is evolving as a universal base platform for Linux environments used in cloud infrastructure, edge systems, and various Microsoft services. The project aims to unify the Linux solutions used at Microsoft and simplify keeping diverse Linux systems up to date. The project's developments […]

Intel will lay off more than 15% of its staff by the end of this year

An important element of Intel's quarterly report this week was the announcement of plans to reduce 15,000 employees, a move that had already been discussed at the rumor level the day before. A workforce reduction of more than 15% is part of Intel’s mid-term plan to conserve resources. By the end of 2025, the company hopes to save $10 billion for higher priority goals. As […]

The leader of the Go project decided to step down from the position

Russ Cox has announced his departure as the leader of the Go programming language development project, a position he held for the past 12 years. The reason for his departure is cited as a desire to ensure leadership change, without which the project could stagnate. It is believed that the change in leadership will create conditions for project growth, provide a new perspective, and allow […]

According to StatCounter, the share of Linux distributions has reached 4.45%

According to the StatCounter ranking, which monitors global web browser usage statistics, the share of Linux distributions among desktop systems has surpassed 4.45% for the first time. This data was collected from a counter installed on 1.5 million websites. The 4% milestone was crossed by desktop Linux distributions in March. By June, the share of Linux had reached 4.05%. Meanwhile, the popularity of the ChromeOS operating system continues to decline, with a share of […]

The report from M**a gave hope that the huge spending of big tech companies on AI will pay off

Meta✴ has published a report indicating that its financial results for the second quarter of 2024 exceeded analysts' expectations. Revenue, income, and the company's forecast for the upcoming quarter all surpassed projections. Meta✴'s revenue for the second quarter of 2024 was $39.07 billion, compared to analysts' expectations of $38.31 billion, marking a 22% year-over-year growth — the fourth […]

Google has unveiled the compact language model Gemma 2 2B, which surpasses GPT 3.5 Turbo.

Google has introduced Gemma 2 2B — a compact yet powerful artificial intelligence language model (LLM) that can compete with industry leaders despite its significantly smaller size. The new language model, containing only 2.6 billion parameters, demonstrates performance comparable to much larger counterparts, including OpenAI GPT-3.5 and Mistral AI Mixtral 8x7B. In the LMSYS Chatbot test […]

Firefox is testing the automatic activation of the 'picture-in-picture' mode.

The nightly builds of Firefox, based on which version 130 will be released on September 3, have introduced an experimental feature that allows for automatic video continuation in a floating window (picture-in-picture mode) when switching away from the tab displaying the video. In other words, if you switch to another tab while watching a video, the video will remain visible on top of the new […]

The COSI driver code for SeaweedFS has been published.

The Ænix team, in collaboration with the community, has released a new COSI driver for the distributed file system SeaweedFS, enabling the use of the COSI (Container Object Storage Interface) for integrating SeaweedFS support into Kubernetes. The driver introduces new entities, such as BucketClaim, Bucket, and BucketAccess for declared definition of object storage containers (S3 Bucket) and access management based on PVC (Persistent Volume […]

Plan to End Support for Old ARM Processors in the Linux Kernel

Arnd Bergmann, responsible for kernel packaging at SUSE, has published a plan on the Linux kernel developers' mailing list to eliminate the kernel and GCC build toolchain code that supports old ARM CPUs and associated ABIs, instruction sets, and kernel features. The plan is currently in the RFC stage, meaning it is open for community discussion. […]

Ampere announced the 512-core AmpereOne Aurora processor with an AI engine and HBM support.

Ampere Computing has announced the 512-core AmpereOne Aurora processor for data centers, along with pricing for the previously introduced 96-, 128-, 144-, 160-, and 192-core AmpereOne M chips, and provided updates on the development of the AmpereOne MX processors, which will offer up to 256 cores. The AmpereOne processors are designed for high-density data centers. They not only compete with […]

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