By connecting powerful language models like GPT-4o and Claude Sonnet 3.5 to real-world tools, the open-source tool SWE-agent allows them to autonomously perform complex tasks: from fixing bugs in live GitHub repositories and solving cybersecurity challenges, to browsing the web or executing custom workflows.
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OpenMandriva Lx 6.0 is here featuring Linux kernel 6.14, KDE Plasma 6, GNOME 48, LXQt 2.2, and a brand new Server Edition.
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The term service mesh has been widely used over the last several years to refer to technology that helps to manage communications across microservices and applications. In the cloud-native world, arguably the first implementation of a service mesh came from Buoyant with the open-source Linkerd technology in 2015. Over the last 10 years, Linkerd has grown as a core project within the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Today the project is out with Linkerd 2.18, continuing the technology’s decade-long evolution with improvements focused on operational simplicity and real-world production scenarios.
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Arch Linux now has an official image for Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). You can now run Arch Linux directly from Windows 10 and 11 systems.
oday, The Document Foundation joins the open source software and open standards community in celebrating the 20th anniversary of the ratification of the Open Document Format (ODF) as an OASIS standard. Two decades after its approval in 2005, ODF is the only open standard for office documents, promoting digital independence, interoperability and content transparency worldwide.
Wine 10.7 is out today as the newest bi-weekly release of this open-source software for running Windows games and applications on Linux and other platforms…
Sent out a few minutes ago was the latest batch of AMDGPU graphics and AMDKFD compute kernel driver feature patches for DRM-Next in getting ready for the Linux 6.16 merge window opening in a few weeks. This pull request contains a big new feature: the initial albeit currently experimental support for AMDGPU user mode queues…
New plan may remain too restrictive for some developers. Redis, the company behind the popular value-key database of the same name, has returned its main system to an open source license, although the move failed to satisfy some critics.…
Data loss is a nightmare for any computer user, and Linux users are no exception. Despite the robust architecture of Linux operating systems, disasters can strike in the form of accidental deletions, corrupted partitions, or failing storage devices. Whether you’re a system administrator, developer, or everyday Linux user, understanding how to recover data can be the difference between a minor inconvenience and a major setback.
KDE Plasma open-source developers were meeting the past week in Graz, Austria to plot out fundamental changes and improvements moving forward for this great desktop. Among the changes decided on were ending their practice of Plasma LTS releases, enhancing the telemetry capabilities to be more useful, and more…
KDE Plasma open-source developers were meeting the past week in Graz, Austria to plot out fundamental changes and improvements moving forward for this great desktop. Among the changes decided on were ending their practice of Plasma LTS releases, enhancing the telemetry capabilities to be more useful, and more…
Here’s what people were reading the most on FOSS Force during the month of April, 2025.
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After a somewhat tumultuous switch to the
Server Side Public License (SSPL) in March 2024, Redis has backtracked
and is now offering Redis under the
Affero GPLv3 (AGPLv3) starting with Redis 8, CEO Rowan Trollope
announced. The change back to an open-source license was led by Redis creator Salvatore
“antirez” Sanfillipo, who also contributed the new Vector Sets feature for
the release. He said:
I’ll be honest: I truly wanted the code I wrote for the new Vector Sets data type to be released under an open source license. Writing open source software is too rooted in me: I rarely wrote anything else in my career. I’m too old to start now. This may be childish, but I wrote Vector Sets with a huge amount of enthusiasm exactly because I knew Redis (and my new work) was going to be open source again.
I understand that the core of our work is to improve Redis, to continue building a good system, useful, simple, able to change with the requirements of the software stack. Yet, returning back to an open source license is the basis for such efforts to be coherent with the Redis project, to be accepted by the user base, and to contribute to a human collective effort that is larger than any single company. So, honestly, while I can’t take credit for the license switch, I hope I contributed a little bit to it, because today I’m happy. I’m happy that Redis is open source software again, under the terms of the AGPLv3 license.
Since last year’s license switch, though, the Valkey project has sprung up as a fork under
the original 3-clause BSD license.
Last year Redis made the much criticized move to Redis Source Available License v2 and Server Side Public License v1 (SSPL) licensing. The move was widely panned by the open-source community and led to the Linux Foundation forking it as Valkey and also other forks like Redict coming about. In the months since many Linux distributions have switched from Redis to Valkey. Now Redis Labs announced today that with the Redis 8.0 release, they are adding AGPLv3 to the licensing mix…
Calico got its start in 2016 as a networking technology for cloud-native environments, serving as a plug-in to the Kubernetes Container Networking Interface (CNI) component. Over the last decade, the technology has continued to expand, supporting more use cases and evolving network requirements.The open-source Calico 3.30 update pushes the project further with multiple technical advancements including flow logging, enhanced observability and visualization, staged network policies for pre-implementation testing, and hierarchical policy management with tiers.
Ubuntu 25.10 “Questing Quokka” is now formally open for development…
An organization that among other things provides hosting for over 500 free and open source projects from all over the world suddenly finds itself needing a helping hand.
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The Document
Foundation is celebrating
the 20th anniversary of the ratification of the Open Document Format
(ODF) as an OASIS
standard.
Two decades after its approval in 2005, ODF is the only open
standard for office documents, promoting digital independence,
interoperability and content transparency worldwide. […]To celebrate this milestone, from today The Document Foundation
will be publishing a series of presentations and documents on its blog
that illustrate the unique features of ODF, tracing its history from
the development and standardisation process through the activities of
the Technical Committee for the submission of version 1.3 to ISO and
the standardisation of version 1.4.
We’ll see if messaging client can keep up with sibling browser. Mozilla has lobbed out Firefox 138, and subsidiary MZLA’s Thunderbird 138 isn’t far behind. The venerable messaging client is picking up the pace and finally syncing its stride with the browser that spawned it.…
With the recently released GCC 15 (GCC 15.1) compiler besides adding new language features, enhancements to help developers in debugging build failures, and other refinements, there is the never-ending quest of compiler performance optimizations. Since the recent GCC 15.1 release candidate I’ve been testing this annual compiler feature release on more hardware, including several AMD 5th Gen EPYC “Turin” servers to great success compared to the prior GCC 14 stable series.