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Xsystems has introduced TrueNAS 25.10 "Goldeye", which can be connected to super-fast storage systems with NVMe-oF. It also ...

“Over the past decade or so, Wind River itself has become keenly aware of the need to transition to new technologies, and has ...

For FreeBSD 15, coming in December, the developers have implemented Zero-Trust Builds and Reproducible Builds.

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Rust is already a hard requirement on all Debian release architectures and ports except for alpha, hppa, m68k, and sh4 (which ...

PCMag experts have been testing and rating video and photo editing tools for decades. Now, for the first time, our savvy ...

Ubuntu Summit The Register FOSS desk sat down with Canonical's vice-president for engineering, Jon Seager, during Ubuntu Summit earlier this month. This is a heavily condensed version of our ...

Windows, macOS, Linux How on earth does Blackmagic Design make DaVinci Resolve so capable as a video editor yet still offer a free version? The hope is that as users get better at making videos, ...