MSBuild 2023 is Microsoft’s annual affair like the Google I/O that just ended, where they announce the latest and the upcoming features in their products and hold in-depth sessions for the developers and the wider community audience. This year, the Microsoft Build 2023 keynote session...
Category: Operating Systems
Simply put, Windows Copilot is an AI assistant to Windows 11. Windows Copilot will be integrated directly into Windows 11 and available to open and use from the taskbar across all apps and programs. Once open, the Windows Copilot side bar stays consistent across your...
Now update linux offline with yum offline-upgrade
posted by: Nishant Kaushal
May 20, 2023
With the recent GA announcements of RedHat 8.8 as well as its upstream alternatives Rocky Linux 8.8 and AlmaLinux 8.8 one can now finally update Linux offline! With this enhancement, you can apply offline updates to RHEL by using the new yum offline-upgrade command. There...
Linux Kernel 6.3 Released with support for new Intel VPUs and AMD Automatic IBRS
posted by: Nishant Kaushal
April 25, 2023
Linux kernel 6.3 include a new DRM accelerated driver for Intel VPU (Versatile Processing Unit) that supports VPU IP 2.7 integrated into 14th Generation Intel “Meteor Lake” client CPUs, Rust code support for x86_64 user-mode Linux, AES-SHA2-based encryption for the NFS file system, and support...
Fedora 38 is now out of beta. It introduces two new spins, one with the Budgie desktop environment and one with the Sway tiling window manager. Its GNOME spin moves to GNOME 44. Fedora 38 also removes restrictions and whitelisting from its flatpak implementation. Fedora...
Canonical has finally made a public launch of Ubuntu 23.04, codenamed the Lunar Lobster, available for enterprises, work and play as it boasts improvements for enterprise developer desktops, gaming enhancements, a revamped installer, and an expanded focus on gaming. The most unique feature to be...
We have been tracking the development and release of Android 14 since its first developer preview. Today, the second Developer Preview of Android 14 gets released, building on the work of the first developer preview of Android 14 from last month with additional enhancements to...
Google has just released the first developer preview of Android 14, named the Upside Down Cake! As we all know, Google has long discontinued the naming of Android versions (since Android 10). However, they do still continue to name them atleast for their internal use...
Designed by India’s premier institute, IIT Madras, funded by Indian Government, developed by JandK Operations Private Limited (JandKops), free and open-source, is getting an alternative to the most dominant mobile operating systems of Android and iOS. An operating system, that boasts of complete privacy, with...
Android SDK Extensions – Extend new functionality to existing Android devices
posted by: Nishant Kaushal
January 14, 2023
Android, since version 10, has been supporting Modular System Components. This allows to expedite functional and security updates to the Android ecosystem outside of major API level releases and make new functionality backward compatible on already-released Android versions. End-user devices can receive updates to these...