Open-source News

Attivo Expands Active Directory Protection from Unmanaged Devices, Including Mac, Linux, IoT/OT  Business Wire

Intel's big open-source Linux graphics driver engineering team has submitted their last feature pull of new material for inclusion into the upcoming Linux 5.18 kernel. Intel engineers remain very busy on the discrete GPU enablement both for the DG2/Alchemist Arc graphics cards as well as the forthcoming compute accelerators...

TheServerHost Launched Cheapest Dubai VPS Server Hosting Plans offering Linux and Windows OS  EIN News

While much of Intel's Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" enablement has been squared away for a while now within the Linux kernel and related components, there are a few holdouts only now coming about in patch form and working their way to the mainline kernel with Sapphire Rapids production ramping up in the coming months...

How to Install PHP on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal Fossa  Linux Shout

SPEC Adds Linux Edition of SPECviewperf 2020 v3.0 Benchmark  AnandTech

Another round of drm-misc-next changes has been sent in to squeeze into DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 5.18 merge window opening later this month...

The AMDGPU Linux kernel driver is preparing a new interface for allowing user-space to submit work to the GPU that will be executed across multiple engines simultaneously...

VMware engineers are in the process of enabling 3D acceleration within their VMWGFX driver on AArch64 so those making use of VMware virtualization software on 64-bit Arm will be able to enjoy accelerated 3D guest virtual machines...

Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation Releases Linux  GlobeNewswire

Three Billion Google Chrome Users Warned of 'High' Level Attack: 28 Attacks Across Windows, Linux, and Mac  Tech Times

In 2022, open source is becoming more and more of a household name. But for many years, open source was known as the scrappy underdog of the enterprise IT landscape. Open source has been around for decades in some form or fashion, but it wasn't even until the late 1990s that it was formalized with its name.

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SPEC Finally Updates SPECViewPerf For Linux With SPECViewPerf 2020 v3.0  Phoronix

In recent years, interest in using open source collaboration platforms to enhance business productivity increased. Proprietary software has managed to overwhelm customers with a maze of licensing requirements and pay-to-play features that many companies don't want to manage. On the other hand, open source offers alternatives that give companies the liberty of choice and allow new businesses to enter existing markets easier with more control over upfront costs.

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XDA Basics: Does the Dell XPS 13 Plus run Linux?  XDA Developers

AMD developers had a busy day with merging into mainline LLVM for the AMDGPU shader compiler is a new Vega/CDNA "GFX940" GPU target as well as a GFX1036 RDNA GPU target...

Last month I covered the issue of Lenovo's ACPI Platform Profile support for AMD-powered laptops was busted on Linux. The platform profile controls were exposed but in reality did not work. Fortunately, fixed up support for this feature is now on the way to the Linux kernel for letting users choose between better performance or extended battery life and cooler operating device...

The 5 Best System Cleaning Apps for Your Linux Desktop  MUO - MakeUseOf

Linux-based Set Top Box Market Exploration and Value Chain Analysis with Coming Trends Till 2028 – corporate ethos  corporate ethos

KDE/Qt-focused consulting firm KDAB has been developing CXX-Qt as a new project to improve integration of the Rust programming language with the Qt toolkit...