Open-source News

3 ways to install Emacs text editor on Ubuntu 20.04  H2S Media

The evolution of Open Source - a retrospective as Linux turns 30-years-old  DIGIT.FYI

Easy way to Install PHP 8.0 on Debian 11 Bullseye Server  H2S Media

A number of Phoronix readers have been asking about some fresh file-system comparisons on recent kernels. With not having the time to conduct the usual kernel version vs. file-system comparison, here are some fresh benchmarks looking at the Btrfs, EXT4, F2FS, and XFS file-system benchmarks on a speedy WD_BLACK SN850 NVMe solid-state drive...

Linux 5.14 SSD Benchmarks With Btrfs vs. EXT4 vs. F2FS vs. XFS  Phoronix

The Linux kernel has already sported SM4 cipher algorithm implementation optimized for AES-NI and AVX while now an Alibaba engineer has contributed an AVX2 optimized variant for even greater performance...

The 8 Best Productivity Apps for Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

AMD Adds 17 PCI IDs to Linux Kernel Driver, Teasing a Possible RDNA 2 Refresh  Tom's Hardware

For nearly the past decade there has been calls for deprecating the Liux kernel's frame-buffer "FBDEV" device code though the code remains within the kernel. While these days most display drivers are DRM-based even in the embedded world, a lot of FBDEV code still ends up in kernel builds even when just wanting to use DRM's FBDEV emulation layer. But a patch proposal out of Red Hat would further split-up the FBDEV core support to allow less of it to be built...

On top of all the PCI IDs in place already for the AMDGPU Linux kernel graphics driver, another 17 PCI IDs were added in a new patch for this open-source Radeon graphics driver...

Every so often, I need to do some calculations related to dates. A few days ago, a colleague asked me to set up a new project definition in our (open source, of course!) project management system. This project is to start on the 1st of August and finish on the 31st of December. The service to be provided is budgeted at 10 hours per week.

So, yeah, I had to figure out how many weeks between 2021-08-01 and 2021-12-31 inclusive.

This is the perfect sort of problem to solve with a tiny Groovy script.

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The Linux kernel is turning 30 this year! If you're like us, that's a big deal and we are celebrating Linux this week with a couple of special posts.

Today we start with a roundup of responses from around the community answering "What Linux kernel module can you not live without? And, why?" Let's hear what these 10 enthusiasts have to say.

I guess some kernel developers will run away screaming when they hear my answer. Still, I list here two of the most controversial modules:

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Linux 5.14 set to boost future enterprise application security  TechCrunch

How to Update Linux to Debian Bullseye on Your Chromebook  Beebom

Linux Software Market Report 2021 | Industry Insights, Share, Size, Growth, Trends And Outlook 2028 | Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon – UNLV The Rebel Yell  UNLV The Rebel Yell

While Ubuntu 21.10 isn't being released for another two months, the release schedule for Ubuntu 22.04 has been published that is rather notable in being the next bi-annual long-term support (LTS) release...

PipeWire, for managing audio/video streams on Linux and proving itself to be a viable replacement to PulseAudio and JACK, is out with a new update...

The 10 Best Video Conferencing Apps for Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Google promoted Chrome 94 to beta status today with some exciting changes...

Started back in 2018 was an effort by the NetBSD project to update their operating system WiFi drivers by re-syncing more code from FreeBSD and making various improvements. Three years later the work has yet to be merged but after stalling for some time is back to being worked on by interested developers...