Open-source News

How to play Sims 4 on Linux  Gamepur

Linux Command Line Interface Introduction: A Guide to the Linux CLI  Linux Journal

Antonio Riso  Linux Journal

Mint; how to create a new user / rename home file - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

It looks like the upcoming Linux 5.10 kernel cycle will be the first to bring initial support for UEFI booting on RISC-V hardware...

Linux Administration Cookbook (normally $35.99) - free offer ends today  Neowin

Latest Update 2020: Linux Software Market by COVID19 Impact Analysis And Top Manufacturers: Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, IBM, etc. | InForGrowth  Amazing Facts

Chrome 86 is out today as the latest feature release to Google's cross-platform web browser...

New Training Course Helps Gain Expertise with Jenkins CI/CD  PRNewswire

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Offers Up Incredible Linux GPU Compute Performance Review  Phoronix

Yesterday I finally received a GeForce RTX 3080 graphics card from NVIDIA for being able to deliver the first of our Linux benchmarks on the new RTX 30 Ampere series. What is immediately clear is the huge performance uplift for OpenCL and CUDA workloads with the RTX 3080 compared to its predecessors. The raw performance and even performance-per-dollar is staggering out of the GeForce RTX 3080 with the initial tests carried out on Ubuntu Linux. Linux gaming benchmarks will be out in the days ahead but for now is a look at the RTX 3080 compute performance across dozens of benchmarks and going as far back as the GeForce GTX 980 series for comparison.

As part of my role as a principal communication strategist at an enterprise software company with an open source development model, I publish a regular update about open source community, market, and industry trends. Here are some of my and their favorite articles from that update.

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People won’t abandon Windows 7, report suggests OS is still going strong  WindowsLatest

Even with the tumultuous year due to the coronavirus pandemic, The Qt Company is still on track for delivering the Qt 6.0 toolkit release before year's end...

Last week open-source developers at Intel began sending out Linux patches for supporting hybrid CPUs particularly ahead of 12th Gen "Alder Lake" coming to market with a mix of Golden Cove and Gracemont cores. Following that article last week, more patches hit the list in exposing the hybrid CPU topology to user-space...

F2FS as the Flash-Friendly File-System has long supported transparent file-system encryption via Linux's FSCRYPT framework but now Google engineers are working on allowing the file-system metadata to also be encrypted...

How to Clear Apt Cache and Reclaim Precious Disk Space  It's FOSS

Due to DXVK recently beginning to require Vulkan Transform Feedback (VK_EXT_transform_feedback) for this Direct3D translation layer popular with Linux gamers, Intel open-source developers have gone back and now implemented transform feedback support in the Intel "ANV" driver for Haswell era "Gen 7" graphics...

Intel Adds Vulkan Transform Feedback For Aging Haswell Graphics  Phoronix

If you've been on the internet for a very long time or you're just very resourceful, you might remember an early text-sharing protocol called Gopher. Gopher was eventually displaced by the HTTP protocol, which of course is the basis for the modern World Wide Web. For many people, the "internet" and the "World Wide Web" are the same thing, because many people don't consciously do anything online that's not on the www subdomain.

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