Open-source News

Fedora Linux 34 Now Generally Available  Yahoo Finance

IBM reaffirms support for open-source devs after internal Linux kernel maintainer argument goes public  TechRepublic

CentOS Alternative AlmaLinux to Get Commercial Support from CloudLinux  Business Wire

How to Install and Run a VNC Server on Ubuntu Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Fedora 34 Released As A Hugely Exciting Update For This Linux Distribution  Phoronix

It's Fedora 34 day! Fedora 34 is now officially available and it's quite exciting on the feature front especially with the changes to be enjoyed in Fedora Workstation 34...

GCC 11.1 is out today as the first stable release of the GNU Compiler Collection 11...

GCC 11.1 Released With Initial Work For Intel AMX / Sapphire Rapids, More C++20/C++23  Phoronix

Red Hat Powers the Next Wave of Edge Computing with Latest Version of the World's Leading Enterprise Linux Platform  StreetInsider.com

Red Hat Sets Sights on Delivering the First Continuously Certified Linux Platform for Road Vehicles  Yahoo Finance

Arm published today a set of blog posts outlining more power/performance and feature details of their forthcoming Neoverse N2 and Neoverse V1 platforms...

1. Linux kernel security uproar: What some people missed  TechRepublic
2. University of Minnesota responds to Linux security patch requests  ZDNet
3. Linux Foundation demands action from university found meddling with kernel  TechRadar
4. The Linux Foundation Has a Few Demands for Banned University  Tom's Hardware
5. University Of Minnesota Apologizes To Unwavering Linux Community Over Kernel Kerfuffle  Hot Hardware
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Linux kernel security uproar: What some people missed  TechRepublic

While Fedora Workstation has been moving along with its Btrfs file-system usage and beginning to make greater use of its functionality, Red Hat does continue investing heavily in Stratis-Storage as their path forward for next-generation Linux storage with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Today marks the release of Stratis 2.4...

Stratis 2.4 Released With Multi-Threaded Daemon, Root File-System Support  Phoronix

Linux Computer Market 2021 Is Rapidly Increasing Worldwide in Near Future | Top Companies Analysis- Dell, System76, Purism, Slimbook, TUXEDO Computers, etc.  Clark County Blog

The "char/misc" continues to be the random catch-all subsystem for the Linux kernel for drivers and buses not fitting well into other areas of the Linux kernel. Increasingly char/misc is hosting various accelerator/offload devices with the kernel still not yet introducing its own formal accelerator subsystem. With Linux 5.13 the "char/misc" pull continues to be heavy on a wide assortment of changes...

Char/Misc Brings Binder Freeze, PVPANIC, Habana Labs Improvements To Linux 5.13  Phoronix

While Zink implements OpenGL 4 and is running an increasing number of games with good performance, one of the simple "demos" it hasn't been able to render correctly in recent years has been glxgears. But that milestone is now crossed once again with the latest Mesa code...

Manipulating the Ubuntu dock to keep favorite apps handy  Network World