Open-source News

May Pine64's Low cost Linux Smartphone Change Your PC?  Editorials 360

Pine64 Launches PinePhone At Approx Price of $199 - Mobilephone  Technology Times Pakistan

MSI Cubi 5 is a brilliant Linux mini desktop computer (yes, it runs Windows 10 too)  BetaNews

Global Linux Computer Market Growth, Size, Analysis, Outlook by 2020 – Trends, Opportunities and Forecast to 2025  3rd Watch News

Best Linux web hosting services of 2020  Tom's Guide

Linux Operating System Market Comprehensive Study With Key Trends, Major Drivers And Challenges 2020-2026  3rd Watch News

Remove Firefox Search Contest scam from Linux - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

This mobile with Linux can also work as a PC  Checkersaga

In addition to this week bringing an AMDGPU pull request with new GPU support and initial Intel DG1 graphics card support as material for DRM-Next to in turn land with Linux 5.9 in the weeks ahead, there was also another DRM-Misc-Next pull with further material to these smaller drivers...

The Small DRM Drivers See Another Round Of Updates For Linux 5.9  Phoronix

Kodak Printer 18OO-3O8-1474 Toll free Phone Number - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

When it comes to open-source audio software, the Ardour digital audio workstation and Audacity audio editor are the two flagship offerings. But Zrythm continues advancing as another promising open-source digital audio workstation project. Zrythm is currently in a late alpha stage with its newest release this weekend but a beta appears to be on the horizon...

Riding off Friday's Wine 5.13 release, an updated Wine-Staging is now available coming with 669 patches atop the code-base...

Wine-Staging 5.13 Comes With 669 Patches Atop Upstream Wine  Phoronix

Intel's IWD wireless daemon for Linux systems has been seeing work in recent days on integration around WiFi Display support, a.k.a. WFD / Miracast...

The Corona-Warn-App is an awesome example of how governments and public administrations can use open source software development to help citizens while simultaneously advancing the technology ecosystem. The app helps trace infection chains of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) in Germany.

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The Lutris open-source gaming platform manager that also makes it easier installing Windows games via Steam is now employing the Valve-backed VKD3D-Proton fork for Direct3D 12 over Vulkan...

Lutris Updated With D3D12 DLL Provided By VKD3D-Proton  Phoronix

While DragonFlyBSD has its own, original HAMMER2 file-system, for those needing to access data from EXT2/EXT3/EXT4 file-systems, there is a brand new "ext2fs" driver implementation for this BSD operating system...

For those looking for another rolling-release Linux distribution to try and one whose roots trace back to the legendary Mandrake Linux, OpenMandriva has been working to establish its own rolling-release spin for those preferring the latest software packages as opposed to their conventional releases. Additionally, OpenMandriva is nearing the end of its i686 repository offering while continuing to work with Wine and 32-bit games...