Open-source News

Linux Lite 4.6 Officially Released, It's Based on Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS  Softpedia News

It's only supported on 64-bit PCs and ships with Linux 4.15.

How to install Virtualbox on CentOS 7/6/5 Linux  H2S Media

Here is the step by step guide to install Virtualbox software latest version on CentOS or RedHat 7/6/5 Linux using the command line.

Linux driver patches hint at AMD Renoir to support LPDDR4X memory  TechRadar

AMD's next generation APU, AMD Renoir, might come with LPDDR4X-4266 memory support with a more impressive 4266 MHz speed.

Linux driver patches hint at AMD Renoir to support LPDDR4X memory  TechRadar

Great news this weekend for APU fans out there – while the AMD Navi GPUs and Ryzen 3rd generation chips are currently taking over the computing world, ...

Linux driver patches hint at AMD Renoir to support LPDDR4X memory  TechRadar

AMD's next generation APU, AMD Renoir, might come with LPDDR4X-4266 memory support with a more impressive 4266 MHz speed.

In addition to the new hardware support and other features queued already in DRM-Next for the upcoming Linux 5.4 merge window, on Friday AMD sent in a final pull request to DRM-Next of new material ahead of this upcoming kernel cycle...

In addition to NetBSD seeing better DRM ioctl support for its Linux compatibility layer (as part of an effort towards possible Steam support) thanks to Google Summer of Code 2019, there were also Wine improvements as a result of this Google programming initiative...

The Intel Icelake Linux support has largely been squared away for months but one lingering important feature for many is the Thunderbolt support and that's now set to be introduced with the upcoming Linux 5.4 version...

The EOMA68 computer card design was novel when first talked about for integerchangeable Arm-based computer cards that could also be installed within laptops and other devices. But even after being worked on for years and raising more than $234k USD, it's still not ready yet to see the light of day...

This past week was GNOME's annual developer conference, GUADEC. Video recordings from all the presentations at this event in Thessaloniki, Greece are now online...

Audacious is an open source music player for Windows and Linux that supports Winamp skins  Ghacks Technology News

Once upon a time, the world of Windows music players was ruled by Winamp. It was resurrected a few months ago and works quite well even though it has not ...

There are many excellent resources available to teach you how to run an open source project—how to set up the collaboration tools, how to get the community engaged, etc. But there is much less out there about open source strategy; that is, about how to use well-considered open source investments to support an overall mission.

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In the Unix/Linux directory structure, the /etc directory is where host-specific system-wide configuration files and directories are located; it is a central location for all system-wide configuration files. A configuration file is a local...

In addition to the initial exFAT driver landing for Linux 5.4, also slated to land for this next kernel cycle is the VirtIO-FS file-system driver...

Microsoft Clears exFAT for Inclusion in the Linux Kernel  Redmondmag.com

Microsoft has agreed to the addition of its Extended File Allocation Table (exFAT) technology to the Linux kernel, according to a Wednesday announcement.

Wine 4.15 is out for testing this US holiday weekend. With Wine 4.15 it brings an initial implementation of Windows' HTTP.sys as the HTTP protocol stack that is a kernel-mode driver that lists for HTTP requests and passes it onto Microsoft's IIS...

New version of Windows 95 gains a snazzy user interface on Windows 10, macOS and Linux  BetaNews

Windows 95 has been enjoying a nostalgia-fueled revival in recent years. There have been concepts made for modern versions of the ancient OS on desktop ...

Back on the AMD EPYC 7002 "Rome" launch day I wrote about how AMD is working to return to open-source BIOS / Coreboot support and now there's further confirmation of their work in that direction...

How to safely delete a user account on Linux  TechRepublic

Deleting users on a Linux server should be handled with this best practice.