Open-source News

Why Linux's greatest strengths are also its greatest weaknesses  Texasnewstoday.com

Why Linux’s biggest strength is also its biggest weakness  TechRadar

Exynos 2200 to beat the Snapdragon 895, tipster claims - comments  GSMArena.com

The latest achievement for Mesa's generic OpenGL implementation atop Vulkan is being able to handle OpenGL ES 3.2...

Sophos acquires Linux-focused security firm Capsule8  ITP.net

Since last year AMD has been working on VanGogh APU support for Linux initially with their graphics driver support and that has spread to other areas. It also turns out now that with VanGogh APUs will be a new Linux audio driver...

Shortly after OpenCL 3.0 was finalized last year it was enabled for Intel's open-source Compute Runtime stack (and even earlier with their Tiger Lake enablement). But since last year that OpenCL 3.0 support was marked as "beta" while last week was quietly promoted to being "production" grade...

CentOS Stream: 'I was slow on the uptake, but I get what they are doing now,' says Rocky Linux founder  The Register

Tried: RISC-V single board computer RVBoards Nezha with Debian Linux  Market Research Telecast

XWayland 21.1.2 is out today and while it may seem like "just a point release", it's quite an exciting one at that since it does bring NVIDIA hardware acceleration for XWayland when paired with their new NVIDIA 470 series driver...

AMD has published its first code drop of the quarter for their open-source "AMDVLK" Vulkan driver that is derived from their official driver sources but making use of the AMDGPU LLVM compiler back-end rather than their proprietary shader compiler...

Why Whitehurst is stepping away from IBM  ZDNet

Fixes to the Plasma Wayland session continue to be quite steady work in the KDE camp even with the support becoming quite mature and good enough for day-to-day use...

The Linux 5.14 char/misc updates landed this week in the kernel. The "char/misc" area continues to serve as a growing catch-all portion of the code-base not jiving well elsewhere in other subsystems...

Linux 5.14 Lands Updates For Its "Various Driver Subsystems Mushed Together" Tree  Phoronix

LLVM 12.0.1 is available today as the only planned point release to this spring's release of LLVM 12...

Windows 11 WSL2 performance compares very favorably with bare metal Ubuntu Linux in benchmarks  BetaNews

A security policy is a set of permissions that govern access to a system, whether the system is an organization, a computer, a network, an application, a file, or any other resource. Security policies often start from the top down: Assume nobody can do anything, and then allow exceptions.

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As distributed and cloud computing adoption increase, things are intrinsically getting harder to debug. This article shares a situation where you would expect a library to safeguard against different versions of an API. However, it didn't and it caused unexpected behavior that was very hard to debug. This might be a useful example of how ripping out layers of abstractions is sometimes necessary to get to the root cause of a problem in a systematic manner.

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There are a lot of benefits to starting an open source project. In general, open source projects benefit from collaboration, adoption, transparency, lower ownership costs, development best practices, more contributors and reviewers, and better quality.

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