Open-source News

Red Hat to release Enterprise Linux version 8.4  DataCenterNews North America

Fedora Linux 34 has landed, and it's an exquisite take on the desktop  TechRepublic

One of the most significant underlying changes with the recent release of Ubuntu 21.04 is the default GNOME Shell desktop environment is running the Wayland-based session by default rather than the traditional X.Org Server session. But what does this mean for the Linux gaming performance on Ubuntu 21.04? Here are some (X)Wayland vs. X.Org benchmarks.

Linux Computer Market Is Booming Worldwide | Dell, System76, Purism, Slimbook, TUXEDO Computers  SoccerNurds

In recent months there has finally been more open-source projects traditionally focused on NVIDIA GPU compute beginning to offer mainline Radeon support using the open-source ROCm stack. Following the recent PyTorch 1.8 with ROCm support, CuPy 9.0 was released last week with that traditionally CUDA focused library now supporting AMD's ROCm stack...

JingPad A1 - the world's first Consumer-level Linux tablet soon launching on Indiegogo  Yahoo Finance

JingPad A1 - the world's first Consumer-level Linux tablet soon launching on Indiegogo  PRNewswire

Linux kernel bug could allow cyberattackers to access sensitive data  TechGenix

Linux kernel bug opens door to all manner of attacks  Techradar

Linux kernel bug opens door to all manner of attacks  Techradar

Linux kernel bug opens door to all manner of attacks  Techradar

Linux kernel bug opens door to all manner of attacks  TechRadar

Linux Software Market– Global Industry Size, Shares and Forecast 2026| Google, Samsung, Microsoft, Amazon, Novell – Clark County Blog  Clark County Blog

NVIDIA today released their 465.27 Linux driver as the newest stable build in this current driver series...

Microsoft buys Flatcar Container Linux creator Kinvolk  ZDNet

MS Office Alternative Software for Linux Market SWOT Analysis 2021 by Top Manufacturers: Google, WordPerfect, Apple Inc, SoftMaker (FreeOffice), Shimo, Yozodcs – NeighborWebSJ  NeighborWebSJ

While a lot of new features and improvements have been accumulating for the Linux 5.13 kernel with the ongoing merge window, one of the unfortunate aspects of this new kernel is that the AMD Zen CPU energy driver "amd_energy" is indeed being removed...

AMD Energy Driver Booted From The Linux 5.13 Kernel  Phoronix

The most popular Fedora Linux in years rolls out  ZDNet

Taking place virtually this week has been the International Workshop on OpenCL (IWOCL) and SYCLcon. From these events are a lot of interesting presentations for those interested in GPU compute, heterogeneous programming, and industry API efforts...