Open-source News

Linux Foundation Public Health creates the Global COVID Certificate Network  HIT Consultant

Install Samba on Linux Mint to share files with Windows - Linux Shout  H2S Media

IdRamp Joins Linux Foundation Public Health Cardea Project Steering Committee  Yahoo Finance

IdRamp Joins Linux Foundation Public Health Cardea Project Steering Committee  PRNewswire

With last week's launch of the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and this week's launch of the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti there have been plenty of Linux gaming benchmarks on Phoronix. But for those interested in these new RTX 30 Ampere graphics cards for GPU compute or rendering workloads, in this article are many benchmarks on that front compared to various RTX 20 and RTX 30 series graphics cards.

The $149 Smartphone That Could Bring The Linux Mobile Ecosystem to Life  VICE

Linux system service bug lets you get root on most modern distros  BleepingComputer

Cloud4C Awarded the Linux and Open Source Databases Migration to Microsoft Azure Advanced Specialization  Devdiscourse

Cloud4C Awarded the Linux and Open Source Databases Migration to Microsoft Azure Advanced Specialization  PR Newswire India

Real-Time Support "PREEMPT_RT" For Linux Held Up Due To Lack Of Funding  Phoronix

While there was kernel talk of merging the PREEMPT_RT code in 2020 for this real-time functionality for the Linux kernel, among other times in the past that has yet to happen. These "RT" patches have long been maintained out-of-tree but it turns out that while in the past it was seemingly close for merging, that effort has stalled for lack of funding...

The seventh release candidate of OpenZFS 2.1 is now available for testing while it looks like soon it will cross the finish line as the latest feature release for this open-source ZFS file-system implementation for Linux and FreeBSD systems...

Following the last AMDVLK update at the end of May, AMD has released AMDVLK 2021.Q2.4 as their newest open-source AMD Radeon Vulkan driver release...

Linux Foundation Public Health prepares global COVID-19 passport as Linus Torvalds encourages vaccine uptake  BetaNews

Realme's first tablet and laptop to be unveiled on June 15 - comments  GSMArena.com

How to Install KDE Plasma GUI on Linux Mint 20.1 Desktop - Linux Shout  H2S Media

Following the bump in April from Cloud-Hypervisor v0.14.x to v15, Cloud-Hypervisor 16.0 was released on Thursday for this Intel-led open-source hypervisor that is leveraging Rust and focused on cloud and security use-cases...

Editing files is a staple on any operating system. Whether you want to make a note about something, write a letter to a friend, or update a system configuration file—you need an editor. And FreeDOS provides a user-friendly text editor called (perhaps unimaginatively) "FreeDOS Edit."

Editing files

The simplest invocation of FreeDOS Edit is just EDIT. This brings up an empty editor window. The patterned background suggests an empty "desktop"—a reminder that you aren't editing any files.

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HATEOAS is a difficult-to-pronounce acronym that stands for "Hypertext As The Engine Of Application State." Invented by Roy Fielding in the year 2000, HATEOAS was proposed as an architectural style for network-based software systems.

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7-Year-Old Polkit Flaw Lets Unprivileged Linux Users Gain Root Access  The Hacker News