Open-source News

Google's Vested Interest in Linux Security  LinuxInsider.com

They say software is eating the world, but it's equally clear that open source is taking over software.

Simply put, open source is a superior approach for building and distributing software because it provides important guarantees around how software can be discovered, tried, operated, collaborated on, and packaged. For those reasons, it is not surprising that it has taken over most of the modern data stack: Infrastructure, databases, orchestration, data processing, AI/ML, and beyond.

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Linux Operating System Market 2021 Evolving Technology and Growth – Arch Linux, Elementary, Inc, Debian, IBM Corporation, Red Hat, Inc, Linux Mint  The Courier

Show CPU Details Beautifully in Linux Terminal With CPUFetch  It's FOSS

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Earlier this year we announced changes to our global sales leadership, and as Larry Stack takes on the role of executive vice president of Global Sales and Services, we’re excited to announce changes to our regional leadership team.

Linux Finally Has A Tool For Encryption Setup With Older Logitech Wireless Keyboards  Phoronix

For older Logitech keyboards that operate on a 27MHz radio frequency they may have a new lease on life as well as being more secure thanks to a new Linux utility...

EFI System Partition: Using it as /boot versus /boot/efi - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

Lilbits: Remembering LG’s innovative phones, another smartphone Linux distro, and high-performance single-board computers  Liliputing

Lilbits: Remembering LG’s innovative phones, another smartphone Linux distro, and high-performance single-board computers  Liliputing

The VirtIO-GPU Vulkan driver is looking to be upstreamed in Mesa in allowing Vulkan support for virtualized guests that in turn is handled by the host's Vulkan driver/hardware...

8 Steps For Securing Your Linux Server | Avast  Security Boulevard

AMD Instinct MI100 "Arcturus" Bits Added To Linux-Firmware.Git  Phoronix

While AMD's open-source Linux graphics driver developers have been working publicly on the "Acturus" GPU support going back to 2019 that was then introduced last year in the form of the Instinct MI100, finally today has the necessary binary firmware been upstreamed into linux-firmware.git for enabling the rest of the open-source AMD Linux driver stack...

Warzone 2100, the real-time strategy/tactics game that was originally released in 1999 as a proprietary commercial game only to then be made open-source several years later, is out this week with its version 4.0 milestone...

Linux 101: The different types of sudo and su  TechRepublic

news digest: AsyncAPI joins Linux Foundation, LG closes mobile phone business, and Python 3.9.4 and 3.8.9 - SD Times  SDTimes.com

Approved at the start of the year was the CentOS Hyperscaler special interest group that is working to cater CentOS Stream so it's more suitable by the likes of Facebook and Twitter along with other modern enterprises. The SIG just issued their Q1'2021 report about what they accomplished in this first quarter of being an approved effort and what work remains on the table...

How Linux users can enable sync service in Microsoft Edge  TechRepublic