Open-source News

IBM COBOL for Linux on x86 1.1 brings COBOL capabilities to Linux – OSnews  OS News

This quarter's Mesa 21.1 feature release will continue to offer more improvements for Lavapipe, the CPU-based software Vulkan implementation. The latest today is Vulkan 1.1 now being advertised...

Sway 1.6 is official today as the newest version of this i3-inspired Wayland compositor...

Mesa 21.0.2 is out today as the latest bi-weekly point release to the Mesa3D open-source Vulkan/OpenGL drivers...

MXLinux is the most downloaded Linux desktop distribution, and now I know why  TechRepublic

Here is a look at the AVX / AVX2 / AVX-512 performance on the Intel Core i9 11900K "Rocket Lake" when building a set of relevant open-source benchmarks limited to AVX, AVX2, and AVX-512 caps each time while also monitoring the CPU package power consumption during the tests for looking at the performance-per-Watt in providing some fresh reference metrics over AVX-512 on Linux with the latest Intel "Rocket Lake" processors.

Linux-based Set Top Box Market Professional Survey 2021 by Manufacturers, Share, Growth, Trends, Types and Applications, Forecast to 2028 – The Bisouv Network  The Bisouv Network

Linux Operating System Market Insights, Growth Forecast to 2026  Business-newsupdate.com

Not only is the Linux kernel moving to allow Rust code to be optionally used within the kernel, but Google is now allowing Rust code to be used for system programming work on Android's low-level operating system components too...

How to Easily Transfer Files between Linux, Windows, Mac, Android, and iPhone  How-To Geek

The official open-source AMD Radeon Vulkan driver, AMDVLK, is out today with its first update of the new quarter...

In the open-source world there can even be much fragmentation and multiple implementations around something as central as parsing of EDID blobs for monitor (display) information and that's only been made worse by the growing number of Wayland compositors...

Wayland Is Driving Fragmentation Around EDID Parsing - A Call To Fix That  Phoronix

Microsoft previews its open source Java distribution for Windows, macOS and Linux — Microsoft Build of OpenJDK  BetaNews

'Kubernetes is the next Linux': SUSE's Rob Knight on containerisation  TechCentral

The latest area being worked on with VirtIO for para-virtualized drivers for Linux with a focus on KVM is Bluetooth support...

VirtIO Bluetooth Driver On The Way To The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

Some folks like to rearrange furniture. Other folks like to try new shoes or redecorate their bedroom on the regular. Me? I try out Linux desktops.

After drooling over some of the incredible desktop environments I've seen online, I got curious about one window manager in particular: bspwm.

read more

Whenever you're working with a group of programmers on a project, whether small or large, handling changes between multiple Git branches can become difficult. Sometimes, instead of combining an entire Git branch into a different one, you want to select and move a couple of specific commits. This procedure is known as "cherry-picking."

This article will cover the what, why, and how of cherry-picking.

So let's start.

read more

On Linux, it's common to create shell scripts to automate repetitive tasks. Similarly, on FreeDOS, the open source implementation of old DOS operating systems, you can create a batch file containing several FreeDOS commands. Then you can run your batch file to execute each command in order.

read more