Open-source News

Minisforum launches Deskmini U850 and U820 Windows 10 and Linux PCs  BetaNews

Ubuntu Core 20 Linux Gets Bolstered Security, Full Disk Encryption for Embedded, IoT  EnterpriseAI

The Internet Archive exists thanks to Ubuntu and the Linux communities  BetaNews

Linux Foundation Launches Industry Collaboration with Magma to Accelerate Deployment of Wireless Networks  AiThority

With Mesa 21.0 releasing soon here is a look at the new features for this quarter's release of these open-source Vulkan / OpenGL driver implementations.

A new collaborative tech project to enable better network connectivity  TechRepublic

Sent in today to DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 5.12 kernel cycle were "fixes" but some interesting items worth noting in this batch...

More AMDGPU Patches For Linux 5.12 Point To First Sign Towards PCIe 5.0, FreeSync HDMI  Phoronix

The open-source Broadcom graphics driver code most notably used by Raspberry Pi devices will be seeing at least slightly better performance come next quarter's Mesa 21.1 release...

Capsule8 Launches New Channel Partner Program  GlobeNewswire

Linux on Apple M1 Project Reveals New Details About M1 System Architecture  Tom's Hardware

Linux on Apple M1 Project Reveals New Details About M1 System Architecture  Tom's Hardware

Capsule8 Launches New Channel Partner Program  GlobeNewswire

Global Linux Computer Industry Research Report 2020: Market Size, Share, Growth, Trends, Applications, Demand, Key Companies and Forecast 2028 – KSU | The Sentinel Newspaper  KSU | The Sentinel Newspaper

In addition to VKD3D-Proton working on support for DXR ray-tracing another high profile Direct3D 12 feature being implemented on top of Vulkan is support for variable rate shading...

Linux sudo vulnerability also affects macOS  BetaNews

Linux Operating System Market: Know about Influencing Factors by Focusing on Top Companies – The Bisouv Network  The Bisouv Network

DT warms to Linux Foundation's Magma mobile core stack  Mobile Europe

Applications very often save data. Whether your users create simple text documents, complex graphic layouts, game progress, or an intricate list of customers and order numbers, software usually implies that data is being generated. There are many ways to store data for repeated use. You can dump text to configuration formats such as INI, YAML, XML, or JSON, you can write out raw binary data, or you can store data in a structured database.

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Software libraries are a longstanding, easy, and sensible way to reuse code. This article explains how to build libraries from scratch and make them available to clients. Although the two sample libraries target Linux, the steps for creating, publishing, and using these libraries apply to other Unix-like systems.

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