Open-source News

Landing in Mesa 21.0 on Tuesday was support for OpenGL tessellation shaders (ARB_tessellation_shader) with the Zink Gallium3D code implementing generic OpenGL support atop Vulkan...

First Release Of Rocky Linux Will Arrive After March 2021  Fossbytes

Global Linux Software Market Top Players Analysis By 2026: Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, IBM, Oracle, Novell, RedHat, DELL, Samsung, Microsoft etc.  Factory Gate

Merged into the Linux kernel back in 2015 was the TraceFS file-system to better address Linux tracing use-cases that previously were handled atop DebugFS. Now LibTraceFS has reached version 1.0 as the user-space library around TraceFS after being spun out of Trace-CMD earlier this year...

LibTraceFS 1.0 Released For Interacting With Linux's Tracing File-System  Phoronix

LibTraceFS 1.0 Released For Interacting With Linux's Tracing File-System  Phoronix

Xfce 4.16 managed to ship in 2020 as one of the original goals for this release after the much delayed Xfce 4.14 series. Xfce 4.16 comes with many incremental improvements to this GTK3 desktop environment...

Xfce 4.16 Released With Numerous Improvements To This Lightweight GTK3 Desktop  Phoronix

Microsoft continues pushing new code into Mesa 21.0 as its efforts around Mesa continue to ramp up principally around GPU acceleration within Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) as well as allowing the likes of OpenGL and OpenCL to function under Windows 10 in the absence of native GL/CL drivers by using Mesa to translate the APIs for consumption by Direct3D 12 drivers...

How to Move Linux Files With the Mv Command  MakeUseOf

Fedora 34 Planning To Make Use Of Systemd-OOMD To Improve Low Memory Experience  Phoronix

At the end of November systemd 247 released with the new Out-of-Memory Daemon (systemd-oomd) and for the Fedora 34 release next year that will likely be enabled by default for all spins...

How to install Tor Browser on Ubuntu 20.04 or 18.04 LTS - Linux Shout  H2S Media

The State of Safety Certification of Platforms  Embedded Computing Design

Haiku as the open-source OS inspired by BeOS continues to be quite active in feature development as 2020 draws to a close...

New Part Day: Hackboard 2, An X86 Single-Board Computer  Hackaday

The Linux hardware monitoring "k10temp" driver is dropping support for reporting CPU voltage and current information for AMD Zen-based processors over lack of documentation for being able to properly support the functionality...

How to install Latte dock on Ubuntu 20.04 or 18.04 LTS - Linux Shout  H2S Media

The Fastest Linux OS For AMD Ryzen Zen 3? It's Still Intel Clear Linux  Phoronix

As we have shown with prior AMD Ryzen and EPYC processors, the Linux distribution generally offering the fastest out-of-the-box performance is Intel's Clear Linux platform. Given there aren't many other distributions as aggressively optimizing their default package set and engaging in features like AutoFDO, PGO, and various out-of-tree patches in the name of modern Intel x86_64 Linux performance -- and in turn, AMD performance benefits as well -- Clear Linux really shines with modern hardware. Testing of the latest Clear Linux with a Ryzen 9 5900X continues to delivering promising performance compared to the likes of Fedora, openSUSE, Manjaro, Debian, and Ubuntu.