Open-source News

Raspberry Pi OS Switches To PulseAudio, Updated Chromium  Phoronix

Just in time for any holiday Raspberry Pi purchases, an updated Raspberry Pi OS is available today for the Debian-based Linux distribution optimized for these budget ARM SBCs...

Google today is announcing the open-sourcing of Atheris, a Python fuzzer they developed internally for automatically finding bugs within Python code and native extensions...

System76 to Launch Their First AMD-Only “Pangolin” Linux Laptop  LXer

2020: State of Linux desktop today  guru3d.com

Dual-GbE router board offers PoE, 802.11ax, and an M.2 slot  LinuxGizmos.com

Dual-GbE router board offers PoE, 802.11ax, and an M.2 slot  LinuxGizmos.com

Another Look At The Performance Impact To IBM's POWER9 L1d Flushing Change  Phoronix

Last week I provided some benchmarks looking at the IBM POWER9 mitigation for the L1 data cache needing to be flushed upon entering the kernel and on user accesses due to a recently disclosed vulnerability. POWER9 allows speculatively operating on validated data in the L1 cache, but when it comes to incompletely validated data paired with other side channels it could lead to local users potentially obtaining improper access to data in the L1 data cache. When benchmarking the impact on a POWER9 4c/16t CPU the overall impact was fairly modest while since then I fired up some benchmarks as well on a large POWER9 server with 44 cores / 176 threads to see the performance impact of this default Linux kernel change.

Tech : How to install Windows 10 on an Apple M1 or Linux distro  Explica

For the "Video Core Next 2" hardware like Navi as well as Renoir APUs, HEVC "sample adaptive offset" support has landed in Mesa 21.0...

GNU Emacs is a very famous editor, but not everyone knows that emacs is a tradition of text editors rather than just one specific application. The term "emacs" is actually a portmanteau of "Editor Macros," and the first one was programmed in 1976 as a set of macros for the TECO editor.

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Pacman, the excellent package manager on Arch Linux, is working on becoming even more compelling with the in-development Pacman 6.0...

Arch Linux's Pacman 6.0 Enters Alpha With Parallel Downloads Support  Phoronix

The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) approved a fresh batch of changes this week for Fedora 34 that is due out next spring...

In addition to AMD Zen 1/2/3 PowerCap RAPL support coming for the Linux 5.11 kernel, the hwmon-next Git branch has also queued initial support for Zen 3 processors within the AMD_Energy driver...

EPYC Zen 3 CPU Support Coming To Linux's AMD_Energy Driver  Phoronix

When I saw Stack Overflow Chief Product Officer (CPO) Teresa Dietrich on the list of speakers at the All Things Open conference this year, I jumped at the chance to get an update.

We all know the value of Stack Overflow: the information that's been created there over the past twelve years is nothing short of vital for programmers, developers, and other technologists. Just the other day one of our contributors shared how critical it was to his process for starting to learn a new programming language quickly.

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Linux Foundation Offers New Certification For Entry-Level IT Pros  TechDecisions

In June 2020, the Secretary-General of the United Nations published a "Roadmap for Digital Cooperation." In this report, he expanded on recommendations made a year before, calling on all actors, including the Member States, the United Nations system, the private sector, and others, to promote digital public goods. He says to realize the benefits of increased internet connectivity, open source projects in the form of digital public goods must be at the center.

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