Open-source News

RadeonSI Lands Another Big Overhead Optimization - "Substantially" Helps In Some Cases  Phoronix

Python 3.10 is out as the latest major update for this widely-used programming language's official implementation...

How you can find the Best VPN for Linux 2021 2021 Tips - Bollyinside  BollyInside

Linus Torvalds on 30 years of Linux, Rust and the open-source community  SiliconANGLE News

MidnightBSD: A BSD-Based Alternative to the Linux Desktop  MUO - MakeUseOf

Google announced today that Android 12 is now officially available from the Android Open Source Project (AOSP)...

AMD Publishes Open-Source "GPUFORT" As Newest Effort To Help Transition Away From CUDA  Phoronix

I've just been informed by AMD that they have now made their code public to a new project called GPUFORT. This new GPUFORT project will live under the Radeon Open eCosystem (ROCm) umbrella and is their latest endeavor in helping developers with large CUDA code-bases transition away from NVIDIA's closed ecosystem...

The newest patch series by AMD open-source Linux graphics driver engineers worth mentioning is around USB4 DisplayPort tunneling support for next-generation AMD hardware supporting USB4 connectivity...

In PuTTY, Scripted Passwords are Exposed Passwords  Linux Journal

Linux 101: What is the mount command and how do you use it?  TechRepublic

How to install MongoDB Server on Alpine Linux  H2S Media

It's been one year now since Intel launched Tiger Lake mobile processors and since then we've been running routine benchmarks of the Core i7 1165G7 on Linux. Tiger Lake at launch was performing well under Linux but its performance has continued evolving nicely since on Linux, especially as it pertains to the Xe Graphics with the open-source OpenGL/Vulkan drivers. With Ubuntu 21.10 due out later this month, there is another performance boost to enjoy.

Mesa 21.3 recently landed RADV ray-tracing support for this open-source Radeon Vulkan driver with RDNA2 graphics processors. Now the software-based/emulated Vulkan ray-tracing support has been merged for handling pre-RDNA2 GPUs...

Linus Torvalds: Juggling chainsaws and building Linux  ZDNet

Google commits $1M to new Linux Foundation open source security rewards program  VentureBeat

Google commits $1M to new Linux Foundation open source security rewards program  VentureBeat

The Lumina Desktop Environment as the BSD-3 licensed desktop originally spearheaded for TrueOS/PC-BSD but found supported as well by other BSDs and Linux distributions is out with a rare new release...

In recent weeks the AVX-512 FP16 support has been landing within the GNU Compiler Collection codebase for next year's GCC 12 release...

Markets: An Open-Source Linux App to Track Financial Market  It's FOSS