Open-source News

Meet open source community SONiC, the 'Linux of networking'  Channel Asia Singapore

Meet open source community SONiC, the 'Linux of networking'  Channel Asia Singapore

Wine 5.19 is out as the latest bi-weekly development release of this software for running Windows games/applications on Linux and other platforms...

This Is Your RTX 3080 On Linux  PC Perspective

After being in development for more than one year, it looks like with Linux 5.10 there will be EXT4 fast commit support...

The Current Intel Coffee Lake Mitigation Performance Impact With Linux 5.9  Phoronix

Of the many new features in Linux 5.9 with its debut set for this weekend, one of the performance-related changes is Intel FSGSBASE support finally being mainlined. A half-decade after the Linux patches first appeared for this feature present in Intel CPUs going back to Ivy Bridge, the mainline kernel is now patched for this feature that can help out I/O and other context switching heavy workloads. Given many of the same workloads were negatively impacted by the CPU security mitigations of recent years, here is a look at the current mitigated vs. unmitigated performance difference on the Linux 5.9 kernel with an Intel Core i9 9900K CPU for reference on how the mitigation impact is on recent versions of the Linux kernel.

Meet open source community SONiC, the 'Linux of networking'  ARNnet

Could Microsoft be en route to dumping Windows in favor of Linux?  TechRepublic

Microsoft brings official Visual Studio Code to ARM-powered Chromebooks  About Chromebooks

Back in August was the big surprise of file-system driver vendor Paragon Software wanting to mainline their NTFS driver into the Linux kernel that is much more advanced than the existing NTFS Linux driver. While not merged yet, on Friday the latest version was sent out for review...

Paragon Sends Out Latest NTFS Read-Write Linux Driver Patches  Phoronix

Not only is the Plasma 5.20 desktop shining and more Wayland improvements and other enhancements queuing for Plasma 5.21, but the Plasma Mobile effort is also beginning to shine...

Open Source Processes Driving Software-Defined Everything  LinuxInsider.com

Microsoft's VS Code comes to Raspberry Pi and Chromebook – new v1.50 update is out  ZDNet

The Linux Kernel Preparing To Take Advantage Of The Intel DSA / ENQCMD In Sapphire Rapids  Phoronix

Expected with next year's Intel Sapphire Rapids Xeon CPUs is the Intel DSA as the Data Streaming Accelerator for high performance data movement and transformation operations. Since the end of 2019 there have been Linux patches surfacing for bringing up the DSA support and now as we roll into 2021 the Linux kernel looks to begin making use of the new capabilities...

The Linux Kernel Preparing To Take Advantage Of The Intel DSA / ENQCMD In Sapphire Rapids  Phoronix

How to Install Linux  How-To Geek

New to the RTX 30 series and the NVIDIA 455 Linux driver is decode support with VDPAU for VP9 10-bit and 12-bit content, which can now be taken advantage of by the popular FFmpeg multimedia library...