Open-source News

Open source made it into a lot of news headlines last month. Read on to learn about some of the major advances.

Stanford unveils open source sustainable cities software

80% of Americans live in cities, and 70% of the world's population is expected to be urban dwellers by 2050. Thanks to the Stanford National Capital Project, city planners and developers have a new open source tool to help improve urban wellbeing.

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We conducted interviews with 1,250 IT leaders worldwide to get a picture of how, where, and why they’re using enterprise open source. We shared the results in the third installment of Red Hat’s "The State of Enterprise Open Source" report earlier this year. Let’s dive into key findings in healthcare.

Mesa's independent Crocus Gallium3D driver providing a modern OpenGL driver alternative for Haswell and older graphics hardware continues seeing improvements following its recent mainlining...

DIY Linux e-Reader – postmarketOS now runs on Kobo Clara HD  CNX Software

Intel open-source engineers are back around with a new take on introducing a PECI subsystem for the Linux kernel to ultimately make their Xeon servers more attractive and friendly for OpenBMC usage...

Intel Gets Back To Years-Long Journey Upstreaming PECI  Phoronix

The End of Linux is Nigh? - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

How to Install and Configure Mutt With Gmail on Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

The Khronos Group recently released a new minor point release to the OpenCL 3.0 specification...

Kobo Clara HD becomes an E Ink Linux tablet with the help of postmarketOS  Liliputing

Linux 5.14 Features From Secret Memory Areas To New Hardware, Core Scheduling, Legacy IDE Dropped  Phoronix

With last night's release of Linux 5.14-rc1 the merge window is officially over for this next version of the Linux kernel. With that, here is a look at the highlights for the forthcoming Linux 5.14 kernel based upon our original reporting during the merge window.

Pi IoT In Python Using Linux Drivers -1-Wire And The DS18B20  iProgrammer

DigiKam as the popular open-source image organizer is out with its version 7.3 feature release...

Linux Mint 20.2 is a bit more insistent about updating but not as annoying as Windows or Mac, team promises  The Register

Canonical and Microsoft: Securing, strengthening, and simplifying your Linux Stack  Microsoft - Channel 9

OpenBLAS as the popular open-source high performance BLAS/LAPACK implementation has seen a new release with more CPU/architecture specific work as well as some new common optimizations...

WinMagic MFA, Encryption Solution for Linux Endpoint Devices Proves It Can Enable US Federal Agencies to Meet Biden's Cybersecurity Deadline  PR Web

Triple buffering and deep color support are two of the features still being worked on for GNOME by Ubuntu maker Canonical...

New Linux kernel 5.14 release candidate is out: Here's what's inside  ZDNet