Open-source News

Modules and dev kits run Linux on 2.3-TOPS equipped i.MX8M Plus  LinuxGizmos.com

GNOME 3.38 has shipped as the newest half-year update to this desktop environment and will be featured in the upcoming Ubuntu 20.10, Fedora 33, and other autumn Linux distribution updates...

This PinePhone Multi-Distro Image Lets You Run 13 Distros on the Linux Phone  LXer

The V3DV driver for providing Vulkan support on the Raspberry Pi 4 is very close to Vulkan 1.0 conformance and once squaring that away along with other lingering bits they will be pursuing the upstreaming of this driver within Mesa...

After Reaching Vulkan 1.0 Conformance, V3DV Raspberry Pi Vulkan To Pursue Mainline Mesa  Phoronix

Open Mainframe Project Announces Record Growth with the Launch of Four New Projects, a COBOL Working Group and Micro Focus as a New Member  PRNewswire

Linux-Based Systems Are Being Actively Targeted By Hackers: Kaspersky  Mashable India

Transform Your Wireshark Workflow with Brim on Linux  How-To Geek

Microsoft: These patches aim to make Linux run as root partition on Hyper-V  ZDNet

X.Org Developers Conference 2020 Starts With Many Interesting Talks  Phoronix

XDC2020 as the annual gathering of X.Org developers was due to take place in Poland this year but the COVID-19 pandemic has caused it to be yet another conference happening exclusively online. Day 1 of XDC2020 has just begun...

Compression expert Rich Geldreich who previously worked for the likes of Valve and Unity prior to co-founding his own consulting firm has now made the Crunch and LZHAM technologies available under the public domain...

Linux Operating System Market 2020 Trend By Products And End Users, Forecast Till 2026 | Fortune Business ...  The Midland Weekly

After over a half year working on this new version, Rav1e 0.4 is on the way but first is the alpha milestone out today...

Gentoo Linux is looking to improve the kernel maintenance experience by offering up Ebuilds that make it easier to maintain the kernel through the package manager -- including prebuilt binary kernels...

Linux Software Market to Witness Huge Growth by 2026 | Google, Twitter, Facebook, etc.  The Market Correspondent

How to install Chromium Browser on Tine Core Linux - Linux Shout  H2S Media

The Raspberry Pi is a small, versatile device that makes interfacing with the real world a breeze for mere mortals. The Raspberry Pi Foundation's idea was to sell the devices at such a low cost that breaking one would be sad—but not a disaster. This is one reason it has been a massive success as an educational tool. But their usefulness has not escaped the business world, where they are becoming a valuable tool for automating the physical world.

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Some things about the Ruby community have always impressed me. Two examples are the commitment to testing and the emphasis on making it easy to get started. The best example of both is Ruby Koans, where you learn Ruby by fixing tests.

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Pinephone Multiboot Image Boots 13 Different Linux Distributions  CNX Software