Open-source News

After a decade of Chromebooks, it's time for Chrome OS to sort apps in the Launcher  About Chromebooks

Kodi 19 "Matrix" Alpha 1 has been released for this very popular, cross-platform open-source HTPC software...

Mageia 8 Beta 1 Linux distro now available with KDE Plasma, GNOME, and Xfce  BetaNews

The Linux kernel continues supporting a lot more audio devices and much more punctual than a decade or two ago...

Linux 5.9 Supports A Lot Of New Audio Hardware, Intel Silent Stream Added  Phoronix

This week Mesa developers began drafting plans for transitioning their primary Git branch to "main", following the naming plans of other open-source projects using Git...

Each kernel cycle the networking subsystem sees a lot of churn given the importance of network interconnect performance and reliability especially in high performance computing environments where Linux dominates...

Linux 5.9 Networking Changes Are As Active As Ever  Phoronix

Kali Linux for Beginners: Computer Hacking & Programming Guide with Practical Examples of Wireless Networking Hacking & Penetration Testing with Kali Linux to Understand the Basics of Cyber Security  Digital Market News

Rainbow Text, ASCII Art and More: Customize Your Linux Terminal  Tom's Hardware

Getting KDE's Wayland session into shape remains a priority for developers this year and it's looking like the support should be quite slick come Plasma 5.20...

Zero Terminal 3 Is A Linux PC With $5 Raspberry Pi & Touchscreen  Fossbytes

In this week’s edition of our open source news roundup, an open source microfluidics pump, Germany rolls out an encrypted messaging platform based on Matrix, and more open source news.

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The "char/misc" area of the kernel continues to be quite busy for Linux 5.9 included as a sort of "catch-all" for the Linux kernel drivers not properly jiving within other areas. While there previously was talk of formally making a hardware accelerator subsystem for the Linux kernel for fitting some of the drivers currently living under char/misc, as of Linux 5.9 that still has not materialized...

Char/Misc Is Still Quite Busy With Linux 5.9 Still Lacking An "Accelerator" Subsystem  Phoronix

Char/Misc Is Still Quite Busy With Linux 5.9 Still Lacking An "Accelerator" Subsystem  Phoronix

The first beta of the forthcoming Mageia 8 is now available, the Linux distribution that traces its roots back to Mandriva/Mandrake...

Is There Room for Linux Workstations at Your Organization?  ITPro Today

ARM Now Defaulting To Schedutil Governor, Other Power Management Work For Linux 5.9  Phoronix

There are a number of notable power management changes to find with the Linux 5.9 kernel...