Open-source News

Mumblings Of A "Big New" Open-Source GPU Driver Coming...

Phoronix - Sat, 05/22/2021 - 21:00
It's sounding like a vendor is readying to publish a "big" new open-source driver, likely a GPU driver, for the Linux kernel...

GNOME Human Interface Guidelines Being Updated For GTK4, Other Modern Features

Phoronix - Sat, 05/22/2021 - 19:09
GNOME's Human Interface Guidelines "HIG" are in the process of being updated around the GTK4 tool-kit and new components like libadwaita and libhandy...

VirtIO-GPU/Graphics Support Is Improving In QEMU But Slowly

Phoronix - Sat, 05/22/2021 - 18:07
There continues a lot of work going into Virgl for 3D guest acceleration with the open-source Linux virtualization stack as well as most recently Vulkan driver activity. However, much of that work driven by Google these days is focused on Chrome OS with "Crosvm" rather than the venerable QEMU...

Fork Brute Force Attack Detection/Mitigation Still Being Worked On For The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Sat, 05/22/2021 - 17:48
A security module continues to be worked on for being able to detect and mitigate against fork/execute brute force attacks to Linux systems...

KDE Introduces KCommandBar For HUD-Style Popups

Phoronix - Sat, 05/22/2021 - 17:23
Following the introduction of KHamburgerMenu, the latest KDE user-interface element being introduced is KCommandBar for expert-focused, HUD-style pop-ups...

17 true stories about switching to Linux

opensource.com - Sat, 05/22/2021 - 15:00

It's been 30 years since Linus Torvalds created Linux, way back in 1991, as a free alternative to Unix. In that time, it's grown from a niche project to a powerful, widely used operating system that sustains much of what's essential in modern computing—the cloud, the Internet of Things, supercomputers, the devices that kept students learning during a global pandemic, and much, much more.


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RHEL 8.4 Released With Tiger Lake Graphics, Expanded eBPF Support

Phoronix - Sat, 05/22/2021 - 05:10
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 has reached general availability (GA) status as the latest iteration of RHEL8...

Wine 6.9 Released With More Improvements For Running Windows Apps/Games On Linux

Phoronix - Sat, 05/22/2021 - 04:26
Wine 6.9 is out as the latest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for running Windows applications and games on Linux and other Unix-like platforms...

SiFive HiFive Unmatched RISC-V Developer Boards Begin Shipping

Phoronix - Sat, 05/22/2021 - 01:33
Announced last year was the HiFive Unmatched as the most compelling RISC-V development board to date. Following supply chain issues and everything else brought on by the pandemic, this very interesting RISC-V developer board is now shipping to customers...

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