Open-source News

One week past the Linux 5.9 official debut, Linux 5.9.1 is now available. Making this initial point release a bit more noteworthy is including the fixes for the "Bleeding Tooth" Bluetooth vulnerability made public this week...

Back in August was the surprise that Paragon Software is looking to mainline their NTFS read-write driver in the mainline Linux kernel after years of offering it as a commercial driver for those needing reliable support for this Microsoft file-system on Linux. Two months later they are now up to their ninth revision of this driver in their pursuit of mainline inclusion...

New NTFS Linux Driver Spun A Ninth Time, Still Under Review  Phoronix

The Linux 5.10 kernel is bringing support for new MIPS-based Ingenic SoCs...

Ingenic X2000/X2000E MIPS IoT Processor Supported By Linux 5.10  Phoronix

The release of the new version of Proton 5.13 for running Windows games in Linux  Phone Mantra

OpenBLAS 0.3.11 is out as the newest major feature release for this BLAS linear algebra library. While the version number may not make it seem like a big update, it is especially when it comes to new CPU support...

Windows Calculator ported to Linux using Uno Platform - MSPoweruser  MSPoweruser

While NVIDIA is usually quite timely in supporting new versions of the Linux kernel and aim to have out a driver by the end of the release candidates for new series, in the case of the recently minted Linux 5.9 kernel it's taking a lot longer...

NVIDIA Doesn't Expect To Have Linux 5.9 Driver Support For Another Month  Phoronix

Google's Dev Board Mini SBC launches for $100  LinuxGizmos.com

This week marked the release of Plasma 5.20 while KDE developers continue working towards not only Plasma 5.21 as the next desktop feature release but also providing fixes for next month's Plasma 5.20.1 release and the growing collection of KDE applications...

MS Office Alternative Software for Linux Market Size 2020 Growth Rate by Applications, Product Type and Future Forecast 2027 | Apple Inc, Google, Yozodcs, Softmaker (freeoffice), Shimo, Tencent, Kingsoft  PRnews Leader

The Windows 10 Calculator has been ported to Linux  BleepingComputer

For weeks there have been patches getting the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan implementation to OpenGL 4.6 while mainline Mesa has been at OpenGL 3.0 support. Thankfully the out-of-tree patch delta is being reduced and this week in Mesa 20.3-devel the code has been upstreamed getting the support level to OpenGL 3.3...

The POWER architecture changes have been submitted for the Linux 5.10 kernel. As expected, the PowerPC 601 support is retired as that original 32-bit PowerPC processor from the early 90's...

PowerPC 601 Support Retired In Linux 5.10 While Continuing To Bring Up POWER10  Phoronix

How to Update Firefox on Ubuntu [Beginner's Tip]  It's FOSS

The perf tool updates have been sent in for the ongoing Linux 5.10 merge window...

NGG (Next-Gen Geometry) ended up being fairly buggy/problematic for Navi but it looks like for the upcoming Radeon RX 6000 (RDNA 2 / Navi 2) launch that it's in better shape...