Open-source News

Alibaba’s chip-making subsidiary Pingtouge launched its first product on Thursday: chip processor XuanTie 910, which uses open-source architecture.  The processor uses the RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA)—key programming infrastructure that decides how a device functions. Developers are allowed to build their own products using the Berkeley-based open-source ISA, with few intellectual property restrictions.

As the first Simple DirectMedia Layer release of 2019, SDL 2.0.10 has debuted today for this library that's widely used by cross-platform games including as part of the Steam run-time...

Red Hat CTO Chris Wright talks about Red Hat's future with IBM  ZDNet

In a Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA), Red Hat CTO Wright dishes on open-source and the future of Red Hat products and technologies with IBM.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Operating System Enters Beta with Enhanced Security  Softpedia News

Also improves manageability and developer productivity.

Collabora Adds Big Performance Improvements for Linux Gamers in Linux Kernel 5.2  Softpedia News

Android operating systems will also benefit of the change.

SparkyLinux 5.8 Is Out as First Release Based on Debian GNU/Linux 10 "Buster"  Softpedia News

Available as Xfce, LXQt, Openbox, and text mode editions.

Jolla has released Sailfish OS 3.1 "Seitseminen" as their Linux-based mobile operating system update and their biggest since shipping Sailfish OS 3 back in 2018...

XCP-ng, the enterprise-focused hypervisor based on Xen Server that offers a web UI for management, scalability optimizations, live migration support, and other community features, is up to version 8.0...

$200 Linux Laptop Pinebook Pro is Available for Pre-order  It's FOSS

Pinebook Pro is an inexpensive Linux laptop with modest configuration and a price tag of just $200. Pre-order for this device is open now.

EvilGnome – Linux malware aimed at your desktop, not your servers  Naked Security

EvilGnome was written to target the comparatively small but committed community who use Linux on their laptops.

EvilGnome – Linux malware aimed at your laptop, not your servers  Naked Security

EvilGnome was written to target the comparatively small but committed community who use Linux on their laptops.

PHP 7.4.0beta1 Released, HypriotOS 1.11.0 Now Available, ALA Asks LinkedIn Learning to Change Terms of Service that Jeopardize Privacy Rights, Red Hat Announces RHEL 8.1 Beta and The Forbidden Arts Coming to Linux  Linux Journal

News briefs for July 25, 2019. PHP 7.4.0beta1 has been released, marking the first beta of PHP 7.4. Go here to see the list of changes, and go here to download.

New ADM 3.4. with Cersion 3.4 Comes with Fully Installed Linux Kernel 4.14  ThomasNet News

Taipei, Taiwan - 24 July 2019 - ASUSTOR Inc. is thrilled to have released ADM 3.4. With version 3.4, ADM now comes with Linux Kernel 4.14 fully installed, ...

Zorin OS Is The Linux Distro We Wanted 10 Years Ago [Giveaway Inside]  Fossbytes

Zorin OS is a different offering in a large pool of competition. Zorin isn't groundbreaking but does manage to provide some features that are fairly unique. Zorin is ...

After already having gone through three alpha releases, PHP 7.4 has reached its feature freeze and branching. As a result, the first PHP 7.4 beta is now available that will follow by multiple betas and release candidates while hopefully being released by the end of November...

PineBook Pro Arm Linux Laptop now up for pre-order for $199.99  CNX Software

Pine64 unveiled a Pinebook Pro laptop prototype at FOSDEM 2019 as an update to the original Allwinner A64 powered Pinebook laptop, but instead of just ...

Remember back in 2017 when Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan talked about plans for better Linux support for their high-end gaming laptops on Linux? More than two years later, they have yet to ship a Linux laptop nor make any other measurable improvements to their Linux support...

Razer's Linux Laptop Plans Appear To Have Been Mothballed  Phoronix

Remember back in 2017 when Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan talked about plans for better Linux support for their high-end gaming laptops on Linux? More than two ...

Two months have already passed since the release of Phoronix Test Suite 8.8 while today marks the first development snapshot/milestone of the next quarterly feature update, Phoronix Test Suite 9.0-Asker...

One of the simplest ways of watching against out-of-memory problems in applications is to increase some swap size in your server. In this article, we will explain how to add a swap file to...