Open-source News

Google and The Linux Foundation want to help open source projects manage their trademarks  XDA Developers

Microsoft Unveils Its Second Antimalware Tool For Linux Systems -  Technology Times Pakistan

The Chromebook that acts like a computer (but isn't quite)  The Australian Financial Review

Following a NVIDIA 450 Linux beta with the CUDA 11.0-rc in early June and the more formal NVIDIA 450.51 Linux beta later in June, NVIDIA has now promoted the 450 Linux driver series to stable with today's release of the 450.57 driver build...

NVIDIA 450.57 Linux Driver Released With Image Sharpening Option, NGX Library  Phoronix

The first release candidate of the forthcoming systemd 246 is now available for testing...

What’s This New Ubuntu ‘Rolling Rhino’ And Do You Need It?  Forbes

What’s This New Ubuntu ‘Rolling Rhino’ And Do You Need It?  Forbes

It took the GNOME/Ubuntu side until Canonical developer Daniel van Vugt picked up a 4K display with Intel graphics for various 4K/Intel graphics optimizations to be discovered and continue to be addressed for the GNOME desktop. Now on the KDE side, well known contributor Nate Graham recently picked up a new laptop with HiDPI display and there he has been working to resolve a number of lingering high DPI issues on the KDE front...

Fedora Linux Desktop To Switch From EXT4 To Btrfs Filesystem By Default  Fossbytes

How to Use the whois Command on Linux  How-To Geek

Into A Dream Releases on PC, Linux, and Mac on Steam July 30  Niche Gamer

In response to the largely critical feedback of LibreOffice 7.0-RC1's branding as "Personal Edition" for the standard version of this open-source office suite, the branding is being reconsidered to either delay it until LibreOffice 7.1 or potentially relabel it as the "Community Edition" version...

It took a month after Arm disclosed the CPU "SLS" vulnerability and when the LLVM compiler landed their initial mitigation, but the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) now has mitigations as well for this Straight Line Speculation vulnerability...

Google And Ubuntu Join Forces To Make Desktop Linux Even Better  Forbes

Following last week's release of openSUSE Leap 15.2, this latest community, SUSE-backed Linux distribution release is now available via the Microsoft Store...

There is a last minute change from a Microsoft engineer to the upcoming systemd 246 that is now undergoing release preparations...

Google Teams Up With Canonical To Announce Linux Alpha For Flutter  Fossbytes

"If things seem under control, you're just not going fast enough." —Mario Andretti

Test automation means focusing continuously on detecting defects, errors, and bugs as early and quickly as possible in the software development process. This is done using tools that pursue quality as the highest value and are put in place to ensure quality—not just pursue it.

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As members of the maker community, we are always looking for creative ways to use hardware and software. This time, Patrick Lima and I decided we wanted to expand the Raspberry Pi's ports using an Arduino board, so we could access more functionality and ports and add a layer of protection to the device. There are a lot of ways to use this setup, such as building a solar panel that follows the sun, a home weather station, joystick interaction, and more.

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