Open-source News

While the feature rich Mesa 20.2 should be christened as stable within the next couple of weeks, Mesa 20.1.6 is out today as for what is now the newest bi-weekly stable point release for this collection of open-source OpenGL/Vulkan drivers...

Along with Solaris 11.4 SRU24, another operating system update out this week from Oracle is the beta of their forthcoming RHEL7-based Oracle Linux 7 Update 9...

Oracle Linux 7 U9 Beta Bringing Updated Drivers, Wayland Tech Preview  Phoronix

Windows 10 WSL2 Can Now Run Kali Linux With Full Native Graphical User Interface Win-KeX Available On Microsoft Store  Appuals

With Intel's Lakefield and the future Alder Lake with their hybrid x86 architecture mixing of "little" and "big" cores, operating system optimizations become all the more important and thus will be interesting to see how the battle is between Windows and Linux...

Linux vs. Windows Performance Will Be All The More Interesting With Intel's Hybrid x86 Architecture  Phoronix

Lucifer cryptomining DDoS malware now targets Linux systems  BleepingComputer

Linux Operating System Market – Emerging Trends may Make Driving Growth Volatile  Owned

US urges Linux users to secure kernels from new Russian malware threat  SC Magazine

As alluded to previously, a major overhaul of OpenBenchmarking.org has been in the works for a number of months now including a completely brand new analytics engine as part of the Phoronix Test Suite 10.0 development with its release due out later this year. With the new OpenBenchmarking.org now in good enough shape at least for the internal infrastructure, this new version is being opened up to the public today while over the weeks ahead more features will continue to be flipped on.

Upgrading Ubuntu to Linux kernel 5.8: A case for and against it  TechRepublic

Academy Software Foundation Announces Unity Technologies as a New Premier Member  PRNewswire

Linux Foundation showcases the greater good of open source  ComputerWeekly.com

MS Office Alternative Software for Linux Market Pegged for Robust Expansion by 2025  The News Brok

Having difficulty installing Mint 20 and suspecting HDD as culprit - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

Fedora's plans to make use of link-time optimizations (LTO) by default with the GCC compiler when building Fedora 33 packages is looking like it will successfully pan out...

Sophos EDR achieves Amazon Linux 2 Ready designation  Naked Security

Global Linux Software Market 2020: Remarking Enormous Growth with Recent Trends ,Leading Vendors,By Types and Application, By End Users and Forecast to 2027  Bulletin Line

How to install Anaconda Navigator on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS or CentOS Linux  H2S Media

Blockchain Technology Trends and Forecast 2020- IBM Corporation; Microsoft Corporation; Linux Foundation; and R3. Some other key players in the market include BTL Group; Chain Inc  The Daily Chronicle