Open-source News

AMD has updated their collection of software offered under their "GPUOpen" umbrella for Radeon RX 6000 series / RDNA 2 compatibility...

Everything you need to know to become an expert Linux admin  TechRepublic

Given the recent Intel presentation alleging AMD Ryzen laptop performance being worse on battery relative to the AC vs. battery performance seen with Intel EVO notebooks featuring Tiger Lake processors, I ran a mini comparison on my side to see whether there is any merit to Intel's information when testing under Ubuntu Linux.

Whitewater Foundry Proudly Announces Partnership With CodeWeavers - Makers of Popular Windows® Subsystem for Linux Distribution 'Pengwin' to Work in Tandem With Wildly Successful Open-Source Creators  StreetInsider.com

Whitewater Foundry Proudly Announces Partnership With CodeWeavers - Makers of Popular Windows® Subsystem for Linux Distribution 'Pengwin' to Work in Tandem With Wildly Successful Open-Source Creators of 'CrossOver'  PRNewswire

Stantinko's Linux malware now poses as an Apache web server  ZDNet

ONAP Certification Launches to Help Close Talent Gap with Growth of Network Automation, 5G and Edge Computing  PRNewswire

Stantinko Botnet Now Targeting Linux Servers to Hide Behind Proxies  The Hacker News

Syxsense Announces New Support for Amazon Web Service (AWS) Linux Devices  WFMZ Allentown

Syxsense Announces New Support for Amazon Web Service (AWS) Linux Devices  Yahoo Finance

Linus Torvalds would like to use an M1 Mac for Linux, but…  ZDNet

Ubuntu Linux maker Canonical publishes curated container images to help secure software supply chains  BetaNews

Merging and sorting files in Linux: Easier than you think  TechGenix

Earlier this year we mentioned Greg Kroah-Hartman working on a new READFILE system call. The goal of this new syscall is for reading small and medium files more efficiently by having one call to read a file straight into a buffer without having to use the separate open/read/close system calls. It's looking like that system call is back on the table and could be mainlined now that there's a possible user...

Linux READFILE System Call Revived Now That It Might Have A User  Phoronix

Linux READFILE System Call Revived Now That It Might Have A User  Phoronix

LibreOffice 7.1 was branched this weekend that also marked the hard feature freeze for this next half-year update to this open-source office suite. LibreOffice 7.1 Beta has now shipped ahead of next month's release candidate and the additional test releases in January before going gold in early February...

There are two interesting bits of news today pertaining to open-source Vulkan drivers being officially conformant with the Vulkan 1.0 specification in passing the necessary Vulkan CTS tests...

Linux Computer Market Anticipated to Grow at a Significant Pace by 2020 – 2026  AlgosOnline

An interesting solution built off Intel's oneAPI Level Zero is the open-source "ZLUDA" that is providing a "Level Zero CUDA" implementation for being able to run programs geared for NVIDIA CUDA atop Intel UHD / Xe Graphics hardware...