Open-source News

AMD Releases Radeon Software Linux Driver With Vulkan Ray-Tracing Support  Phoronix

Well known open-source AMD Linux graphics driver developer Marek Olšák published an initial proposal this week as "a redesign of how Linux graphics drivers work."..

AMD Proposing Redesign For How Linux GPU Drivers Work - Explicit Fences Everywhere  Phoronix

Running Linux on Windows 10 just got a little less janky  Techradar

Running Linux on Windows 10 just got a little less janky  TechRadar

Running Linux on Windows 10 just got a little less janky  TechRadar

Running Linux on Windows 10 just got a little less janky  TechRadar

Linux 5.12 – Main Changes, Arm, MIPS and RISC-V Architectures  CNX Software

Last week 4A Games released Metro Exodus for Linux and while there were a few issues at launch, at least one of them is now resolved...

Mesa RADV Driver Fixes Memory Leak Affecting Metro Exodus On Linux  Phoronix

Linux, Lyft establish mobile devs collective to build enterprise-grade apps  TechHQ

It's fairly common that many longtime Linux kernel developers use their personal email addresses for signing off on kernel patches or dealing with other patch work, especially when they are engaging with kernel development in their personal time too and occasionally jumping between employers over time while still sticking to interacting with the upstream kernel community, etc. There are also understandably some companies that mandate the use of their corporate email addresses for their official work/patches while now IBM seems to be taking things one step to the extreme...

IBM To Kernel Maintainer: "You Are An IBM Employee 100% Of The Time"  Phoronix

It's been over one year already since the debut of DragonFlyBSD 5.8 while fortunately DragonFlyBSD 6.0 will be here soon for this popular BSD operating system...

AI Makes Linux Do What You Mean, Not What You Say  Hackaday

How to Delete Partitions in Linux [Using fdisk and GParted]  It's FOSS

Linux Software Market 2021 Is Booming Across the Globe by Share, Size, Growth, Segments and Forecast to 2027 | Top Players Analysis- Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, IBM, etc. – NeighborWebSJ  NeighborWebSJ

Users have every right to be concerned about the safety and security of their data. When you create data on a computer, it's reasonable to want exclusive control over it.

There are many ways to protect your documents. At the filesystem level, you can encrypt your hard drive or just a file. A good office suite affords you many more options, though, and I've gathered five of the methods I use to secure my documents with open source software.

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Most people connect to at least two networks every day. After you turn on a computer or mobile device, it connects to a local WiFi network, which in turn provides access to the interconnected network of networks that is "the internet" (a combination of the words interconnected networks).

But how do networks actually work? How does your device know how to find the internet, a shared printer, or a file share? How do these things know how to respond to your device? What tricks do system administrators use to optimize the performance of a network?

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SigNoz is an open source application observability platform. Built in React and Go, SigNoz is written from the ground up to allow developers to get started with their observability goals as soon as possible and with minimum effort.

This article looks at the software in detail, including the architecture, Kubernetes-based deployment, and some common SigNoz uses.

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