Open-source News

SSH-Targeting Golang Bots Becoming the New Norm  Security Boulevard

DragonFlyBSD vs. FreeBSD vs. Ubuntu 20.04 On Intel's Core i9 10900K Comet Lake  Phoronix

One of the areas where Intel has the leg up over AMD when it comes to open-source software support is on the BSD side where generally the likes of FreeBSD and DragonFlyBSD often exhibit better out-of-the-box support at launch. Here is a look at how DragonFlyBSD and FreeBSD are running on the Core i9 10900K "Comet Lake" processor with Z490 motherboard.

Firefox Private Network will soon go public as Mozilla VPN with Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, and Linux clients  XDA Developers

How to Install AppImage Programs on Chromebook in 2020  Enter21st

RoboLinux 11.02 Released: Run Windows XP, 7, Or 10 Alonside Linux  Fossbytes

How to Install AppImage Programs on Chromebook  Beebom

What Is Harmony OS? Huawei’s New Operating System Explained  How-To Geek

SUSE Linux is the future of running SAP solutions  ITWeb

How To Install WSL 2 On Windows 10: Goodbye Dual-Boot!  TechDipper

A Cogl driver API clean-up within GNOME's Mutter code-base was merged this week after being open for two months. This cleanup could ultimately help if/when Mutter decides to add a Vulkan back-end...

Following AMD publishing the open-source Linux driver patches for "Sienna Cichlid" (Navi 2) that included the RadeonSI OpenGL driver changes, the RADV Vulkan driver has now tacked on support for this next-generation Navi GPU...

Radeon "RADV" Vulkan Driver Adds Experimental Support For Sienna Cichlid  Phoronix

Titanfall 2 runs on Linux thanks to Proton  AltChar

Global Edge Computing Market 2020 by top Companies: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP, Cisco Systems, Inc., Amazon Web Services, Inc., The Linux Foundation and Other  3rd Watch News

The past number of months Facebook engineering has been working on a new slab memory controller for Linux that can offer less memory fragmentation and lower memory use and slab utilization. The sixth version of these patches were published earlier this month...

Latest Slab Cgroup Memory Controller Patches Saving ~1GB RAM Per Host On Facebook Servers  Phoronix

Red Dead Redemption 2 actually performs better on Linux than Windows with AMD Graphics  guru3d.com

With the recent worldwide pandemic and stay-at-home orders, I have been looking for things to do to replace some of my usual activities. I started to update my home electronics setup and, as part of that, to delve into home automation. Some of my friends use Amazon's Alexa to turn lights on and off in their house, and that is appealing on some level. However, I am a privacy-conscious individual, and I was never really comfortable with devices from Google or Amazon listening to my family all the time (I'll ignore cellphones for the sake of this conversation).

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Are you a designer looking to share your talents? Open Source Design may just be the place for you. It is "a community of designers and developers pushing more open design processes and improving the user experience and interface design of open source software."

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