Open-source News

Linux Server Security: 10 Linux Hardening & Security Best Practices  Security Boulevard

There are many improvements in LLVM/Clang 11.0 due out in the weeks ahead though an interesting change merged prior to last month's code branching that slipped under our radar... If using the clang-cl driver for MSVC or when otherwise making use of pre-compiled headers (PCH) functionality, there is a new option that can offer significant build time speed-ups...

Intel's Cloud Hypervisor focused on being a Rustlang-based hypervisor focused for cloud workloads is closing in on the 1.0 milestone. With this week's release of Cloud-Hypervisor 0.9 there is one very exciting feature in particular but also a lot of other interesting changes...

Intel Cloud-Hypervisor 0.9 Brings io_uring Block Device Support For Faster Performance  Phoronix

kali linux as windows host - Virtual Machines and VM Programs  BleepingComputer

A Shell? A Programming Language? Relax! It's Both!  Hackaday

Pocket P.C. design files released as open source (handheld Linux computer)  Liliputing

After a decade of Chromebooks, it's time for Chrome OS to sort apps in the Launcher  About Chromebooks

Kodi 19 "Matrix" Alpha 1 has been released for this very popular, cross-platform open-source HTPC software...

Mageia 8 Beta 1 Linux distro now available with KDE Plasma, GNOME, and Xfce  BetaNews

The Linux kernel continues supporting a lot more audio devices and much more punctual than a decade or two ago...

Linux 5.9 Supports A Lot Of New Audio Hardware, Intel Silent Stream Added  Phoronix

This week Mesa developers began drafting plans for transitioning their primary Git branch to "main", following the naming plans of other open-source projects using Git...

Each kernel cycle the networking subsystem sees a lot of churn given the importance of network interconnect performance and reliability especially in high performance computing environments where Linux dominates...

Linux 5.9 Networking Changes Are As Active As Ever  Phoronix

Kali Linux for Beginners: Computer Hacking & Programming Guide with Practical Examples of Wireless Networking Hacking & Penetration Testing with Kali Linux to Understand the Basics of Cyber Security  Digital Market News

Rainbow Text, ASCII Art and More: Customize Your Linux Terminal  Tom's Hardware

Getting KDE's Wayland session into shape remains a priority for developers this year and it's looking like the support should be quite slick come Plasma 5.20...

Zero Terminal 3 Is A Linux PC With $5 Raspberry Pi & Touchscreen  Fossbytes

In this week’s edition of our open source news roundup, an open source microfluidics pump, Germany rolls out an encrypted messaging platform based on Matrix, and more open source news.

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