Open-source News

Bird Miner: This Cryptominer Malware Emulates Linux To Attack Macs  Fossbytes

One of the biggest disadvantages of using pirated software is the increased risk of letting your computer get infected with malware. Cybercriminals often bundle ...

Google's GAPID, also known as the Graphics API Debugger, continues serving as an interesting open-source and cross-platform Vulkan debugger. On Thursday version 1.6 of GAPID was released...

Well known open-source AMD developer Marek Olšák sent out a set of eight RadeonSI Gallium3D patches this morning that appear mostly mundane and namely come down to some minor code alterations. This work though is in stepping towards the actual Navi/GFX10 support we expect to be dropped incredibly soon...

While DragonFlyBSD 5.6 was just released earlier this week, DragonFlyBSD 5.6.1 is already available to fix some bugs that crept into this big update...

Red Hat's last quarterly report?  ZDNet

With the months ticking down to IBM's acquisition of Red Hat, the Linux and cloud power, business continues to perform at a high level.

Linux Foundation Board Elects Longtime Community Members to Chair and Vice Chair  Linux.com

The Linux Foundation today is announcing its new Board Chair Nithya Ruff and Vice Chair Wim Coekaerts, both of whom bring a long history of contribution, ...

Top 500 Supercomputers of the World are Linux-Based, Reveals TOP500 53rd Edition  Digital Information World

The 53rd edition of Top500 is here with an interesting commonality among all the top 500 supercomputers. These top 500 are all Linux-based supercomputers, ...

Top 500 Supercomputers of the World are Linux-Based, Reveals TOP500 53rd Edition  Digital Information World

Though China lost its first two positions after November 2017 but still a number of supercomputers (219 to be exact) built in China is more than the US ...

Important, but obscure, sysadmin tool osquery gets a foundation of its own  ZDNet

This relatively unknown, but useful, sysadmin tool is getting a new chance for glory via The Linux Foundation.

The Linux Foundation today is announcing its new Board Chair Nithya Ruff and Vice Chair Wim Coekaerts, both of whom bring a long history of contribution, collaboration and developer advocacy to their new positions. Both existing board members, these new roles will allow them to deepen their stewardship and support for Linux and open source projects across industries.

The Linux Foundation today is announcing its new Board Chair Nithya Ruff and Vice Chair Wim Coekaerts, both of whom bring a long history of contribution, collaboration and developer advocacy to their new positions. Both existing board members, these new roles will allow them to deepen their stewardship and support for Linux and open source projects across industries.

Nithya’s passion for open source was ignited while at SGI in the 1990s. Since then, open source development and contribution have been the driving force in her career, and she has dedicated herself to developer and community advocacy and diverse open source contribution. She has founded open source program offices at companies like Western Digital and has led teams of product managers and developers across a variety of companies, building a world-class embedded Linux distribution and being on the founding teams of many open source projects and efforts. Today she is the head of Comcast’s Open Source Program Office.

“It is an honor to be elected Chair of the Linux Foundation board to work with the global open source community, navigating and enabling the adoption of emerging and established open technologies,” said Nithya Ruff. “The combination of company and developer support for open source results in stronger and more sustainable open source communities. It takes an ecosystem to build open source, and I’m happy to be among so many who serve in this effort.”

Much of Wim’s career has been dedicated to working in the open source community to advance Linux in the enterprise. With a long history of managing engineering and developer teams at Oracle, Wim has been at the forefront of every major technical development in the enterprise for more than 15 years, and his personal experience contributing to Linux and the Linux kernel makes him a natural advocate and advisor for developers and technologists who are just beginning to contribute to Linux and other open source projects.

“The Linux Foundation has been doing a lot of important work in the open source community for many years. Whether it’s bringing important projects together, bringing developers and companies together or providing important services across all projects and programs, it has been a consistent steward for sustainable communities. As a long-time board member of the Linux Foundation, I am proud to have been elected Vice Chair and looking forward to working even closer with the community,” said Wim Coekaerts.

Nithya and Wim have been elected to these positions by board vote.

The Linux Foundation’s mission is dedicated to building sustainable ecosystems around open collaboration to accelerate technology development and industry adoption. It expands the open collaboration communities it supports with community efforts focused on building open standards, open hardware and open data. The Linux Foundation is also dedicated to improving diversity in open source communities and working on processes, tools and best practices for security in open development communities.

The post Linux Foundation Board Elects Longtime Community Members to Chair and Vice Chair appeared first on The Linux Foundation.

It's looking like the plans announced by Canonical this week to drop their 32-bit packages/libraries beginning with Ubuntu 19.10 will be causing problems for the Wine camp at least in the near-term until an adequate solution is sorted out for providing their 32-bit Wine builds to Ubuntu users...

Wine Developers Appear Quite Apprehensive About Ubuntu's Plans To Drop 32-Bit Support  Phoronix

It's looking like the plans announced by Canonical this week to drop their 32-bit packages/libraries beginning with Ubuntu 19.10 will be causing problems for the ...

With Regolith, i3 Tiling Window Management Is Awesome, Strange and Easy  LinuxInsider.com

Regolith Linux brings together three unusual computing components that make traipsing into the i3 tiling window manager world out-of-the-box easy. Much of ...

WslRegisterDistribution failed with error 0x8007019e and 0x8000000d – WSL  TWCN Tech News

The WslRegisterDistribution failed error: 0x8007019e for WSL is caused due to absence of supporting Windows features for WSL. Learn how to enable them.

Adding to the excitement of GNOME 3.34 and the many changes being worked on is Mutter seeing the initial merging of transactional kernel mode-setting (KMS) support...

Kubernetes 1.15 Releaased, Offensive Security Reveals the 2019-2020 Roadmap for Kali Linux, Canonical Releases a New Kernel Live Patch for Ubuntu 18.04 and 16.04 LTS, Vivaldi 2.6 Now Available, and Mathieu Parent Announces GitLabracadabra  Linux Journal

News briefs for June 20, 2019. Kubernetes 1.15 was released yesterday. This is the second release of the year and contains 25 enhancements. The two main ...

More AMD Navi GPUs show up in a Linux driver  TechRadar

A since-deleted commit for a Linux driver update hints at 4 new AMD Navi GPUs.

Security-Oriented Alpine Linux Receives Serial & Ethernet Support for ARM Boards  Softpedia News

Natanael Copa's security-oriented Alpine Linux operating system has been updated to version 3.10.0, a major release that brings several new features, various ...

Linux Cryptominer Uses Virtual Machines to Attack Windows, macOS  BleepingComputer

A new cryptocurrency mining malware dubbed LoudMiner uses virtualization software to deploy a Linux XMRig coinminer variant on Windows and macOS ...