Open-source News

Fearful Huawei finds comfort in Deepin Linux on laptops  Technology Zimbabwe

Git is an essential tool in the open source developer's toolkit. This powerful version-control system has a lot of complex features. Not all of the features are necessary to use Git, but knowing more about how Git works makes working with Git easier.

During 2020, Opensource.com published many excellent articles about Git, including the top 10 covered below. Each article provides tips and tricks for improving and enhancing your Git experience.

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In 2020, Opensource.com's articles about continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) aimed to help you rethink your infrastructure with continuous delivery. If you're new to the CI/CD way of doing things or you need a refresher, read on for summaries of the top four CI/CD articles of 2020.

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The GNU Project had a very active year with the GNU toolchain in particular continuing to make major strides in punctually supporting new C/C++ features, continuing to enhance device offloading / accelerator support, support new CPU features, and more. GCC also saw its conversion this year finally over to Git among other accomplishments by the large number of GNU software projects...

GNU Had A Busy 2020 With The GCC Toolchain Still Rocking, Finally Converted To Git  Phoronix

How To Use Linux In Windows?  Fossbytes

Beautiful Deepin Linux 20.1 Arrives With Bluetooth File Transfer Support  Fossbytes

For years LLVMpipe has been around as a superior software-based OpenGL implementation for those without a working GPU / hardware driver support or needing to test a bit of GL code along a vendor-neutral path. LLVMpipe thanks to leveraging LLVM is more performant than the traditional Mesa software rasterizer or similar avenues like Softpipe. Finally as we hit 2021, SWRAST has been removed from the Mesa code-base...

You can now use your DualSense on Linux thanks to an official Sony driver  Explica

NVIDIA's RTX 30 "Ampere" launch was quite a success for 2020 along with new Jetson products and more. Meanwhile on the Linux front this year NVIDIA's proprietary driver continued providing same-day support, features roughly at parity to Windows, and little bread crumbs of open-source support so far. But there still are indications of more possible open-source actions to come as well as potentially better Wayland support to look forward to in 2021...

The Most Popular NVIDIA Linux News + Milestones Of 2020  Phoronix

Debian-based deepin Linux 20.1 is here and you should switch from Windows 10 now!  BetaNews

New Golang worm turns Windows and Linux servers into monero miners  SC Magazine

Fedora Workstation 33 successfully switched over from EXT4 to using Btrfs as its default file-system. Now with Fedora 34 due out in the spring we are seeing Fedora beginning to make use of more features offered by Btrfs...

Fedora Workstation 34 Looking To Employ Btrfs Zstd Transparent Compression By Default  Phoronix

At the start of Q4, Intel released Media SDK 20.3 with AV1 accelerated decode, Rocket Lake, DG1/SG1 discrete GPU support, and other improvements. Now to end out the quarter is a new release coming in at version 20.5.1...

PlayStation 5 DualSense controller to get support for Linux  Gamepur

Testing The Intel "Workload Hints" Capability Of Linux 5.11  Phoronix

There are many new features with the Linux 5.11 kernel that is presently under development but one of the ones I've been more curious about for how well it works is the Intel "workload hints" that can be passed via its thermal framework. This is about providing the system with hints of workloads being run to optimize the thermal/power properties.

Windows freezing for few seconds at a time since undervolting CPU [Big Post!] - Internal Hardware  BleepingComputer