Open-source News

Threat to Windows and Linux cannot be really put in the same basket  iTWire

Here's a bootcamp that could help land a $146,000 Linux cloud engineering job  TechRepublic

A merge request opened at the end of last week would now have the Mesa Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver default to using the Valve-backed ACO shader compiler in place of the default LLVM AMDGPU back-end...

Ubuntu Unity brings back one of the most efficient desktops ever created  TechRepublic

The CentOS crew maintaining this community enterprise Linux operating system rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux have announced their RHEL 8.2-based release...

Since yesterday's big release of Linux 5.8-rc1 I have begun benchmarking this new kernel on various systems. Here are some tests on the first system that was being vetted, the Intel Core i9 10900K Comet Lake with Radeon RX 5700 XT graphics...

Linux-Fu: Automation For Chrome And The Desktop By Matching Screenshots  Hackaday

PinePhone postmarketOS community edition coming soon for $150 (Linux smartphone)  Liliputing

Linux-ready, 3.5-inch Coffee Lake SBC has four USB 3.1 Gen2 ports  LinuxGizmos.com

AutoTux Review: A Linux Distro That Fully Automates Installation Process  Fossbytes

Intel is confirming today that Control-Flow Enforcement Technology (Intel CET) will premiere with upcoming mobile Tiger Lake processors...

Being about six months out from the planned release of Qt 6.0, The Qt Company has issued its first snapshot of this forthcoming tool-kit update...

Canonical's Daniel van Vugt who is known for his prolific contributions to GNOME the past several years particularly in regards to performance has a new merge request open for helping with the "smoothness" of the NVIDIA driver on GNOME Shell...

This weekend we reported on how injecting ACPI tables could lead to bypassing Linux's lockdown / UEFI Secure Boot protections and let attackers load unsigned kernel modules. That earlier issue was found on a patched version of the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS kernel while now a similar attack vector has been discovered on the mainline Linux kernel...

Entangle 3.0 has been released as the newest feature update to this software for controlling your DSLR camera under Linux with tethered shooting capabilities...

Entangle 3.0 Released For Tethered Shooting With DSLR Cameras On Linux  Phoronix

Why I Still Use Linux on the Desktop  ITPro Today

Linux Patches Provide Corsair Commander Pro Support For Thermal / Fan / RGB Controller  Phoronix

The Corsair Commander Pro is a controller that offers six 4-pin fan ports with PWM control, two RGB LED channels for RGB LED light strips and fans, and four thermistor inputs. This thermal/cooling/lighting controller is seeing Linux support via a third-party driver...

The Apache webserver is an opensource and popular HTTP web server that continues to enjoy a massive market share in the hosting industry. It ships with loads of features including module enhancements, multi-protocol support,...