Open-source News

‘Half-Life: Alyx’ Gets Workshop Support, Mod Tools And Linux Compatibility In Latest Update  Forbes

Nowadays, it is no surprise that a lot of universities, academies, colleges, conservatories, etc. have already implemented open source software in their learning process.

Open source culture and concepts help students, professors, and communities have a better learning experience, being independent of tech giants that always call the shots, and therefore free to share their ideas and build on the work of others.

Let's explore why open source software is so attractive for Higher Education Institutions (HEI) in Europe.

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Linux supports the implementation of a software network bridge to reproduce the function of a network bridge, a networking device that interconnects two or more communication networks or network segments providing a way for...

Google Posts Patches Allowing AMD Zen/Zen2 CPUs To Expose Power Usage On Linux Via RAPL  Phoronix

One of the long sought after features for AMD Zen (and Zen 2) processors on Linux has been the ability to monitor the CPU package power consumption on Linux, similar to what's long been available for Intel CPUs on Linux and similarly for older AMD Bulldozer era CPUs with a power monitoring driver. Now on Friday evening a patch series was posted by a Google engineer to provide this long sought after functionality...

Two days ago as part of the GPUOpen relaunch AMD released Radeon Rays 4.0 as their ray intersection library. Unlike the previous Radeon Rays release, however, this new Vulkan-enabled version was not open-source. But now AMD has decided that at least in large part it will be going back to open-source...

Half-Life: Alyx gets a Linux release, level editing tools, Vulkan support, and more  Neowin

On launch-day Valve had Half-Life: Alyx running on Linux via Steam Play while with the VR game's latest update is now a Linux-native build and Vulkan rendering support...

Little Linux wireless gateway keeps it simple  LinuxGizmos.com

Little Linux wireless gateway keeps it simple  LinuxGizmos.com

How to enable SSL on Ubuntu Linux for testing  TechRepublic

How to fix the apt-add-repository error on a Chromebook that runs Linux apps  TechRepublic

Modicia OS Ultimate Comes With Cool, Unique UI Twists  LinuxInsider.com

Intel's oneAPI crew just released version 2020-03 (though one would have thought it should be 2020-05) of their Data Parallel C++ (DPC++) compiler and with this release are several new features including the NVIDIA CUDA back-end...



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I installed PlayOnLinux on my Chromebook so you don’t have to  Chrome Unboxed

Microsoft's Brad Smith says company was “on the wrong side of history” regarding Linux  OnMSFT

This week Amazon announced the general availability of their EC2 "M6g" instances powered by their second-generation Graviton processors. Amazon is offering a variety of M6g instances with the Graviton2 CPU, including a bare metal instance. In this article are many benchmarks looking at the various Amazon EC2 M6g instances compared to other EC2 Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC instances as well as looking at the M6g Graviton2 metal performance up against various Intel/AMD CPUs in our lab.

PineTab Linux tablet goes up for pre-order this month for $100  Liliputing

Stinger96 SBC launches and joins 500-unit giveaway of STM32MP1x based 96Boards  LinuxGizmos.com