Open-source News

Systemd Had A Pretty Big 2020 With Homed, OOMD Components Merged  Phoronix

Libmicrohttpd as the GNU project's embedded HTTP web server library is out with a final release of 2020...

Each of the past several years it has been interesting to monitor Microsoft's engagement in the open-source and Linux communities. Over 2020 there were interesting strides from Samsung upstreaming their improved exFAT file-system driver after having Microsoft's blessing to Microsoft contributing more and more to Mesa in leveraging the OpenGL/OpenCL code in various Windows components to new WSL2 capabilities...

2020 Was Another Interesting Year For Microsoft Around Open-Source/Linux  Phoronix

Git 2.30 is out today as the latest stable release update of this wildly-popular, distributed revision control system...

It didn't land for Linux 5.11 but it looks like Linux 5.12 could end up supporting Intel's "HDR Backlight Interface" for helping newer Intel laptops with their backlight controls where they don't comply with VESA specifications but rather catering to Intel's proprietary interface...

Linux 5.12 Could Support Intel's Proprietary HDR Backlight Interface  Phoronix

Sony's PlayStation 5 Controller Now Works With Linux  Tom's Hardware

This CentOS alternative will be available by spring 2021  Techradar

This CentOS alternative will be available by spring 2021  TechRadar

This CentOS alternative will be available by spring 2021  TechRadar

Sony's PlayStation 5 Controller Now Works With Linux  Tom's Hardware

This CentOS alternative will be available by spring 2021  TechRadar

Teardown: Creality Wi-Fi Box  Hackaday

While Linux 5.11-rc1 was just released yesterday, we have already been closely monitoring the new features of Linux 5.11 as well as carrying out early benchmarks. One area looking quite good so far are the Intel graphics performance and features with Linux 5.11, or more specifically Gen9 and newer while the latest Xe Graphics are obviously the most interesting from a benchmarking perspective.

If you want to travel next year, you may need a vaccine passport  KETV Omaha

If you want to travel next year, you may need a vaccine passport  WLWT Cincinnati

If you want to travel next year, you may need a vaccine passport  WBAL Baltimore

Linus Torvalds Turns 51 Today: Here Are 10 Interesting Facts About Him  Fossbytes

With the Linux 5.12 kernel next spring it looks like the Radeon RX 6000 "RDNA 2" overclocking support will be in order...