Open-source News

Linux Mint Continues Developing Hypnotix As New Open-Source IPTV Player

Phoronix - Tue, 12/01/2020 - 20:52
Linux Mint recently began developing a new open-source Linux IPTV player. That project "Hypnotix" is moving ahead and will be integrated with Linux Mint 20.1 while is also available as a standalone Debian package...

FreeBSD Merges WireGuard Support

Phoronix - Tue, 12/01/2020 - 19:24
The momentum of WireGuard continues with FreeBSD now having mainlined their port of this open-source secure VPN tunnel...

AMD's Zen 3 + RDNA2 Products Dominated November Along With The Apple M1

Phoronix - Tue, 12/01/2020 - 16:53
Another month of the tumultuous year that is 2020 is now in the books... At least in November were several exciting hardware announcements to help pass the time along with the exciting evolution of open-source software...

Try Jed as your Linux terminal text editor

opensource.com - Tue, 12/01/2020 - 16:02

You may have heard about Emacs and Vim and Nano, the quintessential Linux text editors, but Linux has an abundance of open source text editors, and it's my goal to spend December giving 31 of them a fair go.

In this article, I look at Jed, a terminal-based editor featuring a handy drop-down menu, which makes it especially easy for users who are new to terminal editors, as well as those who just don't like remembering keyboard combinations for every function.


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How this open source security tool halted significant DDoS attacks

opensource.com - Tue, 12/01/2020 - 16:01

In 2020, our ways of living and working were turned completely upside down in a matter of days. As COVID-19 began to spread across the globe, we brought our companies home, and staying connected to our colleagues, friends, and family online became a critical necessity.


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F2FS Proposal Adds Support For LZ4HC Compression

Phoronix - Tue, 12/01/2020 - 16:00
The Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) already supports LZO, LZ4, and Zstd compression while a proposal would also add support for LZ4HC...

Create universal blockchain smart contracts

opensource.com - Tue, 12/01/2020 - 16:00

Blockchain smart contracts have the ability to access off-chain data by integrating decentralized oracles. Before diving into how to use them, it's important to understand why smart contracts matter in the big picture and why they need oracles for data access.


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Another Linux FBDEV Drover Poised For Removal In Favor Of Superior DRM Alternative

Phoronix - Tue, 12/01/2020 - 13:19
For years there have been calls to deprecate Linux's FBDEV and work around replacing FBDEV drivers with modern Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) drivers. While hardware vendors are now trending in the direction of DRM drivers (and the FBDEV emulation support if needed) after the embedded space was somewhat of a holdout, FBDEV drivers and the subsystem still exist as we roll into 2021. But at least one more FBDEV driver is now looking likely for removal in favor of its modern and maintained DRM counterpart...

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