Open-source News

With GNOME 3.38 due to be released next week, the GNOME Shell and Mutter development blog has put out their overview of all the improvements and new features to expect...

CoronaVirus Impact on Linux Operating SystemIBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, openSUSE  NJ MMA News

Using the Linux stat command to create flexible file listings  Network World

Xavier NX carrier features triple M.2 slots  LinuxGizmos.com

Lortu launches Lache: An SDK to transfer files three times faster.  EIN News

Google engineers today celebrating pushing the Android 11 sources to the Android Open-Source Project (AOSP) as part of the official Android 11 release...

In this week’s edition of our open source news roundup, Gitpod open sources its IDE platform, BraveDNS launches an all-in-one platform, and more open source news.

Engineers debut an open source-powered robot

Matthias Müller and Vladlen Koltun, two engineers at Intel, have shared their new robot to tackle computer vision tasks. The robot, called "OpenBot", is powered by a smartphone, which acts as a camera and computing unit. 

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For four years now since Fedora 25 the default GNOME Shell desktop environment has been using Wayland by default. Next spring with Fedora 34, the KDE Spin is finally planning a similar migration to use Wayland by default with the KDE Plasma desktop...

Linux-driven i.MX6ULL IoT gateway offers mini-PCIe and CANBus too  LinuxGizmos.com

Intel's September 2020 security advisories were posted today and include four security advisories around nine vulnerabilities...

Zorin OS 15.3 Officially Launched  Softpedia News

Q&A with Canonical's Alex Chalkias about Kubernetes 1.19 Enterprise Support and KubeCon  InfoQ.com

Amiga Quick File System Makes Minor Comeback In New Linux Kernel  Editorials 360

Developing AWS Glue ETL jobs locally using a container  idk.dev

CrowdStrike Expands Support for AWS Workloads and Container Deployments  StreetInsider.com

Nemo: Rock Linux on your Chromebook with this handy file manager  Chrome Unboxed

8 Best Linux Graphical Environment (GUI) to install on Ubuntu 20.04/18.04  H2S Media

Global K-12 Mobile Computing Shipments Operating system Market Analysis 2020: Windows, Mac OS, Linux, iOS, Chrome OS, Android  Red & Black Student Newspaper

When looking at the performance of Zink's OpenGL over Vulkan implementation just about one year ago the performance had a lot to be desired. But since then they have patches bringing it all the way to OpenGL 4.6 compared to the OpenGL 2.1 days and there has also been a lot of work on the performance. The performance at least for select operations is now turning out better than even the developers were expecting...

With Intel Gen11 graphics and newer supporting Adaptive-Sync / Variable Refresh Rate for minimizing tearing and stuttering, their open-source developers have now added the necessary bits to the generic xf86-video-modesetting X.Org driver for supporting the VRR functionality...