Open-source News

As part of my role as a senior product marketing manager at an enterprise software company with an open source development model, I publish a regular update about open source community, market, and industry trends for product marketers, managers, and other influencers. Here are five of my and their favorite articles from that update.

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Intel's P-State CPU frequency scaling driver for Linux systems has been seeing a number of refinements lately including some major changes like shifting towards the "Schedutil" scheduler utilization governor by default. Further tuning with new/changed knobs is also on the way for giving users more control over their CPU power / performance preferences...

Intel P-State Getting Energy Efficiency Knob, EPB Knob Change  Phoronix

Global Linux Operating System Market Expanding Rapidly with Forecast 2025 and Top Players : IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, openSUSE, Fedora Linux etc.  3rd Watch News

Microsoft’s New Chromium-Based Edge Browser Is Reportedly Stealing Data from Firefox Without Permission  Wccftech

Dell is finally shipping the XPS 13 Developer Edition with Ubuntu Linux 20.04 LTS  BetaNews

Microsoft has posted their initial patch implementing a Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver for the synthetic video device exposed by their Hyper-V virtualization stack...

Microsoft Posts Initial DRM Driver For Hyper-V Synthetic Video Device  Phoronix

Microsoft Posts Initial DRM Driver For Hyper-V Synthetic Video Device  Phoronix

One of many high profile features that didn't make it in time for Linux 5.8 is FGKASLR, Function Granular Kernel Address Space Layout Randomization...

FGKASLR Revised For Better Linux Security Via Enhanced Address Space Randomization  Phoronix

Microsoft gives us another look at the new Windows 10 Start Menu - MSPoweruser  MSPoweruser

Global Linux-based Set Top Box Market Forecast by Type and by Application (2021-2026) with Detailed Development History  Internet Shots

1. Microsoft Defender ATP Security Products Released for Linux and Android  Redmondmag.com
2. Microsoft is adding Linux, Android, and firmware protections to Windows  Ars Technica
3. Microsoft Defender ATP can now protect Linux, Android devices  BleepingComputer
4. Microsoft Defender ATP security service now available for Linux - MSPoweruser  MSPoweruser
5. Microsoft Defender ATP for Linux & Android (public preview) now available  WinCentral
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At the start of 2020 well known KDE developer Nate Graham who publishes the weekly status reports on their desktop environment posted a 2020 KDE roadmap of sorts. Now being half-way through the year, here is a look at how that roadmap is looking with what items have been completed, what is still being tackled, and what is looking less likely to be accomplished...

Idol Manager New Game+ Expo Trailer, Launches 2020 on Windows PC, Linux, and Mac  Niche Gamer

Up to 21.5-inch touch panels power up with Whiskey Lake  LinuxGizmos.com

Purism Librem Mini is now shipping (Linux mini PC with Intel Whiskey Lake CPU)  Liliputing

TCG Pushes for Security in Embedded, Automotive, and IoT Systems with Complete TPM 2.0 Software Stack  Embedded Computing Design

NVIDIA today released a new Vulkan beta driver for Linux systems at version 440.66.17...