Open-source News

Linux Software Market (COVID-19 UPDATED) Global Players: Google, RedHat, Amazon, Twitter, Novell  Newark Now

Mesa's TURNIP Vulkan driver for open-source Qualcomm Adreno support took another big step forward this week with the mainlining of tessellation shader support...

A new tunable for the RADV driver is to disable bounds checking for dynamic buffer descriptors. The initial beneficiary of this driver workaround is for satisfying the Path of Exile role playing game running under Wine / Proton (Steam Play)...

RADV Vulkan Driver Adds New Workaround For Path of Exile Game  Phoronix

It wasn't even twenty four hours ago that Apple disclosed their plans for transitioning to in-house chips for future laptops and desktops and with that macOS 11. Already we are seeing the first of the LLVM compiler patches being upstreamed in preparing for the wild new Apple future...

Command-line tools like “top” make it hard to monitor CPU usage and memory usage. That’s why we today introduce you to vtop – is a free and open-source, simple yet powerful and extendable terminal...

Linux-based Set Top Box Market Challenges and Analysis By 2026|Skyworth, Huawei, Coship  Cole of Duty

Japan's ARM-Based 'Fugaku' Is Now The Fastest Supercomputer In World  Fossbytes

In this week’s edition of our open source news roundup, GNU Health expands to Raspberry Pis, how Megadeth's guitarist uses open source principles, and more open source news.

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The Homebrew project began its life as an unofficial Linux-style package manager for the Mac. Its users quickly fell in love with its friendly interface and helpful prompts, and—in what may seem like a strange twist of fate—it got ported to Linux.

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If you've ever written code, whether it's a shell script, a Python script, C++, or even Scratch, then you know that variables are vital. Computers and coders use variables as waystations, where they surreptitiously pass information back and forth. For instance, if you need to process a user's name in a shell script, you might set up a variable, put the username into the variable, and then instruct the computer to do something to the variable (check it against a list of authorized users, for example).

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Microsoft is adding Linux, Android, and firmware protections to Windows  Ars Technica

I enjoyed using my terminal's green-on-black color scheme for many years. It is reminiscent of the DEC VT100/220 terminals that I used in college. I began to get bored with it earlier this year when I bought a tenkeyless keyboard from Hyper-X. The keyboard is black, and the keys are backlit in red, so I changed my terminal's colors to match. I think it looks really cool at night.

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In this guide, we shall take a look at how you can install the latest version of Nodejs and NPM in RHEL, CentOS, Fedora, Debian, and Ubuntu distributions. Read Also: NVM – Install and...

Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Joins the Open Invention Network Community  GlobeNewswire

Linux Software Market: Global Analysis Of Key Manufacturers, Dynamics & Forecast 2020-2026  Jewish Life News

Google’s Nearby Share to Come in Windows, Mac and Linux Soon  TrueTech

Intel has landed their Mesa OpenGL/Vulkan driver support for their "DG1" discrete graphics card!..

Intel DG1 Graphics Card Support Lands In Mesa 20.2 For OpenGL / Vulkan  Phoronix

Intel DG1 Graphics Card Support Lands In Mesa 20.2 For OpenGL / Vulkan  Phoronix