Open-source News

Intel used AMD code to get a 10% frame-rate boost in some Linux games  TechRadar Singapore

WireGuard VPN added to Linux 5.6  TechRadar India

WireGuard VPN added to Linux 5.6  TechRadar UK

Intel has seemingly just updated their public programming reference manual as well as sending out some new patches to the GCC compiler for supporting new instructions on yet-to-be-released CPUs...

Linux Mint 20 "Ulyana": All New Features And Release Date  Fossbytes

Ubuntu Linux publisher Canonical launches Managed Apps for enterprise DevOps teams  BetaNews

The Linux 5.7 Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) updates have been submitted as the kernel graphics driver changes for this next kernel feature release. As usual, there is a lot of work especially on the Intel and AMD Radeon side while nothing was queued for the open-source NVIDIA (Nouveau) driver...

Linux 5.7 Graphics Driver Updates Enable Tiger Lake By Default, OLED Backlight Support  Phoronix

If you are looking for a new desktop-friendly BSD with TrueOS being phased out, GhostBSD 20.03 is out as the promising desktop-focused OS based on FreeBSD and using the MATE desktop environment as a decent out-of-the-box experience...

Telecom HPE, Intel and Linux Foundation building open source software for 5G core  Fudzilla

Is the Switch from Windows to Linux Really That Hard?  Softpedia News

WireGuard VPN added to Linux 5.6  TechRadar Singapore

There's growing awareness in the design community about the importance of design ethics and the way proprietary technology subjugates users. As a user experience designer, I believe technology should be designed to respect the earth as well as creators and users. Using and contributing to Linux is one way to align my design ethics with my practice.

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When reaching for a templating language for writing a Python web application, there are an abundance of robust solutions. 

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Kanban is nothing new; in fact, it predates most readers of this article. Its age becomes apparent when we add the year Toyota introduced kanban in its main plant machine shop (1953) to the timeline image from our analyzing the DNA of DevOps article.

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Upcoming Ubuntu 20.04-based Linux Mint 20 Drops 32-Bit ISO  Fossbytes

I recently came across Jenkins Configuration as Code (JCasC), an interesting project that uses YAML formats for writing Jenkins configurations.  YAMLs have been used in Kubernetes (and OpenShift), Ansible, and many other things. In this article, I will explain how to get started with JCasC. You will need a working Podman installation on your system, so follow Podman's Getting Started guide if you need to set it up first.

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strongSwan is an open-source, multi-platform, modern and complete IPsec-based VPN solution for Linux that provides full support for Internet Key Exchange (both IKEv1 and IKEv2) to establish security associations (SA) between two peers. It...

QEMU 5.0-rc1 was released on Tuesday as the latest development release in the path to QEMU 5.0.0 expected to be achieved later this month...

QEMU 5.0-rc1 Released For Linux Virtualization With The Stable Update Coming This Month  Phoronix