Open-source News

KIOXIA Releases Latest KumoScale Software Suite, Enables Next-Gen Cloud Deployments  Business Wire

The Linux 5.9 kernel is slated to begin introducing new restrictions on allowing writes to CPU model specific registers (MSRs) from user-space...

Linux To Begin Tightening Up Ability To Write To CPU MSRs From User-Space  Phoronix

Linux To Begin Tightening Up Ability To Write To CPU MSRs From User-Space  Phoronix

MontaVista Launches Carrier Grade eXpress (CGX) 3.1 and Steps Up Yocto Alignment  Stockhouse

MontaVista Launches Carrier Grade eXpress (CGX) 3.1 and Steps Up Yocto Alignment  PRNewswire

IAR Systems Delivers Efficient Embedded Software Building on Linux #113168  New Kerala

PhotoGIMP is a GIMP mod for Linux, Windows and macOS that copies the aesthetics and order of Photoshop and functions like its shortcuts  Explica

While Intel has been providing daily snapshots of the oneAPI Data Parallel C++ (DPC++) open-source compiler, today marks the latest monthly feature compiler release to their cross-architecture language for direct programming that is based on C++ while leveraging SYCL, LLVM/Clang, and other open-source technologies for exploiting the potential of hardware from CPUs to GPUs and FPGAs...

Intel oneAPI DPC++ Compiler 2020-06 Released With New Features  Phoronix

Longtime KDE developer David Edmundson has issued a call for help in porting work for Plasma 6.0...

Microsoft extends enterprise security protections to non-Windows platforms  Fudzilla

Intel Squaring Away "Hours of Battery Life" Feature For New Notebooks On Linux  Phoronix

Intel's open-source Linux developers have got the Tiger Lake and Gen12 graphics support largely squared away at this point, but a few remaining features remain. One of the features new to Tigerlake/Gen12+ on the graphics side is HOBL, or "Hours of Battery Life", while the Linux support there is still being tidied up...

PhotoGIMP Brings the Photoshop Look and Feel to Linux  Softpedia News

Grml 2020.06 Released: A Debian-based Live Linux System For Sysadmin  Fossbytes

Trend Micro protects Cybage Software against security vulnerabilities  ELE Times

In our daily use of Linux/Unix systems, we use many command-line tools to complete our work and to understand and manage our systems—tools like du to monitor disk utilization and top to show system resources. Some of these tools have existed for a long time. For example, top was first released in 1984, while du's first release dates to 1971.

Over the years, these tools have been modernized and ported to different systems, but, in general, they still follow their original idea, look, and feel.

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A Linux terminal running Bash has a built-in history that you can use to track what you've been doing lately. To view a history of your Bash session, use the built-in command history:

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Machine learning platform MLflow joins the Linux Foundation  TechRepublic