Open-source News

Samba 4.12 Released With Performance Improvements, IO_uring Support  Phoronix

Samba 4.12 Released With Performance Improvements, IO_uring Support  Phoronix

How to run parallel commands on remote servers with PSSH  TechRepublic

Lair of the Clockwork God Mac and Linux versions available now  Thumbsticks

D9VK (now part of DXVK) developer Joshua Ashton has proposed a set of patches to Wine's Vulkan library (Winevulkan) that should help with performance...

The Panfrost open-source, reverse-engineered Arm Mali Gallium3D driver is seeing work on a new driver-specific IR and compiler back-end...

Critical PPP Daemon Flaw Opens Most Linux Systems to Remote Hackers  Internet

I restored a Crostini backup of Debian Stretch to Buster and it worked  About Chromebooks

BSD-focused vendor iXsystems has developed FreeNAS as their community-oriented NAS operating system while TrueNAS is what they ship on their storage solutions. FreeNAS and TrueNAS have been derived largely from the same code-base. Moving forward to TrueNAS 12.0 later this year, iXsystems is unifying FreeNAS and TrueNAS...

IOTA Foundation supported project Meta-iota achieves new progress  Crypto News Flash

LLVM 10.0 was supposed to be released at the end of February but is running slightly behind schedule and now there is a third and unscheduled final release candidate...

One of the new Intel drivers up for testing that is currently in the USB-next for the forthcoming Linux 5.7 kernel cycle is the Intel PMC Mux Control driver...

Intel PMC Mux Control Driver Coming For Linux 5.7 To Change USB-C Modes  Phoronix

How to run two different Firefox profiles at once on Linux  TechRepublic

TRITON-TX8M i.MX8M Mini / Nano Modules & Devkits Support Linux, Windows 10 IoT Core, and (Soon) QNX 7.0  CNX Software

Linux-Based Volla Phone Might Start Shipping In October  Fossbytes

Users can now try PowerShell 7 on Windows, macOS and Linux  WindowsReport.com

Back in the 1990s, when Linux was a young operating system, Ian Murdock invented the concept of an app store in the form of what is now the apt command. This introduced the idea that a computer's capacity was boundless, and literally any command should be available to you; all you had to do was copy it from a network repository to your local system.

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I've had a soft spot for Elementary OS since I first encountered it in 2013. A lot of that has to do with the distribution being very clean and simple.

Since 2013, I've recommended Elementary to people who I've helped transition to Linux from other operating systems. Some have stuck with it. Some who moved on to other Linux distributions told me that Elementary helped smooth the transition and gave them more confidence using Linux.

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I used WordPress for the first few years of my blog, but I really wanted to publish it entirely using GNU Emacs. I tried Org2Blog, but something was still missing and it felt unsatisfying.

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