Open-source News

How to get the newest version of Libre Office on Chrome OS  Chrome Unboxed

The fourth weekly release candidate of Linux 5.6 is now available for testing...

Linux 5.6-rc4 Kernel Released  Phoronix

Install the latest version of Firefox on your Chromebook with Nano  Chrome Unboxed

KDE developers wrapped up February 2020 with many fixes and improvements throughout their desktop landscape...

Global Linux Operating System Market is said to have a potential scope for growth in the years by 2025- IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, openSUSE  News Times

Planet straps up multi-boot for Cosmo Communicator  ComputerWeekly.com

During last month on Phoronix were 276 original news articles and another 18 featured Linux hardware reviews / benchmark articles. Here is a look back at the most popular content and news stories for the month...

Linux 5.6, Threadripper 3990X, $199 AMD Laptop Topped Reader Interest In February  Phoronix

Linux 5.6, Threadripper 3990X, $199 AMD Laptop Topped Reader Interest In February  Phoronix

For those looking to experiment with a BSD-based desktop open-source platform, GhostBSD has been competing well as one of the few in this field. GhostBSD 20.02 is out and continues being based on TrueOS/FreeBSD stable packages while shipping the GTK-based MATE desktop environment as its out-of-the-box desktop solution...

Simple Patch Lets Amazon's EC2 Linux Network Driver Start ~90x Faster  Phoronix

With how ubiquitous the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is, one may have assumed that for years the software stack was already extensively optimized to insane levels, especially as it concerns the boot time for being able to quickly respond to changes in load... But it turns out there still is some low hanging fruit such as with Amazon's "ENA" network driver and a new patch allowing it to initialize 90 times quicker...

In a twitter exchange about ethical licenses, my friend Stephen O'Grady said something that I thought was sharp: 

the energy cost is only part of the issue. maybe it's significant over the long term, maybe not.

the collateral damage of the process to individuals and institutions with no other goal than protecting open source, however, is material IMO.

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What Are The Most Common Issues With Free Open Source Software?  Analytics India Magazine

Addressing a two year old bug report over screen rotation not working when running KDE Plasma on Wayland, that support is finally on the way...

On top of the last minute GNOME 3.36 work on scaled/transformed hardware cursors handling, there is some other interesting last-minute Wayland work on the Mutter side...

Coming a month after Weston 8.0 and a few weeks after Wayland 1.18 is Wayland-Protocols 1.19 (and subsequently Wayland-Protocols 1.20 over a snafu) as the collection of Wayland protocol specifications...

On top of all the Godot happenings for its Vulkan rendering support, the code-base for Godot 4.0 is also being cleaned up and among the other improvements being worked on are Wayland and EGL support...

Install Synaptic Package Manager on you Chromebook  Chrome Unboxed