Open-source News

Linux Distro Alert: The Deepin 20 Beta Is Now Available  Forbes

How the Play Store could become Google’s one-stop-shop for all your Chromebook apps  Chrome Unboxed

How-to: Adding Debian Backports to Chrome OS  Chrome Unboxed

With coronavirus forcing us to work from home, SUSE suggests the Linux desktop  ZDNet

GNU Guix 1.1 Released With PulseAudio & Other Services, 3k+ New Packages  Phoronix

It's been nearly one year since the release of GNU Guix 1.0 as the transactional package manager and GNU/Linux system distribution while today that has been succeeded by Guix 1.1...

Debian Project Leader Sam Hartman has delegated a set of individuals to serve as the Debian Community Team, the project's replacement to the former Debian Anti-Harassment Team...

Fedora 33 this autumn is looking to make use of systemd-resolved by default rather than NSS-DNS for name resolution...

Fedora 33 Planning To Enable Systemd-Resolved By Default  Phoronix

How Chinese hackers exploited Linux servers undetected for eight years  Diginomica

Blend2D, a software-based 2D renderer with JIT pipeline construction with aims to be a high performance vector graphics engine, is now faster thanks to multi-threading...

With no sign of Solaris.Next either as Solaris 11.5 or Solaris 12, nor is it really expected to happen following Oracle's actions in recent years from layoffs to dismissing Solaris 12 when it was on their road-map at one point for 2017, Solaris 11.4 continues just being SRU'ed...

Oracle Punts Its Twentieth Update To Solaris 11.4  Phoronix

Logging Into Linux With A 1930s Teletype  Hackaday

Future AMD CPUs (more than likely, Zen 3) will be bearing larger CPU microcode sizes, resulting in the Linux kernel needing a change to load them...

The Linux Kernel Prepares For Larger AMD CPU Microcode Updates  Phoronix

Lutris 0.5.6 is out today as the popular open-source Linux game manager/launcher...

Ubuntu 4.10 “Warty Warthog” Review: Back To The First Ubuntu Linux Desktop  Fossbytes

As schools and universities are shutting down around the globe due to COVID-19, many of us in academia are wondering how we can get up to speed and establish a stable workflow to get our podcasts, online lectures, and tutorials out there for our students.

Open source software (OSS) has a key role to play in this situation for many reasons, including:

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Unlike traditional stock exchanges like the New York Stock Exchange that have fixed trading hours, cryptocurrencies are traded 24/7, which makes it impossible for anyone to monitor the market on their own.

Often in the past, I had to deal with the following questions related to my crypto trading:

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