Open-source News

Deviceplane wants to bring over-the-air updates to Linux edge devices  TechCrunch

How to install LibreOffice for Linux on a Chromebook after downloading it as a tar.gz file  About Chromebooks

Aaron Griffin is stepping down as the Arch Linux Project Leader, who has led the distribution since 2007 where under his tenure Arch Linux boomed in popularity. With him stepping away due to minimal time to invest in the project, a process for selecting a new leader has formed...

Hey, remember Microsoft's IoT Linux gear? After two years, Azure Sphere is finally here  The Register

Linux Gamers And Creators Should Pay Attention To Arch-Based Salient OS  Forbes

While the Linux 5.5 kernel landed Broadcom BCM2711 SoC and Raspberry Pi 4 enablement, one of the loose ends has been getting the open-source "VC4" DRM driver wired up for the display hardware on this latest Raspberry Pi. Patches are now pending for VC4 DRM to provide that display support and could potentially see it mainlined for Linux 5.7...

VC4 DRM Driver Gets Patched For BCM2711 / Raspberry Pi 4 Support  Phoronix

Besides Clear Linux delivering often leading x86_64 Linux performance at run-time, when it comes to boot performance it has also been at the forefront -- in some configurations, can boot in 300 ms. Intel has invested significantly in ensuring Clear Linux boots as fast as possible for when running in the cloud or on containers in order to respond to increased demand as quickly as possible as well as for use-cases like Clear Linux within automobiles where they need to get automobile cameras active within two seconds of power on. One of their many kernel patches could be on its way to the mainline kernel...

One Of Clear Linux's Kernel Patches To Help With Boot Time Proposed For Upstreaming  Phoronix

One Of Clear Linux's Kernel Patches To Help With Boot Time Proposed For Upstreaming  Phoronix

Intel today formally announced their "Cascade Lake Refresh" Xeon processors with higher clock speeds in some cases but also more aggressive pricing to go up against the AMD EPYC 7002 series...

Canonical's Daniel Van Vugt continues focusing on GNOME performance optimizations and this past week still managed to squeeze another optimization out of the near-final GNOME 3.36...

Microsoft's Azure Sphere, its Linux-based microcontroller plus cloud service, hits general availability  ZDNet

For four years we have been seeing Intel Secure Guard Extensions (SGX) bring-up for the Linux kernel and that work continues with the Intel SGX Enclaves support now having been sent out for review twenty-seven times as it tries to work its way towards the mainline Linux kernel...

27th Time The Charm? Intel SGX Enclaves Support For Linux Revved Again  Phoronix

Open source should learn from Linux, not MySQL  TechCentral.ie

There still is no sign of the long overdue X.Org Server 1.21 but the changes for it continue to build up particularly on the XWayland front...

Following the PCI Express 6.0 announcement from last summer that called for 64 GT/s transfer rates, version 0.5 of the PCIe 6.0 specification is now out for evaluation...

In addition to PipeWire 0.3 having shipped last week, also making it out a few days prior was a development snapshot in the road to PulseAudio 14.0...

Kali Linux explained: A pentester's toolkit  CSO Online