Open-source News

Configuring AWS Linux Servers With LDAP  Security Boulevard

The Linux 5.6 media driver updates have landed in the kernel...

Linux 5.6 Media Updates Bring Improvements For Rockchip Users  Phoronix

Two important pieces of the GNU toolchain saw new releases to kickoff February...

Linux has Fixed Year 2038 Bug in Linux Kernel 5.6  TechViral

There is plenty of PCI work that landed for the Linux 5.6 kernel merge window...

Intel Gateway SoC Enablement Continues With Linux 5.6 Plus Other PCI/PCIe Changes  Phoronix

During the first month of 2020 on Phoronix were 305 original news stories and another 18 Linux hardware reviews / featured-length articles. Here is a look back at what has been exciting Linux and open-source enthusiasts so far in 2020...

Kernel Talk, AMD Hardware + Other Popular Linux Topics Of January  Phoronix

Kernel Talk, AMD Hardware + Other Popular Linux Topics Of January  Phoronix

In this edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look ProtonVPN apps going open, Microsoft's code analysis tool, Mozilla Thunderbird's new home, and more!

ProtonVPN apps go open source

People wanting to use the internet securely and privately do the deed using a Virtual Private Network (VPN). But which VPNs can you really trust? The company behind the popular ProtonVPN service made a big move to gain that trust by releasing the source code for all its apps.

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Intel on Friday released Deep Neural Network Library (DNNL) version 1.2, formerly known as MKL-DNN. With this release comes both new features and better performance...

Linux Mint Team Reveals New Features Of Mint 20 And LMDE 4  Fossbytes

The random changes have been sent in for Linux 5.6 that yield /dev/random behavioral changes and a new random flag...

/dev/random Is More Like /dev/urandom With Linux 5.6  Phoronix

Ingenic X1000 SoC Being Supported By The Linux 5.6 Kernel  Phoronix

Adding to the Linux 5.6 excitement is the hardware enablement of the MIPS-based Ingenic X1000 SoC...

University of Illinois and associated developers have released HPVM 0.5, their LLVM-based compiler infrastructure for Heterogeneous Parallel Systems with CPU execution and OpenCL-based NVIDIA GPU support...

Following on from last week's story that it was looking like Linux 5.6 would drop Intel MPX support, that has now taken place...

GNU C Library 2.31 (Glibc 2.31) should be releasing in the days ahead and is now under a hard freeze for this next feature release to this important libc implementation...