Open-source News

3 ways to install Linux packages on your Chromebook  Chrome Unboxed

The friends at LunarG who maintain the Vulkan SDK today announced their new Vulkan Configurator tool, accessible via the vkconfig command and installed as part of the SDK...

Moving from an RTOS to Linux - Practical Insights Nobody's Telling You  Embedded Computing Design

5 open source software applications for virtualization  TechTarget

Wine 5.16 is out as the latest bi-weekly development release leading up to next year's Wine 6.0...

Advance your Linux skills with these 3 command line primers  TechRepublic

Protecting Linux-based Systems from Russion Cyber-Espionage Malware, Drovorub  WIND

Google Engineer Calls For Greater Collaboration On Speculative Execution Mitigations  Phoronix

When it comes to kernel address space isolation (ASI) and other yet-to-be-merged security features around fending off speculative execution attacks, there are multiple concurrent efforts by many of the public cloud providers and other hyperscalers. A Google engineer at this week's Linux Plumbers Conference has called for more collaboration in this area to ideally provide a unified solution...

NORTON +1817 591-0403 Tech Support Phone Number Toll free - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

Why I have a problem with AppImages on Linux  TechRepublic

'Lemon Duck' Cryptominer Aims for Linux Systems  BankInfoSecurity.com

At the end of June AMD quietly released a new version of the AMD Optimizing C/C++ Compiler. Noticing the new release this week, here are some benchmarks of AOCC 2.2 up against LLVM Clang 10 and GCC 10 with Ubuntu Linux while running from an AMD EPYC 7742 2P server for looking at the performance gains possible with the compiler optimizations.

After forgetting to release last week, Mesa 20.2-RC3 is out as the newest test build of this quarterly Mesa3D feature release for the collection of open-source OpenGL/Vulkan drivers...

K-12 Mobile Computing Shipments Operating System Market 2020 Witnessing Enormous Growth by 2028 | Top Key Players: Windows, Linux, iOS, Android  The Daily Chronicle

Microsoft to remove insecure TLS support on its Linux Software Repository  BleepingComputer

Cyber Security Today – Alert to Linux administrators, attack on Outlook and crooks cashing in on online games  IT World Canada

An alpha prototype of openSUSE "Jump" is now available for testing of this new build of openSUSE...

For those looking at enjoying some open-source Linux gaming this weekend, SuperTuxKart 1.2 is out as the Mario Kart inspired racing game that is cross-platform and features the Linux mascot Tux...

Russian Malware Attempts Cyber-Espionage Operations Against US  ClearanceJobs