Open-source News

Intel SGX Linux Patches Posted For Their 30th Round Of Review  Phoronix

For Linux Desktop Users - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

For a number of months now various Google engineers have been working on inline encryption support for FSCRYPT in order to offer better encryption performance on modern SoCs. That FSCRYPT side work is coming together and now also queued up for Linux 5.8 is plumbing inline encryption into blk-mq...

Linux 5.8's Multi-Queue Block Code Plumbed To Support Inline Encryption  Phoronix

Windows vs Linux vs Mac OS – Which is Best ?|New video by Technical Sagar on YouTube  stopthefud

Was This Huawei’s Failed Attempt at a Linux Backdoor? – Security Boulevard  stopthefud

Global MS Office Alternative Software for Linux Market 2020 Key Drivers and Restraints, Regional Outlook, End-User Applicants by 2025  Surfacing Magazine

Python follows the EAFP (Easier to Ask Forgiveness than Permission) rather than the LBYL (Look Before You Leap) philosophy. The Python philosophy of EAFP is somewhat linked to its "duck typing" style of coding.

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If you've ever visited a project on GitHub (for instance) with the intention of understanding how it fits into a larger system, you'll recognise the sigh of relief you experience when you find a diagram or two on (or easily reached from) the initial landing page. This is an article about the importance of architecture and specifically about the importance of diagrams.

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If you want to help grow awareness around securing open source software, take the State of Open Source Survey. 

Why it is important, you ask? Every year numerous security vulnerabilities are reported across multiple ecosystems. This report, since 2017, has been a go-to aggregation point of security concerns across application libraries in PyPi, Go (aka Golang), npm, Maven Central, and PHP Packagist.

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Announced over one year ago was the Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 Accelerator as designed for offering superior AI inference performance in the cloud. Since then not much has been heard of this accelerator but their engineers did publish a Linux driver on Thursday...

Linux Driver Prepared For The Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 Accelerator  Phoronix

Linux Driver Prepared For The Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 Accelerator  Phoronix

Varnish Cache lacks native support for SSL/TLS and other protocols associated with port 443. If you are using Varnish Cache to boost your web application’s performance, you need to install and configure another piece...

Git 2.27-rc0 was released on Thursday as the first test release towards the next update on this leading version control system...

Zfs proxmox  Butterfield Advocate

While Microsoft executives in past years have called open-source/Linux a "cancer" and other FUD, current President of Microsoft, Brad Smith, acknowledges they were wrong in those past remarks...

Microsoft President Brad Smith Acknowledges They Were Previously Wrong On Open-Source  Phoronix

Microsoft President Brad Smith Acknowledges They Were Previously Wrong On Open-Source  Phoronix

Toradex unveils Apalis i.MX8X module with Torizon Linux support  LinuxGizmos.com