Open-source News

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...

Thanks to Linux on Chrome OS, you can play the ‘Game of the Decade’ on your Chromebook [VIDEO]  Chrome Unboxed

Linux Star Trek fans, rejoice: CBS All Access now works in your OS [Updated]  Ars Technica

Solus Shines With Plasma Desktop Options  LinuxInsider.com

Solus Shines With Plasma Desktop Options  TechNewsWorld

Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu Linux Performance On A $199 AMD Ryzen Laptop  Phoronix

When carrying out our Windows vs. Linux benchmarks we normally are doing so on interesting high-end hardware but for today's benchmarking is a look at how a $199 USD laptop powered by an AMD Ryzen 3 3200U processor compares between Windows 10 as it's shipped on the laptop against the forthcoming Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Linux distribution.