Open-source News

The V3D Gallium3D driver that most notably offers the open-source graphics support for the Raspberry Pi 4 is now an official OpenGL ES 3.1 implementation...

Should I upgrade from Windows 7 to Linux?  Windows Report

Last year, I brought you 19 days of new (to you) productivity tools for 2019. This year, I'm taking a different approach: building an environment that will allow you to be more productive in the new year, using tools you may or may not already be using.

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OpenStack stores and manages a bunch of log files on its Overcloud nodes and Undercloud host. Therefore, it's not easy to use OSP log files to investigate a problem you're having, especially when you don't even know what could have caused the problem.

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How to Use the history Command on Linux  How-To Geek

Rust is an increasingly popular programming language positioned to be the best choice for hardware interfaces. It's often compared to C for its level of abstraction. This article explains how Rust can handle bitwise operations in a number of ways and offers a solution that provides both safety and ease of use.

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Following the recent Linux kernel tests of Liquorix and other scheduler discussions (and more), some requests from premium supporters rolled in for seeing the performance of Arch Linux's Zen kernel package against the generic kernel. Here are those benchmark results...

Benchmarks Of Arch Linux's Zen Kernel Flavor  Phoronix

Benchmarks Of Arch Linux's Zen Kernel Flavor  Phoronix

Security updates play a crucial role in safeguarding your Linux system against cyber-attacks and breaches which can have a devastating effect on your critical files, databases and other resources on your system. You can...

Xiph.org's Rustlang-written "Rav1e" AV1 video encoder is back on track with delivering weekly pre-releases after missing them over the past month due to the holidays. With Rav1e p20200115 are not only performance improvements but also binary side and build speed enhancements...

Micro Focus AD Bridge 2.0: Extending security policies and access controls to cloud-based Linux  Help Net Security

It's been another day testing and investigating CVE-2019-14615, a.k.a. the Intel graphics hardware issue where for Gen9 all turned out to be okay but for Gen7 graphics leads to some big performance hits. Besides the Core i7 tests published yesterday in the aforelinked article, tests on relevant Core i3 and i5 CPUs are currently being carried out for seeing the impact there (so far, it's looking to be equally brutal)...

Red Hat Recommends Disabling The Intel Linux Graphics Driver Over Hardware Flaw  Phoronix

Red Hat Recommends Disabling The Intel Linux Graphics Driver Over Hardware Flaw  Phoronix

Mir 1.7 was released today as the newest feature release for this Ubuntu-focused display stack that for the past two years now has focused on serving viable Wayland support...

Cloud-based test farm lets you check out edge AI software on Linux dev boards  LinuxGizmos.com

Cloud-based test farm lets you check out edge AI software on Linux dev boards  LinuxGizmos.com

Locking and unlocking accounts on Linux systems  Network World

Crostini Linux disk space resizing is coming to Chrome OS  Chrome Unboxed