Open-source News

Linux Really Shouldn't Expect an Influx of Windows Users Anytime Soon  Softpedia News

Wind River acquires Star Lab to improve its Linux security  ZDNet

Micro Focus Introduces Industry's First Active Directory Bridging Solution that Extends Security Policies and Access Controls to Cloud-based Linux  Yahoo Finance

Get Ready For The Manjaro Linux Laptop Explosion (Including AMD Ryzen Models)  Forbes

Here is another big feature coming for Linux 5.6: the Nouveau driver will have initial accelerated support for NVIDIA "Turing" GPUs! This is coming at long-last with NVIDIA set to release publicly the Turing firmware images needed for hardware initialization...

There Is Finally Open-Source Accelerated NVIDIA Turing Graphics Support  Phoronix

Intel's open-source graphics driver crew has submitted a final batch of updates to DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 5.6 kernel merge window. The DRM-Next cut-off is this week ahead of the Linux 5.6 window opening up at the start of February...

Intel Lands A Final Batch Of Graphics Driver Updates Ahead Of Linux 5.6  Phoronix

Intel Lands A Final Batch Of Graphics Driver Updates Ahead Of Linux 5.6  Phoronix

Linux Lite 4.8 Released As A Free And Light Windows 7 Alternative  Fossbytes

Linux Developers Start Poaching Microsoft Users After Windows 7 End of Support  Softpedia News

The Valve-backed ACO compiler back-end that is optionally used by the RADV Radeon Vulkan driver has continued growing in popularity with Linux gamers and also has continued maturing a lot for Mesa 20.0 that is due out later this quarter...

Intel Patches Security Vulnerability in Linux and Windows Drivers  Softpedia News

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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If you haven’t heard of WebAssembly yet, then you will soon. It’s one of the industry’s best-kept secrets, but it’s everywhere. It’s supported by all the major browsers, and it’s coming to the server-side, too. It’s fast. It’s being used for gaming. It’s an open World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the main international standards organization for the web, standard. It’s platform-neutral and can run on Linux, Macs, and Windows.

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Linux Founder Linus Torvalds Draws Ire for Criticizing Oracle ZFS  Tom's Hardware

I wrote a bunch of Bash scripts that make my life easier when I'm working with Git repositories. Many of my colleagues say there's no need; that everything I need to do can be done with Git commands. While that may be true, I find the scripts infinitely more convenient than trying to figure out the appropriate Git command to do what I want.

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Without seeing a new release of Wayland itself in nearly one year, a plan has been rolled out for having Wayland 1.18 in mid-February...

Coming to Linux last year with the 5.3 kernel was Intel Speed Select Technology support as a Cascade Lake feature for optimizing the per-core performance configurations to favor certain cores at the cost of reducing the performance capacity for other CPU cores. That Intel Speed Select (SST) support for Linux is now being enhanced with core-power controls...

The CPU or GPU temperature depends entirely on the usage of running programs or applications. Sensitive computer components such as CPUs have a finite lifespan and running them at a temperature that exceeds a...