Open-source News

Open source software is now mainstream; long gone are the days when open source projects attracted developers alone. Nowadays, users across numerous industries are active consumers of open source software, and you can't expect everyone to know how to use the software just by reading the code.

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Lazarus linked to malware framework MATA that target Windows, Linux, macOS  Backend News

Merging and sorting files on Linux  Network World

I am mostly a self-taught programmer. When I was growing up in the late 1970s, our elementary school had a small resource room with an Apple II computer. My brother and I fell into a group of friends that liked computers, and we all helped each other learn the system.

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NVMe 2.0's Zoned Namespaces (ZNS) functionality is now supported by the mainline Linux kernel...

Do you have an old laptop that has gathered layers of dust over time and you don’t exactly what to do with it? A good place to start would be to install a Linux

LibreOffice 7.0 Now Available on Linux, Windows, Mac  Softpedia News

While Fedora 33 is slated to default to the Btrfs file-system for desktop spins, for those on Fedora Server 33 or otherwise not using the defaults will have Stratis Storage 2.1 as another option...

Fedora 33 To Offer Stratis 2.1 For Per-Pool Encryption  Phoronix

The METRICFS file-system has been in use internally at Google since 2012 for exporting system statistics to their telemetry systems with around 200 statistics being exported per machine. They are now posting the METRICFS patches as open-source for review and possible upstreaming...

Google Opens Patches For "METRICFS" That They Have Used Since 2012 For Telemetry Data  Phoronix

Mesa 20.1.5 provides the latest stable open-source Vulkan/OpenGL graphics drivers for the Linux desktop as the newest bi-weekly milestone...

The Free Software Foundation has elected a new president following Richard Stallman's resignation last September from the FSF...

Linux Foundation Addresses Open Source Security  Security Boulevard

LibreOffice 7: Now more Microsoft-compatible -- and still free  ZDNet

AMD's RadeonSI Gallium3D driver has resorted to disabling SDMA (System DMA) async DMA engine support for all GFX9/Vega hardware due to issues plaguing some APUs...

Forget Windows, I just installed Elementary OS on my Chromebook and it’s awesome  Chrome Unboxed

FS-Cache Rewritten But Even Its Developers Are Hesitant About Landing It For Linux 5.9  Phoronix

FS-Cache Rewritten But Even Its Developers Are Hesitant About Landing It For Linux 5.9  Phoronix

FS-Cache provides the Linux kernel with a general purpose cache for network file-systems like NFS and AFS but also other special use-cases like ISO9660 file-systems. FS-Cache has been rewritten for better performance and reliability, among other benefits, and while it has been sent in as a pull request for Linux 5.9 even its own developers provide some caution over landing it this cycle...