Open-source News

Linux Foundation to improve open-source security with new initiative  SDTimes.com

Switching from the "Radeon" to "AMDGPU" kernel driver on Linux is possible for Radeon GCN 1.0/1.1 era graphics cards and doing so can mean slight performance benefits, the ability to run the AMDVLK or RADV Vulkan drivers, and simply making use of this better maintained driver. But having these original GCN graphics cards default to the modern AMDGPU driver appears held up by the lack of analog video output support with that driver...

Defaulting Radeon GCN 1.0/1.1 GPUs To Better Linux Driver Is Held Up By Analog Outputs  Phoronix

Red Hat changes certification rules in response to the coronavirus pandemic  ZDNet

Packaging and deploying .NET Core for Linux - Part 2  Microsoft - Channel 9

Red Hat, IBM, Google, Microsoft join group focusing on open source security  WRAL Tech Wire

Shiny New Linux Kernel 5.8 Comes With Highest Number Of Commits  Fossbytes

The Linux kernel work for making use of the x86_64 FSGSBASE instruction since Intel Ivy Bridge and since then AMD CPUs also is set to finally land with the in-development Linux 5.9 kernel. The FSGSBASE support has the possibility of helping Intel/AMD CPU performance especially in areas like context switching that had been hurt badly by Spectre/Meltdown and other CPU vulnerability mitigations largely on the Intel side...

After 5 Years, FSGSBASE Support Finally Ready For Linux To Enhance AMD/Intel Performance  Phoronix

The close_range() system call is intended to allow efficiently closing a range of file descriptors (or all file descriptors) of the calling task. This system call was devised in cooperation with FreeBSD developers...

Linux 5.9 Set To Bring "Close_Range" System Call - Coordinated With FreeBSD Developers  Phoronix

Linux 5.9 Set To Bring "Close_Range" System Call - Coordinated With FreeBSD Developers  Phoronix

How to Create a man Page on Linux  How-To Geek

Merged to GNOME's Mutter compositor is an API for Wayland to allow the launching of trusted clients...

One of the easiest ways to protect your Ubuntu systems is by keeping up to date software on them. Therefore applying updates frequently is an important part of maintaining secure systems. In this article,

There are many ARM changes coming to Linux 5.9, including support for Intel's Keem Bay...

Linux 5.9 Adds Intel "Keem Bay" Support, 8 Snapdragon Smartphones, AMD EthanolX BMC, Old Tegra Tablets  Phoronix

Crash dump, memory dump, core dump, system dump … all produce the same outcome: a file containing the state of an application's memory at a specific time—usually when the application crashes.

Knowing how to deal with these files can help you find the root cause(s) of a failure. Even if you are not a developer, dump files created on your system can be very helpful (as well as approachable) in understanding software.

This is a hands-on article, and can you follow along with the example by cloning the sample application repository with:

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As you navigate the world of IT and technology, there are some terms you come across repeatedly. Some of them are hard to quantify and may take on different meanings as time goes on. "DevOps" is an example of a word that seems (to me) to change depending on the person using it; the original DevOps pioneers might not even recognize what we call DevOps today.

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Linux commands for user management  TechRepublic