Open-source News

Simple Patch Lets Amazon's EC2 Linux Network Driver Start ~90x Faster  Phoronix

With how ubiquitous the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is, one may have assumed that for years the software stack was already extensively optimized to insane levels, especially as it concerns the boot time for being able to quickly respond to changes in load... But it turns out there still is some low hanging fruit such as with Amazon's "ENA" network driver and a new patch allowing it to initialize 90 times quicker...

In a twitter exchange about ethical licenses, my friend Stephen O'Grady said something that I thought was sharp: 

the energy cost is only part of the issue. maybe it's significant over the long term, maybe not.

the collateral damage of the process to individuals and institutions with no other goal than protecting open source, however, is material IMO.

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What Are The Most Common Issues With Free Open Source Software?  Analytics India Magazine

Addressing a two year old bug report over screen rotation not working when running KDE Plasma on Wayland, that support is finally on the way...

On top of the last minute GNOME 3.36 work on scaled/transformed hardware cursors handling, there is some other interesting last-minute Wayland work on the Mutter side...

Coming a month after Weston 8.0 and a few weeks after Wayland 1.18 is Wayland-Protocols 1.19 (and subsequently Wayland-Protocols 1.20 over a snafu) as the collection of Wayland protocol specifications...

On top of all the Godot happenings for its Vulkan rendering support, the code-base for Godot 4.0 is also being cleaned up and among the other improvements being worked on are Wayland and EGL support...

Install Synaptic Package Manager on you Chromebook  Chrome Unboxed

DXVK 1.5.5 is out this weekend as a big update to this Direct3D-over-Vulkan translation layer widely used by Linux gamers in running Windows games with decent speed...

Watch Linux Boot On Your Hackaday Superconference Badge  Hackaday

Raspberry Pi 4 Linux Computer Upgrade Adds 1Gb of RAM and USB-C  Tech Life

New NVIDIA Driver 440.64 Released With Linux Kernel 5.6 Support  Fossbytes

Following yesterday's Wine 5.3 release, Wine-Staging 5.3 was issued as the latest testing/experimental flavor of Wine. Wine-Staging 5.3 is still carrying 800+ extra patches compared to upstream Wine while it has updated its Event FD synchronization code and also added one important addition this cycle...

In 2020 we certainly didn't expect the Linux Gaming Publishing website to appear back online, years after their single server failed and ultimately faded away as one of the promising Linux game porters built up following the collapse of Loki Software...

Linux Game Publishing Brought Back Online For Archival Purposes  Phoronix

Linux Game Publishing Brought Back Online For Archival Purposes  Phoronix

KaOS 2020.02 Released: One Of The Best KDE Linux Distros For Desktop  Fossbytes

In this edition of our open source news roundup, GNOME beautifies the GTK website, the Linux Foundation’s released a report on security vulnerabilities, the FSF announces a new code-hosting site and the OSI board of directors is decided next week! 

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The Genode operating system framework is out with a new release along with its general purpose Sculpt OS operating system...