Open-source News

This Week In Security: Iran's ITG18, ProcMon For Linux, And Garbage Collection Fail  Hackaday

5 best Linux games on Steam in 2020  Sportskeeda

Approaching two years already since the release of Mir 1.0 following its shift to Wayland support, Mir 2.0 is now available...

With System76 working towards offering more AMD Linux laptop options as well as continuing to expand their line-up of AMD desktop offerings, it appears their next hurdle is on bringing Coreboot to these current-generation AMD platforms...

There's An Effort By A System76 Engineer To Bring Coreboot To Newer AMD Platforms  Phoronix

There's An Effort By A System76 Engineer To Bring Coreboot To Newer AMD Platforms  Phoronix

Linux Operating System Market to Set Phenomenal Growth By 2024: openSUSE, Debian, Ubuntu Linux  3rd Watch News

New NAKIVO Backup & Replication v10 Features Linux Workstation Backup  ThomasNet News

Systemd 246 should be shipping in the days ahead...

DigiKam 7.0 is out for this KDE/Qt-aligned open-source photography manager solution...

Ubuntu Web: A Chrome OS Alternative Linux With Firefox Coming Soon  Fossbytes

Virtual Private Server Market by Operating System (Windows and Linux), Organization Size (SMEs and Large Enterprises), Vertical (BFSI, Government and Defense, IT and Telecommunication, Retail, Healthcare), and Region – Global Forecast to 2023  3rd Watch News

Roundup: UK's test and trace failing to contact thousands, France deploys AI-based cancer detection and more briefs  Healthcare IT News

The Linux Foundation has Announced a New Certification-CKS  Enterprise Security Mag

In this tutorial, we’ll cover the installation process of the latest edition of Eclipse IDE 2020‑06 in CentOS, Red Hat, and Fedora-based Linux distributions. Eclipse is a free integrated development environment IDE used by programmers

The initial batch of WiFi/wireless driver improvements slated for Linux 5.9 landed in net-next this week with a few noteworthy additions...

Linux 5.9 To Support 6GHz WiFi With Qualcomm's Ath11k Driver  Phoronix

Artificial general intelligence (AGI), which is the next phase of artificial intelligence, where computers meet and exceed human intelligence, will almost certainly be open source.

AGI seeks to solve the broad spectrum of problems that intelligent human beings can solve. This is in direct contrast with narrow AI (encompassing most of today's AI), which seeks to exceed human abilities at a specific problem. Put simply, AGI is all the expectations of AI come true.

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It can take a while to understand the concept of open source software—at least for me, it was difficult to understand why anyone would develop a product and then open it up to the entire world. It is a general assumption that products are developed to be sold, not to be given for free, and I saw software as such a product. After a while, however, the value of open source, especially in terms of product development, became clearer to me.

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tar is a widely used command-line based utility for combining a bunch of files and/or directories into one archive file, commonly known as a tarball for backup or distributions purposes. The tar command is