Open-source News

Many MediaTek Wireless Driver Improvements On Deck For Linux 5.8  Phoronix

The Free Software Foundation's (FSF) annual conference LibrePlanet went fully virtual in 2020 due to ongoing issues caused by the coronavirus pandemic. In our last week of preparations before the live event, increasingly disturbing news related to the virus made us realize we could not responsibly hold our usual conference on software freedom in person while protecting the safety of our participants and their communities.

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Software Updater always drops screen to low-res after reboot - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

Market News: Linux Software Market Growth, Future, Size, Share And New Trends 2020 to 2025: Google, Twitter, Facebook  Cole of Duty

The first beta of the forthcoming PostgreSQL 13.0 is now available for evaluation. PostgreSQL 13 is coming with many new features with this article serving as a quick look plus some very preliminary benchmarks...

Published back in February were the Linux kernel enablement patches for a new "ComboPHY" driver for supporting the company's forthcoming Gateway SoC. That code is now set to be included in the next kernel cycle, Linux 5.8...

Intel ComboPHY Support Coming With Linux 5.8 For Their Gateway SoC  Phoronix

Linux I/O expert Jens Axboe who oversees the kernel's block layer and is employed by Facebook while working on IO_uring and other storage innovations has recently been working on async buffered reads support...

Async Buffered Reads Support Yielding Promising Results  Phoronix

Half-Life: Alyx , Valve has released a tool for creating mods and a Linux version of the game  Optocrypto

When Will Civilization 6's New Frontier Pass Work on Mac and Linux  GameRant

This week marked the release of the dav1d 0.7 AV1 video decoder with more performance optimizations thanks to more hand-tuned Assembly and other tweaking of this leading CPU-based AV1 video decoder. Here are benchmarks compared to the prior dav1d 0.5 and 0.6 releases...

Dav1d 0.7 Speedups Are Looking Great On Various Intel + AMD CPUs  Phoronix

With KDE Plasma 5.19 due for its stable release in early June, development efforts are beginning to focus on Plasma 5.20 for release later this year...

Trending News: COVID-19 Impact on Linux Operating System Market Growth, Size, Analysis and Trends to 2025: IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint  3rd Watch News

Linux laptop vendor uses a very surprising hack to protect your privacy  TechRadar

With the recently minted GCC 10 compiler there was a request to see some fresh benchmarks at different compiler optimization levels and flags like LTO...

Just hours after the release of Wine 5.9, the latest staging release is now available that is re-based to the latest upstream while continuing to toss in over eight hundred extra patches...

help with software - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

In this week’s edition of our open source news roundup, we share accessibility updates from Facebook and IBM, Microsoft's admission that it was wrong about open source, and more headlines you need to know.

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