Open-source News

Rocket League Mac, Linux support will end in March  Stevivor

SELinux maintainer Paul Moore sent in the Security Enhanced Linux updates for the 5.6 merge window, which amounts to "one of the bigger SELinux pull requests in recent years."..

SELinux For 5.6 Kernel Sees Largest Change Set In A While  Phoronix

Data Telemetry Across Mac, Windows, & Linux  Security Boulevard

Linux on Chrome OS: Disk resizing and custom username now working in Canary Channel  Chrome Unboxed

Rocket League offers Mac and Linux refunds, explains platform shutdowns  Polygon

Chrome OS 81 to allow Linux username selection for Crostini  About Chromebooks

The FreeBSD project has issued their last quarterly status update for 2019...

Rocket League players on Mac and Linux get refunds after dropped support  Shacknews

Linux 5.5 SSD RAID 0/1/5/6/10 Benchmarks Of Btrfs / EXT4 / F2FS / XFS  Phoronix

Refunds now available for Rocket League on macOS and Linux  MSPoweruser

Last month were benchmarks of RAID benchmarks on four hard drives in not visiting the Linux HDD RAID performance in a while. Stemming from that article were requests of fresh tests of the SSD RAID performance on Linux 5.5 Git, so here are those results for single drive performance and RAID0 / RAID1 / RAID5 / RAID6 / RAID10.

Btrfs Ready For Linux 5.6 With Async Discard For Better Efficiency + Performance  Phoronix

Btrfs in the now-stable Linux 5.5 kernel is exciting for its new RAID1C3/RAID1C4 capability allowing three/four copies of data rather than just two while looking ahead to Linux 5.6 is further feature work on this Linux file-system...

Kubuntu Focus Linux laptop now available (for $1800 and up)  Liliputing

Rocket League Mac and Linux players can get a refund  Pak Gamers Republic

Psyonix Granting Refunds to Mac and Linux Rocket League Players  Appuals

In ruffling feathers of open-source Qt fans, The Qt Company announced a series of changes today to help foster their commercial business...

Chris Lattner, the founder of the LLVM compiler stack and sub-projects like the Clang C/C++ compiler front-end, has joined RISC-V firm SiFive...

Fresh off the Linux 5.5 release, the Free Software Foundation Latin America crew has debuted their GNU Linux-libre 5.5 downstream that continues to be focused on deblobbing the kernel of drivers requiring proprietary firmware and stripping out other code/functionality that is contingent upon non-free software bits and removing the ability to load closed-source kernel modules...