Open-source News

U-Boot 2020.10 released on Monday as the latest quarterly feature update to this open-source bootloader popular with embedded devices...

You Can Now Use 'Darling' to Run macOS Software on Linux  iPhone in Canada

Git 2.29 is on the way with today marking the availability of the initial release candidate...

Python 3.9 is out today as the newest feature update to this extremely popular language in open-source crowds...

With upstream work Red Hat is engaged in for supporting HP and Lenovo laptops on Linux, a new standardized sysfs interface is being discussed for exposing the performance-profile option on newer laptops so users can more easily select their desired laptop power/performance characteristics...

Linux Could Soon Have A New Knob For Toggling Performance/Power-Profile For Laptops  Phoronix

How To Upgrade From Fedora 32 To Fedora 33 [CLI & Graphical Methods]  Linux Journal

Nov. 10 | Getting real about the license complexity of Linux  Compliance Week

Vulkan 1.2.156 was released this morning and while it's a small revision to the API documentation it does come with a new extension...

Crypto-mining malware adds Linux password stealing capability  BleepingComputer

Crypto-mining worm adds Linux password stealing capability  BleepingComputer

Developer brings mainline Linux Kernel support to the Sony Xperia M4 Aqua with unofficial Android 11 custom ROM  XDA Developers

NVIDIA's online GTC 2020 event kicks off today with a ton of announcements coming across the wire but not one many Linux users have been clamoring to hear more about...

NVIDIA Online GTC 2020 Kicks Off Today But No Open-Source Linux Announcement Expected  Phoronix

Monster Prom 2: Monster Camp Launches October 2020 on PC, Linux, and Mac  Niche Gamer

Last year NVIDIA announced the Jetson Nano at $99 USD as their lowest-priced ARM SBC board to date focused on inference, robotics, and other GPU-accelerated tasks in a small, low-power form factor. The Jetson Nano at $99 USD is already significantly cheaper than the other numerous Jetson boards over the past several years while now today they are introducing a $59 board.

AMD released an updated Radeon Software for Linux packaged driver at the end of September that went seemingly unnoticed. Only today when seeing "20.40" firmware binaries hitting the linux-firmware.git tree was I even aware of this updated packaged AMD Radeon Linux graphics driver focused on enterprise distributions...

Radeon Software for Linux 20.40 Released With RX 5300 Series Support  Phoronix

Radeon Software for Linux 20.40 Released With RX 5300 Series Support  Phoronix

Canonical kernel engineer Andrea Righi has sent out an updated patch series implementing opportunistic memory reclaim support as a way of forcing the kernel to attempt to reclaim system memory...