Open-source News

It's been a while since having any major news to report on the once promising mobile Linux software platform Sailfish OS from Finnish vendor Jolla, but today they issued a big update in the form of "Pallas-Yllästunturi" or more easily known as Sailfish OS 3.4...

CrowdStrike Bolsters Endpoint Protection Platform with New Capabilities  StreetInsider.com

KDE's Plasma 5.20 is now available as a seriously great update to this open-source desktop environment...

CrowdStrike Bolsters Endpoint Protection Platform with New Capabilities  Business Wire

Krita 4.4 is out today as the latest release for this flagship open-source digital painting program...

How to install Dropbox headless on CentOS 8 Server - Linux Shout  H2S Media

The latest build of the Linux operating system is here at last  TechRadar

At the end of 2019 the lead developer of CUPS left Apple after he joined Apple and the company purchased the source code a decade prior for this long-standing open-source printing system used by not only macOS but also Linux and other Unix-like platforms. This unfortunately has not bode well for CUPS in 2020...

CUPS Printing System Open-Source Development Has Seemingly Dried Up  Phoronix

Linux Operating System Market to Witness Astonishing Growth by 2026 | IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint and more  The Think Curiouser

Hardware Monitoring Updates For Linux 5.10 Are Led By AMD Zen 3 Support  Phoronix

Hardware Monitoring Updates For Linux 5.10 Are Led By AMD Zen 3 Support  Phoronix

The hardware monitoring "hwmon" subsystem maintainer Guenter Roeck sent in the feature updates on Monday to Linux 5.10...

Open Invention Network Announces Continued Expansion of its Open Source Patent Non-Aggression Zone  GlobeNewswire

Global Linux Software Market Top Manufacturers : Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, IBM, etc.  Zenit News

How to Download Files From Terminal in Ubuntu & Other Linux  It's FOSS

How to Install Brave Browser on Ubuntu And Earn Rewards?  Fossbytes

Getting a new computer, whether physical or virtual, up and running is time-consuming and requires a good deal of work—whether it's your first time or the 50th. For many years, I have used a series of scripts and RPMs that I created to install the packages I need and to perform many bits of configuration for my favorite tools. This approach has worked well and simplified my work, as well as reduced the amount of time I spend typing commands.

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Using eBPF Monitoring to Know What to Measure and Why  Container Journal

Sometimes I'm looking around for a subject to write about, and realise that there's one that I assume that I've covered, but, on searching, discover that I haven't. One of those topics is measured boot and trusted boot—sometimes misleadingly referred to as "secure boot." There are specific procedures that use these terms with capital letters (e.g., Secure Boot), which I'm going to try to avoid discussing in this article. I'm more interested in the generic processes—and a major potential downfall—than in trying to go into the ins and outs of specifics.

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