Open-source News

Debian Linux Reports Highest Bugs Since 1999, Ubuntu Ranks 5th: Report  Fossbytes

While we are very excited for Firefox 75 with Wayland and video acceleration improvements along with maturing Flatpak support, out today is Firefox 74.0 as the newest version of Mozilla's web browser...

Sculpt OS is the general purpose operating system built off the Genode operating system framework. Out now is their version 20.02 update that tries to make the OS more approachable...

Dav1d 0.6 is now available as a big update to this open-source AV1 video decoder developed by the VideoLAN crew...

Linux is the world's most vulnerable operating system  Fudzilla

Linux Has This Awesome Benchmarking Tool You Probably Haven’t Heard Of  Forbes

I am one of those people who immediately opens a terminal window after my computer boots up. It's not out of necessity at this point, but the habit is there. I spent most of my career learning its magical incantations, and I find navigating through my daily tasks on the terminal makes for a more enjoyable day at work. That all said, it's nice to try something new once in a while.

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For a long time, I've been interested in building a Kubernetes cluster out of a stack of inexpensive Raspberry Pis. Following along with various tutorials on the web, I was able to get Kubernetes installed and working in a three Pi cluster. However, the RAM and CPU requirements on the master node overwhelmed my Pi. This caused poor performance when doing various Kubernetes tasks. It also made an in-place upgrade of Kubernetes impossible.

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Wind River Four-Step Procedure to Secure Linux-Based Systems  WIND

Linux is the world's most vulnerable operating system  Fudzilla

The open organization community is spoiling us.

For months, writers have been showering us with multiple, ongoing series of articles, all focused on different dimensions of open organizational theory and practice. That's led to to a real embarrassment of riches—so many great pieces, so little time to catch them all.

So let's take moment to reflect. If you missed one (or several) now's your chance to catch up.

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Many people say they want to learn Emacs, but many of them shy away after the briefest encounter. It's not because Emacs is bad or even that complex. The problem, I believe, is that people don't actually want to learn Emacs; they want to be comfortable with Emacs traditions. They want to understand the arcane keyboard shortcuts and unfamiliar terminology. They want to use Emacs as they believe it's "meant to be used."

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The LibreOffice open-source office suite's Qt5 tool-kit integration so far has lacked HiDPI scaling support for dealing with modern high pixel density displays. But adding to the excitement for the LibreOffice 7.0 release later this year is now the Qt5 HiDPI scaling capability...

Mozilla Launches Firefox 74 for Windows, Linux, and Mac  Softpedia News

PPP Daemon flaw opens Linux distros, networking devices to takeover attacks  Help Net Security

Should you be experienced in upstream Linux kernel development, AMD is hiring a lead Linux kernel developer...

AMD Is Hiring Another Lead Linux Kernel Developer To Work On Their Graphics Driver  Phoronix

Snapdragon based modules and dev kits range from smart audio to 5G  LinuxGizmos.com

Snapdragon based modules and dev kits range from smart audio to 5G  LinuxGizmos.com

Mesa 19.3.5 was released today for ending out the Mesa 19.3 series as the Q4'2019 OpenGL/Vulkan driver release stream...