Open-source News

Coreboot 4.11 was released today as the tagged autumn build of Coreboot that is used as an alternative to proprietary BIOS/firmware on motherboards...

As part of my role as a senior product marketing manager at an enterprise software company with an open source development model, I publish a regular update about open source community, market, and industry trends for product marketers, managers, and other influencers. Here are five of my and their favorite articles from that update.

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Mainlining of the WireGuard secure VPN tunnel was being held up by its use of the new "Zinc" crypto API developed in conjunction with this network tech. But with obstacles in getting Zinc merged, WireGuard was going to be resorting to targeting the existing kernel crypto interfaces. Instead, however, it turns out the upstream Linux crypto developers were interested and willing to incorporate some elements of Zinc into the existing kernel crypto implementation...

Linux's Crypto API Is Adopting Some Aspects Of Zinc, Opening Door To Mainline WireGuard  Phoronix

Dart 2.6 Adds Native Linux Support  iProgrammer

Flax Engine is the latest game engine seeing native Linux support and in the process the renderer also picked up Vulkan support...

Flax Engine Ported To Linux + Vulkan Rendering Support  Phoronix

Coin Stealer Found in Monero Linux Binaries From Official Site  BleepingComputer

NextCry Ransomware Goes After Linux Servers  Tom's Hardware

While the patches overnight about "substantial" improvement in power usage for Intel graphics on Linux were exciting on first look, it's less so now as it turns out last week's graphics driver security fixes is what regressed the Intel graphics power-savings...

Open Creation Network teams up with IBM, Linux Foundation, and Microsoft to protect open up-source program from patent trolls  Mash Viral

Open Invention Network teams up with IBM, Linux Foundation, and Microsoft to protect open-source software from patent trolls  ZDNet

In addition to AMD's SC19 announcements yesterday, their embargo just lifted on the Radeon Pro W5700 as their first 7nm workstation graphics card build on their new RDNA architecture...

Announced earlier this month, the Athlon 3000G is shipping today a week ahead of the Ryzen Threadripper 3000 series. The Athlon 3000G is AMD's new sub-$50 processor for lightweight desktop purposes...

Linux Operating System Market Analysis and Demand with Forecast Overview to 2026  Tech Admirers

In recent weeks AMD driver developers have been working on EXT_direct_state_access improvements within Mesa and following their latest code push today now support the D.S.A. extension for OpenGL compatibility profile contexts...

How to install TeamViewer on Ubuntu or any other Debian-based Linux distribution  H2S Media

VIA-owned Centaur Technology has finally announced their newest project past the decade old VIA Nano... Centaur Tech is rolling out an eight-core x86 SoC that features an integrated AI coprocessor...

Open Invention Network Teams with IBM, Linux Foundation and Microsoft to Further Protect Open Source from Patent Trolls  GlobeNewswire

We know where Rick (from Rick and Morty) stands on Intel vs AMD debate  The Next Web