Open-source News

NVIDIA's Nitin Gupta continues working on proactive compaction for the Linux kernel's memory management code...

NVIDIA Engineer Continues Working On Proactive Memory Compaction For Linux  Phoronix

MidnightBSD is one of the easy-to-use, desktop-focused BSDs that makes it easy to run GNOME and other desktops like Lumina atop its FreeBSD base. MidnightBSD 1.2 was released on Halloween as an update providing updates to its base system and various fixes...

Global Rising Importance For Linux Operating System Market 2020 Evaluates High Growth And Key Players Study - The State News  BBState

A Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server dynamically assigns IP addresses and other network configuration parameters to each device on a network. A DNS forwarder on a LAN forwards DNS queries for non-local domain...

SUSE Brings Enterprise Linux to Oracle Cloud to Meet Growing Demand  AiThority

nnn is an excellent command line based file manager for Linux, macOS and BSDs  Ghacks Technology News

Awk is the ubiquitous Unix command for scanning and processing text containing predictable patterns. However, because it features functions, it's also justifiably called a programming language.

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Another weekend rolls around, and I can spend some time working on my passion projects, including working with single-board computers, playing with emulators, and general tinkering with a soldering iron. Earlier this year, I wrote about resurrecting the Commodore Amiga on the Raspberry Pi. A colleague referred to our shared obsession with old technology as a "passion for preserving our digital culture."

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Open source is a good thing. Open source is a particularly good thing for security. I've written about this before (notably in Disbelieving the many eyes hypothesis and The commonwealth of open source), and I'm going to keep writing about it. In this article, however, I want to talk a little more about a feature of open source that is arguably both a possible disadvantage and a benefit: the difference between a project and a product.

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Linux, Dell and IOTA team up for Project Alvarium, IOT/USD price falls  FXStreet

Dell has been offering the Dell XPS 7390 in "Developer Edition" form with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS for this newest XPS generation using 10th Gen Comet Lake CPUs while now they have added more hardware configuration options...

Following last week's release of Chrome 78, Google today promoted Chrome 79 to their beta channel...

While we long to finally see GIMP 3.0, GIMP 2.10.14 is out as the newest stable update for this leading open-source image manipulation program...

Linux Mint 19.3 'Tricia' is coming — here's what we know  BetaNews

Chinese Hackers Steal SMS Messages from Linux Routing Servers  BleepingComputer

Linspire 8.5 Linux Operating System Released, Based on Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS  Softpedia News

With Mesa 19.3 having been branched yesterday, hitting Git master today as an early change for Mesa 20.0 is an overhaul to the Intel "ANV" open-source Vulkan driver's buffer object (BO) allocation code...

Digilent embraces SYZYGY expansion with new Linux-on-Zynq SBCs  LinuxGizmos.com

Tbe Khronos Group has launched the Vulkan Unified Samples Repository, a Git repository on GitHub for Khronos-reviewed, high-quality Vulkan code samples...