Open-source News

Databricks contributes Delta Lake to the Linux Foundation  TechTarget

Linux Software Market Competitive Landscape Analysis with Forecast by 2025  All Times Tech

Solus Brightens Computing Across the Linux User Spectrum  LinuxInsider.com

While we normally hear of rewriting code from Python and other scripting languages into C/C++ when its a matter of performance, in the case of Oracle Solaris it was taking old C code and modernizing it in Python 3 to yield a ~17x performance improvement...

As another release in time for weekend gamers, DXVK 1.4.3 was released today as the newest update for this library mapping Direct3D 10/11 to Vulkan for accelerating the Wine/Proton-based Linux gaming experience...

Four-Year-Old Critical Linux Wi-Fi Bug Allows System Compromise  Threatpost

A Linux Bug Can Be Exploited To Hack Systems Using Wi-Fi Signals  Fossbytes

Networking SBCs run Linux on quad -A53 and -A72 NXP LS chips  LinuxGizmos.com

For those wondering if -- or how much -- of a performance impact mitigations still make regarding Spectre for Intel's long-awaited 10nm+ Ice Lake processors, here is the rundown on the mitigation state and the performance impact.

Can Linux improve ATM security?  ATM Marketplace

This Week In Security: A Digital Café Américain, The Linux Bugs That Weren't, The Great Nation, And More  Hackaday

After Google dropped the open-source WireGuard app from their Play Store since it contained a donation link, the app has now been restored within Google's software store for Android users but without the donation option...

Global Linux Operating System Industry  GlobeNewswire

Global Linux Operating System Industry  Yahoo Finance

Global Linux Operating System Industry  Yahoo Finance

Meet The Linux Desktop That Will Blow Away Windows 10 And macOS in 2020  Forbes

Linux Wi-Fi bug leaves systems vulnerable to forced crashes and full control by hackers  TechRadar India

While swapping around CPUs for the AMD EPYC vs. Intel Xeon Cascade Lake testing of Facebook's RocksDB enterprise workload testing, I also took the opportunity for running some other recently updated test profiles on these EPYC/Xeon parts under test...

Linux Sudo bug could allow hackers root access  SC Magazine UK

As a change for next year's Xfce 4.16, the xfce4-panel now exposes a preferences option for those preferring "dark modes" of GTK themes...