Open-source News

Hot On The Heels Of Mellanox, Nvidia Snaps Up Cumulus Networks  The Next Platform

Exciting times in Mozilla land as in addition to the recent Wayland improvements along with Flatpak availability and WebGPU support coming together, the newest Firefox Nightly builds now have AV1 Image File Format (AVIF) support...

For the x86_64 Zhaoxin CPUs made in China and based on VIA Centaur IP there is now proper support for them within the GNU C Library...

Ubuntu 20.04: Welcome to the future, Linux LTS disciples  Ars Technica

AMD Radeon Linux Gaming Performance On Mesa 20.1 Looking Good With RADV+ACO  Phoronix

Since its mainlining in Mesa 20.0, the Valve-backed ACO compiler back-end for the Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver has been helping to reduce game load times and often increasing overall Linux gaming performance both for native titles as well as those on Steam Play with Proton+DXVK/VKD3D. With Mesa 20.1 releasing in the coming weeks, here are some recent benchmarks showing the RADV+ACO performance on Mesa 20.1-devel compared to RADV using its default AMDGPU LLVM back-end.

2020 Linux-based Set Top Box Global Market Analysis By Sagemcom, Skyworth, Huawei, Coship, Changhong, Tvip  Surfacing Magazine

For a number of months now Google engineers have been working on FSCRYPT inline encryption capabilities for EXT4 and F2FS. The work is designed to offer better encryption performance on modern SoCs by having the encryption/decryption happen within the block layer as part of the bio and in turn leveraging the inline encryption hardware on modern Arm SoCs. The work still isn't merged but looks like it could be getting closer...

FSCRYPT Inline Encryption Still Being Prepared For The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

FSCRYPT Inline Encryption Still Being Prepared For The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

The Freescale "FEC" Ethernet driver used by select i.MX SoCs will be seeing better performance on the next kernel release...

Freescale Ethernet Driver Unlocks A Big Performance Improvement  Phoronix

Microstutter only in Windows, fine in Linux. GPU, FB usage and Power drop to 1/2 - Windows 10 Support  BleepingComputer

Linux-based Set Top Box Market 2020 Industry Size, Share, Growth, Segments, Regional Demand, Application and Forecast Research 2025  Latest Herald

Windows 10 market share drops as macOS, Linux record growth  WindowsLatest

IT Support Brisbane  WhaTech

Reliable distributed computing systems and applications have become the cornerstone of prominent businesses, especially in automating and managing mission-critical business processes and delivering services to customers. As developers and system administrators of these systems...

Linux Software Market is becoming a key trend by Players: Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, IBM, Oracle  Newark Now

In Learning to love systemd, the first article in this series, I looked at systemd's functions and architecture and the controversy around its role as a replacement for the old SystemV init program and startup scripts. In this second article, I'll start exploring the files and tools that manage the Linux startup sequence. I'll explain the systemd startup sequence, how to change the default startup target (runlevel in SystemV terms), and how to manually switch to a different target without going through a reboot.

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Humans transfer information in many different ways. On the internet, the primary format is text, which is how you're reading this article. However, there is other data on the internet, such as images and sound files and so on. It might seem easy to post an image online or attach a document to an email, until you realize that HTTP/1.1 and SMTP are text-based protocols. Data transferred over such protocols must be represented as a subset of ASCII text (specifically, characters 33 to 126).

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