Open-source News

On the mailing lists and browsing various Git "-next" repositories it's felt like "damn, there are a lot of patches about replacing HTTP links with HTTPS all of a sudden" inside the kernel sources and documentation. Indeed, for Linux 5.9 where applicable HTTP links are being replaced for HTTPS...

Following Many Patches, Linux 5.9 Finally Switching To HTTPS Links En Masse  Phoronix

KDE Slimbook to release first AMD Ryzen 4000 laptop running Linux  Micky News

David Howells of Red Hat continues striving for great improvements to Linux storage...

Mount Notification Support Still Coming Together For The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

KDE Plasma 5.20 is bringing an important feature in further closing the gap between Wayland and X11 feature parity... Finally there will be working screen recording and screencasting on Wayland for compatible applications...

PineTab Linux Tablet Shipment Delays For A Week, But It's Totally Worth  Fossbytes

Linux can bring your old PC or Mac back to life -- for free  Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Linux can bring your old PC or Mac back to life -- for free  Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

In this week’s edition of our open source news roundup, Power BI releases a new React component, GitHub completes its Arctic Code Vault project, and more open source news.

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Sony Provides Patch To Linux 5.9 For Allowing Further Access Restrictions On DebugFS  Phoronix

A patch queued up into the driver core tree ahead of the upcoming Linux 5.9 kernel will allow further restricting access to DebugFS...

Linux, the modular car that can run, fly and navigate  Checkersaga

Announced earlier this year was the SD Express specification offering around 4x the speed of existing SD cards thanks to leveraging PCI Express 4.0 (or otherwise PCI Express 3.0 fallback) and the NVMe 1.4 protocol. The Linux kernel has begun preparing for SD Express compatibility...

The Linux Kernel Begins Preparing Support For SD Express Cards  Phoronix

Tuxedo Computers Pulse 15 Linux laptop is powered by AMD Ryzen 4000  BetaNews

Lilbits: PineTab Linux tablet coming in August, Jibo’s afterlife, and more  Liliputing

With basically at the cut-off for new feature material wanting to get into DRM-Next for Linux 5.9, Nouveau DRM maintainer Ben Skeggs of Red Hat today sent in the primary feature pull...

Nouveau Changes For Linux 5.9 Bring Fixes, Prep For Future Improvements  Phoronix

Nouveau Changes For Linux 5.9 Bring Fixes, Prep For Future Improvements  Phoronix