Open-source News

Kubuntu Focus: A new top-of-the-line Linux laptop arrives  ZDNet

ASUS TUF Laptops With Ryzen Are Now Patched To Stop Overheating On Linux  Phoronix

The AMD Ryzen Linux laptop experience continues improving albeit quite tardy on some elements of the support. In addition to the AMD Sensor Fusion Hub driver finally being released and current/voltage reporting for Zen CPUs on Linux, another step forward in Ryzen mobile support is a fix for ASUS TUF laptops with these processors...

How to install Linux on your Chromebook  Android Central

PinePhone's Linux and privacy-centric $150 smartphone begins shipping to early adopters  Android Police

After already several rounds of feature work queued in DRM-Next for Linux 5.6, AMD has submitted a final batch of feature work for this next kernel as it concerns their AMDGPU graphics driver...

AMD Sends In A Bunch Of Fixes For Linux 5.6 Along With Pollock Support  Phoronix

AMD Sends In A Bunch Of Fixes For Linux 5.6 Along With Pollock Support  Phoronix

Intel's open-source developers working on their security mitigation for the Gen7 graphics hardware have volleyed a new version of the patch series for that mitigation currently causing big hits to Ivybridge / Haswell performance...

The PinePhone begins shipping-- a Linux-powered smart device for $150  asume tech

Intel graphics patch "wrecks" Gen7 iGPU Linux performance - Graphics - News  HEXUS

Intel graphics patch "wrecks" Gen7 iGPU Linux performance - Graphics - News  HEXUS

How to Upgrade From Windows 7 to Linux  How-To Geek

The V3D Gallium3D driver that most notably offers the open-source graphics support for the Raspberry Pi 4 is now an official OpenGL ES 3.1 implementation...

Should I upgrade from Windows 7 to Linux?  Windows Report

Last year, I brought you 19 days of new (to you) productivity tools for 2019. This year, I'm taking a different approach: building an environment that will allow you to be more productive in the new year, using tools you may or may not already be using.

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OpenStack stores and manages a bunch of log files on its Overcloud nodes and Undercloud host. Therefore, it's not easy to use OSP log files to investigate a problem you're having, especially when you don't even know what could have caused the problem.

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How to Use the history Command on Linux  How-To Geek

Rust is an increasingly popular programming language positioned to be the best choice for hardware interfaces. It's often compared to C for its level of abstraction. This article explains how Rust can handle bitwise operations in a number of ways and offers a solution that provides both safety and ease of use.

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Following the recent Linux kernel tests of Liquorix and other scheduler discussions (and more), some requests from premium supporters rolled in for seeing the performance of Arch Linux's Zen kernel package against the generic kernel. Here are those benchmark results...