Open-source News

Last week saw a slew of new Git releases due to a security issue over the newline character creating a possible credential leak. This week is another round of emergency Git releases due to a similar security bug...

How to Manage Remote Mac & Linux AD-Bound Systems  Security Boulevard

Last week brought FreeBSD support merged into OpenZFS and it turns out there is another recently-merged exciting advancement for this cross-platform open-source ZFS file-system code in terms of a big speed boost...

OpenZFS Sees 3x Throughput Boost For ZVOL Sync Write Performance  Phoronix

Google announces critical Chrome flaw, urging immediate updates  IT PRO

With WireGuard added to the Linux 5.6 kernel and it being back-ported to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and its tools getting packaged up by more Linux distributions, it's finally the year of WireGuard. With its usage set to skyrocket as supported kernels and the WireGuard utilities become available out-of-the-box on more distributions, there is now a WireGuard benchmark for stressing the kernel and its support...

There Is Now A WireGuard Benchmark For Testing Linux Networking Performance  Phoronix

Firefly launches RK1808-based module and dev kit with 3-TOPS NPU  LinuxGizmos.com

Firefly launches RK1808-based module and dev kit with 3-TOPS NPU  LinuxGizmos.com

Alternative Free Software for Architecture and Design  ArchDaily

Hacker ports Linux-based postmarketOS to the iPhone 7 (sort of)  Liliputing

German Linux PC vendor TUXEDO Computers has launched the "TUXEDO Control Center" to provide a GUI-driven control panel for managing thermal and power settings on their systems...

TUXEDO Computers Launches A Power/Thermal Control Center For Their Linux Systems  Phoronix

Linux On iPhone: You Can Now Run PostmarketOS On iPhone 7  Fossbytes

Global  Linux Software Market Major Growth By 2020-2024 | TOP KEY VENDOR : Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, IBM, Oracle, Novell,…More – Cole Reports  Cole of Duty

MS Office Alternative Software for Linux MARKET DETAILED STRATEGIES, COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPING AND DEVELOPMENTS FOR NEXT 5 YEARS – Cole Reports  Cole of Duty

Earlier this month I looked at the X.Org vs. Wayland browser performance with Firefox and Chrome. Mozilla Firefox in particular was showing better performance on Wayland, so here are fresh tests of Firefox with using Fedora 32 and testing various X.Org/Wayland desktops.

Firefox Performance On Wayland Is Looking Good - Browser Benchmarks With KDE vs. GNOME  Phoronix

With the release of LibreOffice 7.0 in a few months, the open-source office suite will now prefer building at least portions of its code-base with the LLVM Clang compiler over GCC or Microsoft MSVC even if the default compiler is not Clang...

Intel's open-source SVT-AV1 encoder/decoder for AV1 content continues becoming quite featureful while being extremely performant. Out today is SVT-AV1 0.8.2 with more significant work not only on the encoder side but also decoder...