Open-source News

Chrome 83 redesigns security/privacy settings, extensions UI, adds built-in ‘Safety Check,’ more  9to5Google

How to encrypt compressed files the easy way from Windows, macOS, or Linux  TechRepublic

Microsoft's virtual Build conference kicked off this morning and this year brings another big improvement on the Windows Subsystem for Linux front.....

The cheapest laptop in the world is powered by a 28-year-old operating system  TechRadar

OpenBSD 6.7 was released this morning as the newest version of this security-minded BSD operating system...

Microsoft is bringing Linux GUI apps to Windows 10  The Verge

1. Microsoft is bringing Linux GUI apps to Windows 10  The Verge
2. Could it be? Really? The Year of Linux on the Desktop is almost here, and it's... Windows-shaped?  The Register
3. Windows 10 Is Getting Graphical Linux Apps With GPU Support  How-To Geek
4. Microsoft admits it was wrong about Linux and open source  TechRadar
5. How to use Windows Subsystem for Linux to open Linux on Windows 10 machines  Network World
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Linux modules on Windows 10 IoT Enterprise | Internet of Things Show  Microsoft - Channel 9

GCC 10 vs. Clang 10 Compiler Performance On AMD Zen 2 + Intel Cascade Lake  Phoronix

We delivered many benchmarks of Clang 10.0 on various CPUs following that updated LLVM compiler stack release earlier this year. With GCC 10 released earlier this month, we have begun our benchmarking of this annual feature release to the GNU Compiler Collection. First up is a look at the GCC 9 vs. GCC 10 vs. LLVM Clang 10 compiler performance on AMD Zen 2 and Intel Cascade Lake systems.

The SD 8.0 specification was announced today for SD Express memory cards to allow up to 4GB/s transfer rates by building off the PCIe 4.0 architecture...

SD 8.0 Specification To Allow 4GB/s Transfer Rates By Leveraging PCIe 4.0  Phoronix

Red Hat CEO, Paul Cormier, Talks About Covid-19, Success of Open Source, And IBM  Fossbytes

The all-important Linux Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) code for open-source virtualization had mistakenly been applying its L1TF workaround for unaffected CPUs -- namely AMD EPYC CPUs -- for the past several months until the issue was uncovered this week...

Linux KVM Virtualization Had Mistakenly Been Applying L1TF Workaround To Unaffected CPUs  Phoronix

Linux distro review: Fedora Workstation 32  Ars Technica

Clang 11.0 has changed its "-O" optimization flag to match the defaults of GCC...

HOW TO: Install VMware Tools for Linux on a VMware Linux virtual machine on a VMware vSphere Hypervisor 7.0 (ESXi 7.0) Host Server  Experts Exchange

Version 2.0 of the libaom AOMedia AV1 video encoder / video codec SDK library is now available as the first major update in nearly two years...

A new patch series has been revived from work originally published by Micron back in 2018 for dealing with the behavior on their planar 2D NAND devices where in rare cases when issuing block erase commands, the flash block might not actually be erased and this could lead to further problems down the road when touching said block...