Open-source News

Linux 5.8 Seeing The Preliminary Changes Ahead Of RISC-V EFI Support  Phoronix

With the somewhat surprising announcement this week that Intel's Clear Linux platform would be divesting from the desktop and focusing on server and cloud workloads, the first visible changes on the desktop side are expected next week...

Clear Linux Preparing To Move To GNOME 3.36, Dropping Their Desktop Customizations  Phoronix

How to capture different types of screenshots on Ubuntu Linux  H2S Media

With JEDEC's Universal Flash Storage (UFS) v3.1 specification from January one of the new features is the Host Performance Booster mode for faster and cheaper UFS capabilities. Micron and others have been working on this UFS Host Performance Booster support for Linux...

UFS Host Performance Booster Driver Coming Together For Faster Performance  Phoronix

Many AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Improvements Sent In For Linux 5.8  Phoronix

As I noted earlier this month, AMD has been amassing many graphics driver improvements for Linux 5.8. On Friday marked their first pull request to DRM-Next of the Radeon graphics driver improvements for this next kernel cycle...

Azure Insights: Service Bus encryption; Container Registry; Container image scans; Linux CentOS  MSDynamicsWorld.com

KDE Applications 20.04 Released For Linux Distros And Plasma Desktop  Fossbytes

Thanks to a FreeBSD Foundation Community Grant, FreeBSD 13 will be bringing up to a 5x performance improvement for if_bridge, the kernel code for network bridge device support...

FreeBSD's Network Bridge Code Scores A 500% Performance Improvement  Phoronix

Built off yesterday's exciting Wine 5.7 release that brought more WineD3D Vulkan bits and the start of a USB driver, Wine-Staging 5.7 is out with a number of its patches upstreamed into yesterday's release plus a bit of new functionality...

Wine-Staging 5.7 Fixes Support For Applications Built Using .NET CoreRT  Phoronix

Friday marked the release of LXQt 0.15, the first big update to this lightweight Qt5-based desktop environment since January 2019. There comes a fair number of improvements with this desktop that was born out of the LXDE and Razor-qt initiatives...

In addition to this week seeing the slew of KDE Apps updates, developers working on the applications, Plasma, and other areas of the KDE ecosystem have remained as busy as ever during the COVID-19 crisis for continuing to improve this open-source desktop...

Job of the Week: Mid-Career Software Engineer at Lockheed Martin  insideHPC

Windows PC Maker Lenovo to Launch Linux Laptops  Softpedia News

In this edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at the rebirth of Mapzen, two new projects to bolster PyTorch, new open source object detection software, and more!

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Lenovo ThinkPad Laptops Coming Soon With Pre-installed Fedora Linux  Fossbytes