Open-source News

EA Reportedly Bans Linux Players From Battlefield V for 'Cheating'  Tom's Hardware

Why and how to replace Windows 7 with Linux Mint  ZDNet

Torvalds calls it 'pure garbage' that Linux is to blame for Stadia port issues  Developer Tech

Torvalds calls it 'pure garbage' that Linux is to blame for Stadia port issues  Developer Tech

With Python 2 having reached end-of-life at the start of 2020, Ubuntu and Debian developers continue their work on removing Python 2 at least from the base OS. Work continues on transitioning packages to Python 3 or otherwise ultimately dropping unmaintained packages...

HPE Puts Cumulus Open Network OS onto M-Series Switches  Channelnomics

HPE Puts Cumulus Open Network OS onto M-Series Switches  Channelnomics

A new work-in-progress feature for systemd is "PathImages" though there is a suggestion this option be renamed to "MountPaths", but in any case is about allowing arbitrary images / block devices to be mounted at any path by systemd...

While there still is several weeks to go until the Linux 5.5 kernel reaches stable and that marking the start of the Linux 5.6 merge window, already from the work we've been tracking in the various "next" branches, this first full kernel cycle of 2020 is going to be a big one...

Linux in 2020: 27.8 million lines of code in the kernel, 1.3 million in systemd  The Register

Linux in 2020: 27.8 million lines of code in the kernel, 1.3 million in systemd  The Register

Shortly before Christmas were a couple open-source Nouveau driver patches volleyed by NVIDIA. Some of that work is now queuing in the Nouveau DRM tree ahead of the Linux 5.6 merge window...

NVIDIA Sent Out Some Fresh Nouveau Patches Just Before Christmas  Phoronix

The best free video editor 2020: free video editing software for all your projects  TechRadar India

Linux scheduler issue claims garbage  Fudzilla

CES 2020: New Dell Linux developer XPS 13 laptop is coming  Mash Viral

How to Enable Microphone and GPU Acceleration in Linux on Chromebook  Beebom

EA boots Linux gamers out of multiplayer Battlefield V, Penguinistas respond by demanding crippling boycott  The Register

Crikey, you lot have been busy writing in December. We've got more data munging from Greg Sutcliffe; we've got writing modules for orchestrating security; we've got networks, containers and thoughts from a sysadmin. No YouTubes this month—we thought you'd have enough reading here with the articles. Enjoy!

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