Open-source News

Linux Gamers Banned in Battlefield V if Using Wine and DXVK  BleepingComputer

EA bans players running Battlefield V on Linux  OS News

Google preps low-cost Coral Dev Board Mini and new Edge TPU LGA module  LinuxGizmos.com

While complicated by New Year's festivities, Wine 5.0-RC4 was released today with just fifteen bug fixes for the week -- also a sign of the development cycle winding down for this annual Wine stable release...

Chromebooks silently testing microphone support for Linux on Chrome OS 79  Android Police

For months there has been many different discussions over the Linux desktop's poor performance when under memory pressure / out-of-memory type situations. That has resulted in some upstream work so far like GNOME GLib's GMemoryMonitor as well as discussions by distribution vendors about what solutions they could enable today to help the low memory situations. Fedora 32 could begin shipping and using EarlyOOM by default to help in this area...

Fedora 32 Looking At Using EarlyOOM By Default To Better Deal With Low Memory Situations  Phoronix

Fedora 32 Looking At Using EarlyOOM By Default To Better Deal With Low Memory Situations  Phoronix

Ringing in the new year with 136 open-spec Linux SBCs under $200  LinuxGizmos.com

Ringing in the new year with 136 open-spec Linux SBCs under $200  LinuxGizmos.com

Google Stadia Port Troubles Blamed on the Linux Kernel Scheduler  Tom's Hardware

Hitting Mesa 20.0-devel a short time ago were a set of patches to the Radeon Gallium3D video code for fixing 10-bit HEVC video decode support...

Your choice of Linux distribution on a budget PC can mean the difference of ~14% performance overall. Here are benchmarks of Ubuntu, CentOS, Debian, EndeavourOS, Manjaro Linux, openSUSE Tumbleweed, Fedora Workstation, and Clear Linux on a $50 processor as we roll into 2020 with the newest Linux distribution releases.

Microphone support finally comes to Linux on Chromebooks  Chrome Unboxed

Embedded Linux consulting firm Bootlin has been working on improving the security of OpenWrt, the Linux distribution popular for running on routers / networking equipment and other embedded Linux networking use-cases...

Bootlin Working To Boost OpenWrt Security With SELinux + DM-Verity  Phoronix

For those of you running EXT4 with Direct I/O on the likes of Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory or PMEM simulated via a virtual machine, better write performance is coming when overwriting already allocated blocks...

EXT4 In Linux 5.6 To See Big Write Performance Boost For Direct I/O  Phoronix

How to disable automatic opening of USB drive in Linux Mint  H2S Media

While we have found recent Linux kernels paired with latest motherboard BIOS releases to work out generally well for recent AMD APUs, not everyone has been having a trouble-free experience on recent kernels. But an affected user has discovered a possible workaround if hitting stability issues...