Open-source News

Microsoft Teams Gets Private Channels, New Linux App, Outlook Integration  Thurrott.com

FreeBSD 12.1 has released on-time as the first incremental update to last year's FreeBSD 12...

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER Linux Gaming Performance Review  Phoronix

Last week NVIDIA announced the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER as their newest Turing "SUPER" graphics card coming in at $229+ USD and delivering around 1.5x faster performance than the GeForce GTX 1060. For those wondering about the Linux gaming performance potential for this graphics card, here are our initial tests of this new graphics card using the EVGA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER.

Dell bets large on Ubuntu Linux laptops for builders  Mash Viral

Dell bets big on Ubuntu Linux laptops for developers  ZDNet

Nvidia Releases New Linux Graphics Driver with GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER Support  Softpedia News

As part of my role as a senior product marketing manager at an enterprise software company with an open source development model, I publish a regular update about open source community, market, and industry trends for product marketers, managers, and other influencers. Here are five of my and their favorite articles from that update.

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NVIDIA has rolled out the 440.31 Linux driver today as their first stable update in this new driver branch...

Microsoft: Defender ATP is coming to Linux in 2020  ZDNet

You can now use Azure to manage resources anywhere, including on AWS and Google Cloud  TechCrunch

Raspbian PIXEL Fork for PC and Mac Is Now Based on Debian GNU/Linux 10 "Buster"  Softpedia News

Dell’s Newest XPS 13 Ubuntu Laptop Just Got 16 Additional Configurations  Forbes

For looking at any difference in thermal throttling and peak frequencies, I ran the Dell XPS with Intel Core i7-1065G7 "Ice Lake" processor out in a cold garage overnight compared to normal operating temperatures inside across dozens of benchmarks...

With the Linux 5.3 kernel release this summer Intel enabled Speed Select Technology under Linux for this feature found on new Cascade Lake processors. The SST Linux tool has now seen some updated patches ahead of the forthcoming Linux 5.5 cycle...

Intel Updates Speed Select Tool For Linux Ahead Of 5.5 Kernel Cycle  Phoronix

Landing in GNOME's Mutter tree today is a change for GNOME 3.36 improving the effectiveness of running the GNOME Shell desktop with a software renderer like LLVMpipe...

Vulkan 1.1.127 is out this morning as the latest routine update to the specification for this high-performance graphics API...

LazPaint is an open source raster graphics editor for Windows, macOS and Linux  Ghacks Technology News

Canonical Pledges to Fully Support Ubuntu Linux on All Raspberry Pi Boards  Softpedia News