Open-source News

Nearly three years to the day since the release of CUPS 2.2, the release of CUPS 2.3 that had been delayed more than one year is now available...

The Fairphone 3 made its formal announcement this week with pre-orders beginning and plans to begin shipping in mid-October. The Fairphone 3 is the latest iteration for this phone design that is focused on social values / ethical manufacturing, the longevity of the phone, and modular replacement parts...

1. Microsoft Wants eXFAT in the Linux Kernel, the File System Specs Are Opened  X Herald
2. Microsoft Will Publish exFAT Spec, but Linux Devs Aren't Happy  ExtremeTech
3. Paragon Software now supports new Linux Kernel 5.2  KMWorld Magazine
4. Microsoft to Support exFAT File System in Linux, Releases exFAT Specification  CNX Software
5. Global Linux Operating System Market Analysis by SWOT, Investment, Future Growth and Major Key Players 2019 to 2024  Market Research Time
6. View full coverage on Google News

Microsoft Wants eXFAT in the Linux Kernel, the File System Specs Are Opened  X Herald

Microsoft reported today that it underpins the incorporation of its exFAT (Extended File Allocation Table) record framework for USB blaze drives and SD cards in ...

Microsoft to Support exFAT File System in Linux, Releases exFAT Specification  CNX Software

Microsoft has announced plans to support exFAT in Linux, and already releases exFAT specification, and submitted patchsets to the Linux kernel.

Linux runs almost everything these days, but many people are not aware of that. Some might be aware of Linux and might have heard that this operating system runs supercomputers. According to Top500, Linux now powers the five-hundred fastest computers in the world. Go to their site and search for "Linux" to see the results for yourself.

read more

If you spend most of your day staring into a terminal, it's only natural that you want it to look pleasing. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and terminals have come a long way since the days of CRT serial consoles. So, the chances are good that your software terminal window has plenty of options to theme what you see—however you define beauty.

read more

I work remotely and have done so on and off for a good percentage of the past 10 to 15 years. I'm lucky that I'm in a role where this suits my responsibilities, and in a company that is set up for it. Not all roles—those with many customer onsite meetings or those with a major service component—are suited to remote working, of course. But it's clear that an increasing number of organisations are considering having at least some of their workers doing so remotely.

read more

AMD developers have sent out their latest open-source Linux patches doing their kernel driver share for enabling High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) support for version 1.4 and newer...

A Linux systems provide a variety of system services (such as process management, login, syslog, cron, etc.) and network services (such as remote login, e-mail, printers, web hosting, data storage, file transfer, domain name...

Endless Grants $5,00000 Fund To GNOME Foundation's Coding Education Challenge  It's FOSS

The GNOME foundation recently announced the "Coding Education Challenge", which is a three-stage competition to offer educators and students the ...

While we've known Arm would be adding BFloat16 (BF16) support to their future processor designs, on Thursday they publicly provided more details on their plans for this new floating-point format to help AI / machine learning workloads with training and inference...

With the launch of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8, the intelligent operating system for the hybrid cloud, at Red Hat Summit 2019, we brought the next-generation of enterprise Linux to our extensive partner ecosystem. Beyond traditional hardware and software providers, this partner network encompasses Red Hat Certified Cloud and Service Providers (CCSPs) which includes the majority of major public cloud infrastructure providers.

Intel has previously indicated they plan for their new "Iris" Gallium3D driver to become their default OpenGL driver for Linux by EOY 2019 as far as Broadwell graphics and newer are concerned. Working in that direction and acknowledging their "Gen 12" Tiger Lake graphics will only be supported under Gallium3D OpenGL, they have begun establishing the driver mappings to handle the change-over...

Microsoft wants exFAT in the Linux kernel – OSnews  OS News

Microsoft ♥ Linux – we say that a lot, and we mean it! Today we're pleased to announce that Microsoft is supporting the addition of Microsoft's exFAT technology ...

ExFAT is on its way to the Linux kernel  ZDNet

There are many technical problems to be solved before this popular, formerly proprietary file system can be in the shipping open-source Linux code.

While it feels like DXVK 1.3.2 was just released, it's approaching one month old already and has been succeeded today by DXVK 1.3.3...

NVIDIA has promoted their 435.17 Linux driver as their newest short-lived driver release while also issuing a new Vulkan beta driver...

Drauger OS Makes a Capable Linux Game Console Platform  LinuxInsider.com

Drauger OS is a relatively new Linux distro for users with a penchant for games. Several design elements make this Linux gaming platform different from typical ...

Microsoft exFAT by Paragon Software Supports Linux Kernel 5.2  HEXUS

Proprietary cross-platform file system drivers and utilities deliver unrestricted access to your data! Freiburg, Germany – August 29, 2019 – Paragon Software, ...