Open-source News

Converting between uppercase and lowercase on the Linux command line  Network World

The cost of cloud hosting -- or in particular hosting their own GitLab instance and running continuous integration (CI) support for FreeDesktop.org projects -- is putting financial strain on the X.Org Foundation...

A few days back we reported on a security vulnerability within Intel's KVM virtualization code for the Linux kernel. That vulnerability stems from unfinished kernel code and was fixed for Linux 5.6 Git and is now being back-ported to the 4.4 / 4.9 / 4.14 / 5.5 supported kernels...

Linux 4.4.215 / 4.9.215 / 4.14.172 / 5.5.7 Kernels Bringing Intel KVM Security Fix  Phoronix

Installing a Linux desktop on your Chromebook [VIDEO]  Chrome Unboxed

The latest benchmarks for your viewing pleasure are looking at the dual Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 performance up against the dual AMD EPYC 7742 CPUs while using the in-development Linux 5.6 kernel as the first time trying out these highest-end server processors on this new kernel debuting as stable in about one month's time...

Linux 5.6 Tests On AMD EPYC 7742 vs. Intel Xeon 8280 2P With 100+ Benchmarks  Phoronix

OpenSMTPD Email Server Vulnerability Threatens Many Linux and BSD Systems  Cyber Security News

Linux-driven net appliance has six GbE and a pair of 10GbE ports  LinuxGizmos.com

Linux-driven net appliance has six GbE and a pair of 10GbE ports  LinuxGizmos.com

The SPICE remote display system developed by Red Hat is up to version 0.14.3 with a few prominent additions...

Mesa's Panfrost Gallium3D driver for providing open-source support for Arm Mali Midgard and Bifrost GPUs now has experimental OpenGL ES 3.0 support...

While test builds have been available for months, out today is Android-x86 9.0-r1 as the first stable release of the Android 9.0 "Pie" series brought to Intel/AMD x86/x86_64 hardware...

AMD Linux kernel graphics driver maintainer Alex Deucher has submitted the company's first batch of graphics driver updates to DRM-Next that in turn is for inclusion with the upcoming Linux 5.7 cycle...

Initial Batch Of Radeon Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 5.7  Phoronix

Stemming from incorrect rendering with VA-API and UYVY422 content with AMD Radeon graphics on Linux, a number of fixes were merged today for improving the Gallium3D video code...

Cosmo Communicator Linux Android smartphone passes $1.8 million in funding  Geeky Gadgets

Raspberry Pi 4 Linux computer gets twice the RAM and USB-C power fix  BetaNews

Fedora Project Leader Matthew Miller recently talked about his vision for the Fedora Project over the next decade and it to become an "operating system factory", among other advancements he hopes to see out of the project in the 2020s. A one-sentence vision for Fedora is now drafted as their vision statement...

The Subversion version control system is celebrating its 20th anniversary...