Open-source News

Google Now bans some Linux web browsers  Fudzilla

Package managers are an important part of working with modern Linux distributions. In the early days of Linux, life was more complicated. If you wanted to install a piece of software, you had to download a file (or files) and then configure the software to run on your particular system. This didn't make it very easy to install software.

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The ROX desktop is no longer being actively developed, but its legacy resounds today, and even when it was active, it was a unique take on what a Linux desktop could be. While other desktops felt roughly similar to old Unix or Windows interfaces, ROX belongs solidly in the BeOS, AmigaOS, and RISC OS desktop camps.

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Linux Foundation Puts a new DENT in Edge Networking  EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet

Contributors are the lifeblood of many open source projects because they enable smaller projects to grow and improve without a lot of financial support and they bring fresh perspectives to the project. That is the case at Ushahidi, a non-profit organization that is building and using software to help raise the voices of underserved, marginalized communities.

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Zorin OS 15.1 Linux Distro Released With GameMode & Other Features  Fossbytes

Oracle's had quite the file-system history and looking ahead to 2020 they appear committed to the XFS boat on the Linux front. Oracle retains control over the upstream ZFS file-system and could push for better Linux integration of that file-system plus they formerly employed Btrfs creator Chris Mason during its infancy. But they also employ lead XFS maintainer Darrick Wong and in keeping in-line with Red Hat Enterprise Linux defaults embrace that as their primary file-system for Oracle Linux...

Oracle Talks Up Recent Features For XFS + Some File-System Improvements On The Horizon  Phoronix

OpenWiFi Open-Source Linux-compatible WiFi Stack Runs on FPGA Hardware  CNX Software

ProteusDevice Secure, Open-Source Linux Handheld Features Ethernet Connectivity  CNX Software

Microsoft launches Teams for Linux preview  Technology Decisions

On schedule with one week since the closure of the Linux 5.5 kernel merge window and subsequent release candidate, Linux 5.5-rc2 is out this evening for testing...

Linux 5.5-rc2 Kernel Released  Phoronix

All the world's top 500 supercomputers run Linux  Technology Decisions

On Christmas it will mark three years since the release of FreeDOS 1.2 while it appears FreeDOS 1.3 is right around the corner and could potentially be released around that same time. FreeDOS continues going strong as a complete DOS-compatible open-source environment and with this next release can even function as a DOS Live CD...

Benchmarking 11 Linux Distributions Across Dozens Of Workloads On The Intel Core i9 10980XE  Phoronix

If opting for a high-end desktop/workstation like the Intel Core i9 10980XE and even for smaller systems, your choice of Linux distribution can be a big factor in the performance potential out of the system. In benchmarking eleven modern Linux distributions across dozens of benchmarks, the performance difference can be more than 30% for the out-of-the-box Linux performance. Benchmarked this round on the i9-10980XE were multiple versions of CentOS, Clear Linux, Debian, Fedora Workstation, Manjaro, openSUSE Tumbleweed, Solus, and Ubuntu.

Firefox 71 + WebRender vs. Chrome 79 Browser Benchmarks On Ubuntu Linux  Phoronix

On Friday I published two years worth of Mozilla Firefox benchmarks in re-testing every browser release from Firefox 57 through Firefox 71 stable as well as the latest beta/alpha releases. One of the questions that came out of that was seeing the current Chrome performance on Linux against Firefox, so here are some fresh numbers there...

The Raspberry Pi 4 continues seeing better mainline kernel/software support as we approach 2020...