Open-source News

Meet The New Linux Desktop That Offers A Unique Twist On Ubuntu 19.10  Forbes

Mozilla Firefox 71 Is Now Available for All Supported Ubuntu Linux Releases  Softpedia News

Mesa 19.3 could be released as soon as this week after being challenged by several delays over blocker bugs. This release should be making it out in the days ahead and is a fantastic Christmas gift to Linux desktop users and a big step-up for these OpenGL / Vulkan driver implementations as we end out 2019.

ManageEngine Delivers Industry’s First On-Premises Solution to Offer Endpoint MFA for all Major Operating Systems  Yahoo Finance

ManageEngine Delivers Industry's First On-Premises Solution to Offer Endpoint MFA for all Major Operating Systems  Business Wire

How to download and install WoeUSB on Ubuntu or a Debian Linux distro  H2S Media

Red Hat Extends the Security Profile of the World’s Leading Enterprise Linux Platform, Renews FIPS 140-2 Validation for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6  Yahoo Finance

Comparing Linux distributions: Red Hat vs. Ubuntu  TechTarget

Hex Five Announces General Availability of MultiZone™ Security for Linux – The First Commercial Enclave for RISC-V processors  GlobeNewswire

VPN hijack - compromise on Linux, Android and MacOS exposed  SC Magazine UK

An issue affecting some Linux users with Radeon graphics for at least the last four months around graphics corruption problems when switching to newer versions of the Linux kernel have been resolved...

Unisoc, the Chinese SoC provider for smartphones that is part of the Tsinghua Unigroup, has published a new open-source DRM display driver that ultimately they are looking to get into the mainline kernel...

Unisoc Looking To Introduce A New DRM Display Driver For Mainline Linux  Phoronix

Devs: Open Source Is Growing Despite Challenges  LinuxInsider.com

Windows Central Podcast 157: Almost Done (Still)  Windows Central

Hex Five Announces General Availability of MultiZone Security for Linux - The First Commercial Enclave for RISC-V processors  Design and Reuse

China to ditch all Windows PCs by 2022 – could this be Linux’s time to shine?  Techradar

China to ditch all Windows PCs by 2022 – could this be Linux’s time to shine?  TechRadar India

Managing the Linux kernel at AWS: 'A large team of security experts' dealing with fallout from Spectre, Meltdown flaws  The Register

While we are approaching 2020 and the four year anniversary since the Vulkan 1.0 launch, one aspect that has been a bit disappointing has been the lack of not seeing quicker uptake by various Linux window managers / compositors in at least offering a Vulkan code path. One of the best examples of a Vulkan-powered compositor with that has been the independent ChamferWM...