Open-source News

Newcomer EndeavourOS Offers a Friendlier Arch Linux Experience  LinuxInsider.com

Good-bye Antergos Linux. Welcome to the Arch neighborhood, EndeavourOS. Here's hoping that you are well received! That may seem like a strange way to ...

Linux Journal runs shutdown -h now for a second time: Mag editor fires parting shot at proprietary software  The Register

Linux Journal has closed with "no operating funds to continue in any capacity", according to a notice on its site. First published in March 1994, Linux Journal was ...

After a slight delay, The Document Foundation this morning announced the release of the LibreOffice 6.3 cross-platform open-source office suite...

By now you've likely seen the fantastic performance out of AMD's new "Rome" 7002 series processors. The performance is phenomenal and generally blowing well past Intel's Xeon Cascade Lake processors. So that's all good and it can get even better outside of performance: I asked AMD about the prospects of Coreboot / open-source BIOS support and got a surprising response...

Red Hat has joined the RISC-V Foundation to help foster this open-source processor ISA...

Yesterday marked the release of GTK-VNC 1.0 as GNOME's VNC viewer widget for the GTK tool-kit...

Coinciding with yesterday's glorious AMD EPYC "Rome" 7002 series CPU launch, AMD's software folks released AOCC 2.0 as their LLVM/Clang-based compiler optimized for Zen processors. AOCC 2.0 brings optimized compiler support now for Zen 2 processors not just only the EPYC 7002 line-up but also the Ryzen 3000 series consumer processors...

Star Labs Linux Laptop Review — A Premium Ultrabook for Open Source Admirers  Fossbytes

We've previously covered System76 and their Linux loving laptops. But there are several other brands around that put Linux first. Star Labs is one of them and ...

Version 1.14 of the libinput library for unified input handling on Linux X.Org and Wayland systems is now available...

Email remains a fact of life. Despite all its warts, it's still the best way to send information to most people, especially in automated ways that allow messages to queue for recipients.

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Markdown is a widely adopted plain-text formatting syntax used to specify HTML rendering. It is also an essential skill to learn if you want to contribute to open source software. 

Like many concepts in open source communities, there are multiple, domain-specific distributions of Markdown. CommonMark provides an unambiguous rendering specification for defined Markdown incantations while many communities offer extensions to the official specification.

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Nvidia gives a major boost to Nouveau open source driver for Linux  TechRadar

Nvidia has extended a helping hand to the developers working on Nouveau, the open source Linux driver for Nvidia graphics cards, in a move that comes rather ...

Nvidia gives a major boost to Nouveau open source driver for Linux  TechRadar

Nvidia has extended a helping hand to the developers working on Nouveau, the open source Linux driver for Nvidia graphics cards, in a move that comes rather ...

Because scrum and kanban both fall under the agile methodology umbrella, many people confuse them or think they're the same thing. There are differences, however. For one, scrum is more specific to software development teams, while kanban is used by many kinds of teams and focuses on providing a visual representation of an agile team's workflow. Some argue that kanban is about getting things done, and scrum is about talking about getting things done.

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MariaDB is an open-source and popular relational database management system (RDBMS) made by the original developers of MySQL. It is a fast, scalable and robust database system, with a rich ecosystem of storage engines,...

Linux Journal Ceases Publication: An Awkward Goodbye  Linux Journal

IMPORTANT NOTICE FROM LINUX JOURNAL, LLC: On August 7, 2019, Linux Journal shut its doors for good. All staff were laid off and the company is left with ...

Loadsharers: Funding the Load-Bearing Internet Person  Linux Journal

The internet has a sustainability problem. Many of its critical services depend on the dedication of unpaid volunteers, because they can't be monetized and thus ...

Oops! Debugging Kernel Panics  Linux Journal

A look into what causes kernel panics and some utilities to help gain more information. Working in a Linux environment, how often have you seen a kernel panic ...

AMD EPYC 7502 + EPYC 7742 Linux Performance Benchmarks Review  Phoronix

Now that you have read our AMD EPYC "Rome" 7002 series overview, here is a look at the initial performance benchmarks from our testing over the past few ...

AMD EPYC 7002 Series Unveiled With Primed Linux Support & Strong Server Performance Review  Phoronix

One month ago today we were talking about the AMD Ryzen 3000 series processor and new Radeon RX 5700 series graphics cards, all manufactured on ...