Open-source News

Occult College Drama Knife Sisters is released for Linux today  Gamasutra

System76 releases two new Comet-Lake-powered laptops with Linux Coreboot firmware  Notebookcheck.net

Back during the summer Eric Anholt who had been the lead developer of Broadcom's VC4/V3D graphics driver stack most notably used by Raspberry Pi boards left the company to join Google. In his place, the Raspberry Pi Foundation is working with consulting firm Igalia to continue work on the DRM/KMS kernel driver and Gallium3D drivers for this open-source graphics driver support...

Paul Thurrott's Short Takes: October 11  Petri.com

Tails 4.0 Anonymous OS Release Candidate Out Now with Tor Browser 9.0, Linux 5.3  Softpedia News

As written about a few days ago, Intel engineers added Gen12/Xe Tiger Lake support to their compute stack "NEO" for Linux users. That support has now made it into their latest weekly release of the Intel Compute Runtime...

Linux laptops: System76 reveals Intel 10th generation CPUs for its two new models  ZDNet

Canonical's developers continuing to advance the Mir display server that continues to be focused on providing an abstraction for Wayland support have issued a new feature release...

It's fairly rare these days seeing big patch sets out of AMD focused on improving the open-source Linux driver support for the likes of aging GPUs such as the Sea Islands and Volcanic Islands generations, but this Friday there is some notable development activity...

AMD Linux Driver Bringing BACO Support To Older Sea Islands / Volcanic Islands GPUs  Phoronix

Intel's open-source IWD wireless daemon that continues work on replacing WPA Supplicant is up to version 0.22...

Automotive Grade Linux announces Chinese automaker SAIC Motor as a new member  just-auto.com

Recently on Phoronix you have likely heard a lot about the LRU "bulk moves" functionality for the AMDGPU driver after it was talked up by a Valve Linux developer for the performance help to Linux games and then the change landing in Linux 5.4 as a "fix"...

What are Linux containers?  Engineer Live

System76 Introduces two Intel Comet Lake Linux Laptops with Coreboot Firmware  CNX Software

Grace Hopper is one of those iconic figures that really needs no introduction. During her long career in the United States Navy, she was a key figure in the early days of modern computing. If you have been involved in open source or technology in general, chances are you have already heard several anecdotes about Grace Hopper. The story of finding the first computer bug, perhaps? Or maybe you have heard some of her nicknames: Queen of Code, Amazing Grace, or Grandma COBOL?

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There's always a lot to get excited about in October: sweater weather, pumpkin spice, Halloween costumes, and for the last three years, Hacktoberfest.

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The "VIRTME" project was started years ago as a set of simple tools for running a virtualized Linux kernel that uses the host distribution or basic root file-system rather than a complete Linux distribution image. There hasn't been a new release of VIRTME in years but that changed on Thursday...

"VIRTME" Revised For Virtualized Linux Kernel Testing  Phoronix