Open-source News

Fedora drops 32-bit Linux  ZDNet

AMD provided an update on their Linux FreeSync/Adaptive-Sync support at this week's X.Org Developers Conference event in Montreal. There's good news both for HDMI and Wayland Linux users with Radeon graphics...

It Looks Like HDMI FreeSync/VRR For Linux + Wayland Support Will Eventually Come For AMD  Phoronix

SolydXK Delivers Rock Solid Linux Performance  LinuxInsider.com

Linux Operating System Market Analysis and Revenue Forecast from 2019-2025 | IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint  All Times Tech

Complementing the 18-way NVIDIA GPU compute comparison from earlier this week with now having our hands on the RTX 2060/2070/2080 SUPER graphics cards, this round of NVIDIA Linux testing is looking at the Blender 2.80 and LuxCoreRender 2.1/2.2 performance for these popular rendering programs that offer CUDA acceleration.

Total War: WARHAMMER II - The Hunter & the Beast DLC Released for Linux and Mac  Softpedia News

Try out this new Linux exFAT kernel module for improved performance  TechRepublic

In addition to Intel announcing their work on the new "IBC" compiler back-end for their OpenGL/Vulkan drivers, the developers working on the Radeon "ACO" in cooperation with Valve were presenting the latest work on their compiler back-end at this week's XDC 2019 event in Canada...

Windows Is No Longer 'The Most Important Layer' at Microsoft  ExtremeTech

Windows Is No Longer 'The Most Important Layer' at Microsoft  ExtremeTech

The Logitech G15 keyboards and related gaming keyboards from the company are seeing a new open-source driver queued ahead of the Linux 5.5 kernel cycle...

Logitech Gaming Keyboards Getting A New Driver With Linux 5.5  Phoronix

Global Linux Operating System Market (2019-2024) Research Covers Top Players as IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, openSUSE  News Adopt

Following the Spectre mitigations coming to light last year, the late microcode update process for CPUs was serialized. However, this has led to complaints from cloud vendors and other customers with large core count servers where downtime/disruptions need to be minimal. So now the CPU microcode update process is being parallelized again...

Linux Returns To Parallel CPU Microcode Updates To Reduce Cloud Disruption  Phoronix

Systemd has begun harvesting the automatic suspend rules from ChromeOS for determining which USB devices support automatic suspend well out-of-the-box on Linux...

Java is a secure, stable, and well known, general-purpose programming language and computing technology platform with many interconnected capabilities. To run Java-based applications, you must have Java installed on your server. You mostly need...

GNOME, Java, Jupyter, Python. If your friends or family members have ever eavesdropped on your work conversations, they might think you've made a career in Renaissance folklore, coffee roasting, astronomy, or zoology. Where did the names of these open source technologies come from? We asked our writer community for input and rounded up some of our favorite tech name origin stories.

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Imagine not having access to a software's source code but still being able to understand how the software is implemented, find vulnerabilities in it, and—better yet—fix the bugs. All of this in binary form. It sounds like having superpowers, doesn't it?

You, too, can possess such superpowers, and the GNU binary utilities (binutils) are a good starting point. The GNU binutils are a collection of binary tools that are installed by default on all Linux distributions.

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