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Linux 5.10 Xen Brings Security Updates - Includes Fixing ARM Guests With KPTI

Phoronix - Tue, 10/20/2020 - 22:00
The Xen virtualization work for the Linux 5.10 kernel revolves around security...

AMDVLK 2020.Q4.1 Released With Various Game Fixes

Phoronix - Tue, 10/20/2020 - 18:21
AMD has issued their first open-source Vulkan driver code drop of the quarter with AMDVLK 2020.Q4.1...

XFS Lands More Code For Linux 5.10 - "Even More Monumental"

Phoronix - Tue, 10/20/2020 - 17:52
Last week saw the XFS file-system with Linux 5.10 support timestamps until the year 2486 rather than year 2038 and other improvements too. This week a second round of XFS work has landed for Linux 5.10...

Qt 6.0 Beta Released For This Big Toolkit Update

Phoronix - Tue, 10/20/2020 - 17:34
It was just two weeks ago that the Qt 6.0 Alpha released, but in aiming to get the release back on schedule, the beta is already shipping today...

FreeType 2.10.4 Rushed Out As Emergency Security Release

Phoronix - Tue, 10/20/2020 - 17:18
The FreeType text rendering library is out with version 2.10.4 today as an important security update...

GoAccess (A Real-Time Apache and Nginx) Web Server Log Analyzer

Tecmint - Tue, 10/20/2020 - 16:55

GoAccess is an interactive and real-time web server log analyzer program that quickly analyze and view web server logs. It comes as an open-source and runs as a command line in Unix/Linux operating systems.

The post GoAccess (A Real-Time Apache and Nginx) Web Server Log Analyzer first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

How should open source projects handle copyright notices?

opensource.com - Tue, 10/20/2020 - 15:01

Copyright notices in source code are inconsistently applied and poorly maintained. As a result, such notices are poor sources of information. Should more resources be applied to the maintenance of copyright notices? No.

Copyright notices are one-line strings that typically include the word "Copyright" (or some substitute, like ©), a name (usually a person or company), and a year.


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