Open-source News

The LibreOffice open-source office suite's Qt5 tool-kit integration so far has lacked HiDPI scaling support for dealing with modern high pixel density displays. But adding to the excitement for the LibreOffice 7.0 release later this year is now the Qt5 HiDPI scaling capability...

Mozilla Launches Firefox 74 for Windows, Linux, and Mac  Softpedia News

PPP Daemon flaw opens Linux distros, networking devices to takeover attacks  Help Net Security

Should you be experienced in upstream Linux kernel development, AMD is hiring a lead Linux kernel developer...

AMD Is Hiring Another Lead Linux Kernel Developer To Work On Their Graphics Driver  Phoronix

Snapdragon based modules and dev kits range from smart audio to 5G  LinuxGizmos.com

Snapdragon based modules and dev kits range from smart audio to 5G  LinuxGizmos.com

Mesa 19.3.5 was released today for ending out the Mesa 19.3 series as the Q4'2019 OpenGL/Vulkan driver release stream...

Linux and open-source conferences: List of what's canceled or going virtual  ZDNet

'Rocket League' March update patch notes end support for Mac and Linux  Inverse

The rise of the Linux distribution-specific laptop  TechRepublic

'Rocket League' March update patch notes end support for Mac and Linux  Inverse

Mozilla engineers have been making good progress on being able to ship a Flatpak'ed Firefox web browser for better security/sandboxing and easier distribution on Linux systems...

Mozilla Making Progress With Offering Firefox As A Flatpak On Linux  Phoronix

Linux kiosk distro adds Raspberry Pi 4 support  LinuxGizmos.com

Linux kiosk distro adds Raspberry Pi 4 support  LinuxGizmos.com

Basemark GPU 1.2 Brings Linux Support - Wins For NVIDIA, Woes For Mesa  Phoronix

Last week Basemark launched their Basemark GPU 1.2 benchmark that now includes Linux support alongside all other major supported desktop and mobile operating systems. We've been testing out this Linux version with OpenGL and Vulkan support on both AMD Radeon and NVIDIA GeForce hardware.

Windows 10 isn’t the most vulnerable operating system – it’s actually Linux  TechRadar India

Compression experts Rich Geldreich and Stephanie Hurlburt with their Binomial consulting firm are about to release a high-quality open-source compression codec for GPUs...