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Linux Operating System Market By Services,Assets Type,Solutions,End-Users,Applications,Regions Forecasts to 2023 - Spaceflight News

Google News - Sun, 07/14/2019 - 15:00
Linux Operating System Market By Services,Assets Type,Solutions,End-Users,Applications,Regions Forecasts to 2023  Spaceflight News

Linux Operating System Market By Services,Assets Type,Solutions,End-Users,Applications,Regions Forecasts to 2023 | The Premier Source of Space ...

Unreal Engine 4.23 Preview Brings Virtual Texturing, Other Enhancements

Phoronix - Sun, 07/14/2019 - 13:40
Epic Games released the first public preview this week of Unreal Engine 4.23...

Excellent! Ubuntu LTS Users Will Now Get the Latest Nvidia Driver Updates [No PPA Needed Anymore] - It's FOSS

Google News - Sun, 07/14/2019 - 12:19
Excellent! Ubuntu LTS Users Will Now Get the Latest Nvidia Driver Updates [No PPA Needed Anymore]  It's FOSS

To get the latest Nvidia drivers in Ubuntu LTS versions, you don't have to use PPA anymore. The latest drivers will now be available in the repositories of the ...

The Input Driver Updates For Linux 5.3 Bring New Hardware Support

Phoronix - Sun, 07/14/2019 - 12:04
The input and HID subsystem updates were sent in this week with various hardware support additions and improvements...

DXVK 1.3 Released With Discard Optimization, Async Presentation

Phoronix - Sun, 07/14/2019 - 07:23
Philip Rebohle released version 1.3 of DXVK today, the widely-used Direct3D 10/11 to Vulkan translation layer for accelerating Windows gaming on Linux under Wine and most known with Steam Play...

NVIDIA's Graphics Driver Will Run Into Problems With Linux 5.3 On IBM POWER

Phoronix - Sun, 07/14/2019 - 00:26
For those using the NVIDIA proprietary graphics driver on an IBM POWER system, it could be a while before seeing Linux 5.3+ kernel support. Upstream has removed code depended upon by the NVIDIA binary driver for supporting the POWER architecture and as is the case they don't care that it will break NVIDIA driver support since it's binary/out-of-tree...

In memoriam – Corby Corbató, MIT computer science pioneer, dies at 93 - Naked Security

Google News - Sun, 07/14/2019 - 00:09
In memoriam – Corby Corbató, MIT computer science pioneer, dies at 93  Naked Security

Almost everyone's heard of Linux – it's the operating system kernel that's behind a significant proportion of servers on the internet, including most of Google, ...

OpenHMD 0.3 Released With Support For More VR/AR Devices

Phoronix - Sat, 07/13/2019 - 22:00
Nearly three years after OpenHMD 0.2, the OpenHMD 0.3 release is now available for the open-source SDK and support for various AR/VR headsets...

Networking Changes For Linux 5.3 Bring New Google Driver But No WireGuard

Phoronix - Sat, 07/13/2019 - 21:13
The networking subsystem updates were sent out on Wednesday for the Linux 5.3 kernel and include a bunch of improvements to many different drivers...

KDE Frameworks 5.60 Released With Many Changes & Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 07/13/2019 - 20:41
Today marks the immediate availability of KDE Frameworks 5.60...

AMD Picasso Support For Coreboot Appears Finally Ready

Phoronix - Sat, 07/13/2019 - 20:09
Back in April I wrote about Coreboot seeing AMD Picasso APU enablement work as the first Zen/Ryzen processor target being handled by this open-source BIOS alternative. It now looks like that Picasso support is all squared away and ready for use by future AMD-powered Google Chromebooks...

Glibc's Slow Turnaround For Y2038 Fixes Is Frustrating

Phoronix - Sat, 07/13/2019 - 20:04
While there is another nineteen years to go until the Year 2038 problem manifests, the GNU C Library "glibc" is one of the key software components still needing some fixes for this issue where this problem where storing the Unix time as a 32-bit signed integer will wrap around and become a negative number...

Top 5 Linux Distros That Are Worth Your Attention - iGyaan Network

Google News - Sat, 07/13/2019 - 18:45
Top 5 Linux Distros That Are Worth Your Attention  iGyaan Network

Just like Windows and MacOS, a third operating system that has been in existence for a very long period is Linux. The operating system was originally ...

AMD Ryzen 3000 causes boot problems for some newer Linux distros - BetaNews

Google News - Sat, 07/13/2019 - 18:30
AMD Ryzen 3000 causes boot problems for some newer Linux distros  BetaNews

Just last week AMD launched its latest Ryzen 3000 series of CPUs. The third-generation Ryzen chips are the first to be based on 7nm technology, but there is a ...

Wayland's Weston 7.0 Compositor Aiming To Release Next Month

Phoronix - Sat, 07/13/2019 - 15:03
Simon Ser who has been serving as the Wayland/Weston release manager has laid out a schedule for getting out the next major release of Wayland's reference compositor...

XFS Gets Cleaned Up In Linux 5.3 Kernel Development Activity

Phoronix - Sat, 07/13/2019 - 12:00
While not too eventful on the end-user feature front, the XFS file-system has seen another round of clean-ups with the ongoing Linux 5.3 merge window...

AMD Ryzen 3000 systems need a BIOS fix for Linux, 'Destiny 2' issues - Engadget

Google News - Sat, 07/13/2019 - 09:42
AMD Ryzen 3000 systems need a BIOS fix for Linux, 'Destiny 2' issues  Engadget

Last week AMD officially released its new Ryzen 3000 Series CPUs and Radeon RX 5700 graphics cards, but there's a small problem with the CPUs. As some ...

London Launches Open Source App for Homebuilding | Linux.com | The source for Linux information - Linux.com

Google News - Sat, 07/13/2019 - 08:47
London Launches Open Source App for Homebuilding | Linux.com | The source for Linux information  Linux.com

Bryden Wood, Cast, and the Mayor of London have launched a new app to speed up the capital's home building. The freely-available app, titled PRISM, ...

Linux May Gain Protection Against Hyper-Threading Attacks - Linux.com

Google News - Sat, 07/13/2019 - 08:47
Linux May Gain Protection Against Hyper-Threading Attacks  Linux.com

Oracle security researchers have been working on security feature for Linux kernels that could protect Linux-based systems against attacks that affect Intel's ...

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