Open-source News

While not Linux specific news, for those interested in graphics APIs or cross-platform aspects of gaming, Microsoft today announced DirectX 12 Ultimate...

Pet the cat, own the bathrobe: Linus Torvalds on working from home  ZDNet

How to listen to port traffic on a Linux server  TechRepublic

Linux Software Market by Top Manufacturers – Twitter, Novell, IBM, Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, RedHat, Oracle, Google, Samsung, DELL  Galus Australis

Google develops Linux tool that tackles USB keystroke injection attacks  The Daily Swig

AIoT Has a Nice Ring To It  WIND

Chrome OS to shrink Linux disk image for Chromebooks with limited storage  Chrome Unboxed

Paragon Software and Sagemcom Partner to Offer Solutions for Linux Systems  Database Trends and Applications

LLVM 10.0 along with the likes of Clang 10.0 were supposed to be out nearly one month ago but instead a fifth release candidate arrived today...

As part of my role as a senior product marketing manager at an enterprise software company with an open source development model, I publish a regular update about open source community, market, and industry trends for product marketers, managers, and other influencers. Here are five of my and their favorite articles from that update.

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Linux 5.7 will support the MHI protocol developed by Qualcomm as part of the new kernel bus being introduced...

MHI: Linux 5.7 Getting A New Bus From Qualcomm  Phoronix

Purism Librem Mini is a privacy-focused Linux mini PC  SlashGear

Linux Developers Discuss Flushing L1 Cache On Context Switches In Light Of Vulnerabilities  Phoronix

Linux Developers Discuss Flushing L1 Cache On Context Switches In Light Of Vulnerabilities  Phoronix

In light of data sampling vulnerabilities like MDS, engineers from Amazon, Google, and other organizations are discussing a proof-of-concept implementation that would optionally flush the L1 data cache on context switches...

The Windows Subsystem for Linux conference was a (virtual) success  Ars Technica

Back in February came patches for AMD SEV-ES "Encrypted State" support as building off the Linux kernel's existing support for Secure Encrypted Virtualization in conjunction with AMD EPYC processors. The SEV-ES enablement work has now been revised...

AMD SEV-ES Guest Support Updated With More Improvements, Rebased  Phoronix

For the past year Mesa has offered a "soft" implementation of FP64 capabilities for GPUs lacking FP64 hardware capabilities in order to support ARB_gpu_shader_fp64 as required by OpenGL 4.0. Optimizations were merged today to significantly enhance the "soft FP64" capabilities of Mesa...