Open-source News

Linux usage on Azure now surpasses Windows  Technology Decisions

A Microsoft developer has revealed that usage of Linux on the company's Azure Cloud now exceeds Windows.

Godot lead developer Juan Linietsky has been spending much of his time working on porting their open-source game engine to Vulkan for the Godot 4.0 release to follow Godot 3.2. Good progress is being made in getting this increasingly popular game engine rendering with Vulkan...

The 2019 X.Org Developers Conference for "all-things open-source graphics" is coming up at the start of October. But if you've been wanting to talk about something related to the Linux kernel, Mesa, Wayland, or related components, this week is your last chance to apply...

The Best VPNs For PC  Forbes

Which Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) protect PC users best?

The second preview release of the long-awaited Xfce 4.14 is now available for testing ahead of its official debut later this summer...

Keith Packard has joined RISC-V company SiFive. Yes, the same Keith Packard that is the longest still active (though somewhat more dormant these days) X Window System developer who for many years had led much of the X11/X.Org efforts and worked for nearly a decade at Intel on their open-source Linux graphics driver stack before working for HP Labs and also a side-gig for Valve improving the Linux stack for VR...

A Microsoft engineer says that the use of Linux has overtaken Windows on its own Microsoft Azure cloud  Business Insider

In recent years, Microsoft has warmed up to Linux, which it used to see as a rival. Now, there's more use of Linux than Windows on Microsoft Azure.

A Microsoft engineer says that the use of Linux has overtaken Windows on its own Microsoft Azure cloud  Business Insider

In recent years, Microsoft has warmed up to Linux, which it used to see as a rival. Now, there's more use of Linux than Windows on Microsoft Azure.

Certificate poisoning puts Tor network, Linux updates at risk  iTWire

An attack on a key server and the subsequent poisoning of the certificates of two OpenPGP contributors — Robert Hansen and Daniel Gillmor — has create...

KaOS Linux Gets July Release with KDE Plasma 5.16 Desktop, Linux Kernel 5.1  Softpedia News

The KaOS Linux operating system received July 2019's snapshot release with all the latest updates and security fixes published in the main repositories since ...

Microsoft Wants to Join Closed Linux List for Bug Reporting  WinBuzzer

Microsoft is a Linux distributor these days and wants to join a special closed list where bugs in the platform are reported privately.

Pay What You Want for This Linux eBook Bundle  XDA Developers

Linux may lag behind macOS and Windows in terms of popularity, but this open-source OS is capable of incredible things. If you want to lock down your digital ...

Pay What You Want for This Linux eBook Bundle  XDA Developers

Linux may lag behind macOS and Windows in terms of popularity, but this open-source OS is capable of incredible things. If you want to lock down your digital ...

Steam and Ubuntu: support until 2025 and 20.04 LTS  Ghacks Technology News

Ubuntu will continue to ship with 32-bit packages required to run legacy applications and games, including those on the Steam gaming platform.

Mageia 7 Linux OS Released with Linux 5.1 Kernel, KDE Plasma 5.15 and GNOME 3.32  Softpedia News

Also comes with various new features and improvements.

A few weeks ago we received a POWER9 Raptor Blackbird for testing that features an IBM POWER9 4-core (16 thread) processor clocked at 3.80GHz. For those curious about the performance potential for low-end POWER9 parts compared to the more common high-core/thread count POWER processors we have benchmarked before like in the Talos II server, here are some initial tests of that petite POWER9 processor.

Confirmed: Ubuntu MATE Is Coming To The Raspberry Pi 4  Forbes

The Raspberry Pi 4 is a serious leap over the last generation, and with an option 4GB of RAM it can finally deliver a solid desktop PC experience. But it needs a ...

The Command-Line Issue  Linux Journal

Summer. 1980-something. An elementary-school-attending, Knight Rider-T-Shirt-wearing version of myself slowly rolls out of bed and shuffles to the living room.

How to Install Linux on Your Chromebook  PCMag

If you want to install Ubuntu, or any other Linux distro, on your Chromebook, Crouton can help you d.

How to Install Linux on Your Chromebook  PCMag.com

If you want to install Ubuntu, or any other Linux distro, on your Chromebook, Crouton can help you d.