Open-source News

Another weekend rolls around, and I can spend some time working on my passion projects, including working with single-board computers, playing with emulators, and general tinkering with a soldering iron. Earlier this year, I wrote about resurrecting the Commodore Amiga on the Raspberry Pi. A colleague referred to our shared obsession with old technology as a "passion for preserving our digital culture."

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Open source is a good thing. Open source is a particularly good thing for security. I've written about this before (notably in Disbelieving the many eyes hypothesis and The commonwealth of open source), and I'm going to keep writing about it. In this article, however, I want to talk a little more about a feature of open source that is arguably both a possible disadvantage and a benefit: the difference between a project and a product.

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Linux, Dell and IOTA team up for Project Alvarium, IOT/USD price falls  FXStreet

Dell has been offering the Dell XPS 7390 in "Developer Edition" form with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS for this newest XPS generation using 10th Gen Comet Lake CPUs while now they have added more hardware configuration options...

Following last week's release of Chrome 78, Google today promoted Chrome 79 to their beta channel...

While we long to finally see GIMP 3.0, GIMP 2.10.14 is out as the newest stable update for this leading open-source image manipulation program...

Linux Mint 19.3 'Tricia' is coming — here's what we know  BetaNews

Chinese Hackers Steal SMS Messages from Linux Routing Servers  BleepingComputer

Linspire 8.5 Linux Operating System Released, Based on Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS  Softpedia News

With Mesa 19.3 having been branched yesterday, hitting Git master today as an early change for Mesa 20.0 is an overhaul to the Intel "ANV" open-source Vulkan driver's buffer object (BO) allocation code...

Digilent embraces SYZYGY expansion with new Linux-on-Zynq SBCs  LinuxGizmos.com

Tbe Khronos Group has launched the Vulkan Unified Samples Repository, a Git repository on GitHub for Khronos-reviewed, high-quality Vulkan code samples...

How to locate and close an open port in Linux  TechRepublic

Geany is a programmer friendly open source text editor for Windows, Linux, macOS  Ghacks Technology News

Astonishing Growth of Linux Operating System Market Current and Future Trends and In Depth Analysis by 2026 with Leading Key Vendors IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, openSUSE, Fedora Linux  Market Expert

Linux Mint 19.3 Codename Revealed as "Tricia," Will Arrive Just Before Christmas  Softpedia News

1. Linux's Marketing Problem  Hackaday
2. Linux Mint 19.3 Codename Revealed as "Tricia," Will Arrive Just Before Christmas  Softpedia News
3. Astonishing Growth of Linux Operating System Market Current and Future Trends and In Depth Analysis by 2026 with Leading Key Vendors IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, openSUSE, Fedora Linux  Market Expert
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Meet the Startup That Wants to Connect Linux to the Blockchain  newsBTC

Linux Operating System Market 2019, Trend, CAGR Status, Growth, Analysis and Forecast to 2024  Med News Ledger