Open-source News

You Can't Stream 'Star Trek: Picard' on Linux Without This Workaround  Lifehacker

Linux 5.5 Performance Overall Is Comparable To Older Kernels For Most Workloads  Phoronix

Since the stable release of Linux 5.5 this weekend I have been carrying out benchmarks for looking at how the performance of this newly-minted kernel compares to older releases. Here are benchmark results of Linux 5.3 vs. 5.4 vs. 5.5 with an AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X but the results are similar to other HEDT and lower-end systems we've tested thus far...

Microsoft Releases Surface Duo SDK On macOS And Linux  Techworm

OpenMandriva Lx 4.1 RC KDE-focused Linux distro now available for download  BetaNews

How to use Linux on your Mac using a virtual machine  iMore

A new system call added to the very feature rich Linux 5.6 kernel is openat2() for more extensible behavior compared to the existing openat() functionality...

Linux 5.6 Kernel Adds New System Call For "openat2" - More Extensible openat()  Phoronix

Rocket League losing Linux and macOS support  The Tech Report

The Wine project's VKD3D initiative for translating Direct3D 12 support to Vulkan took another step forward today with patches for handling DXIL (Shader Model 6.0+) shaders with VKD3D, but the work in the current form may need to be re-worked...

With Mesa 20.0 scheduled for branching today (though that could be delayed a few days potentially depending upon last minute requests), there's been a flurry of Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver activity to squeeze into this first Mesa release series of 2020...

Indie VPN WireGuard gets the Torvalds seal of approval with inclusion in Linux kernel 5.6  The Register

Red Hat's Matthias Clasen has provided an update on one of the latest areas the GTK developers are working on finishing up with the forthcoming GTK 4.0 tool-kit... Improving the data transfer interfaces around handling for copy/paste and drag-and-drop...

Read This Before Upgrading From Windows 7 To Ubuntu Linux  Forbes

CBS All Access serves ads, but not content, to Linux users  Ars Technica

LibreOffice 6.4 is out today as the latest feature update to this cross-platform, open-source office suite...

While developers are hard at work on Godot 4.0 with Vulkan support, that release won't be ready until mid-2020 so as a result Godot 3.2 is out today as their latest stable release and serving as a "long-term support" release until transitioning to Godot 4...

How to Approach Linux Threats?  Enterprise Security Mag

Espanso is an open source text expander for Windows, Mac and Linux  Ghacks Technology News

Psyonix explains why Rocket League on macOS and Linux is scrapped and offers refunds  KitGuru