Open-source News

This past week was GNOME's annual developer conference, GUADEC. Video recordings from all the presentations at this event in Thessaloniki, Greece are now online...

Audacious is an open source music player for Windows and Linux that supports Winamp skins  Ghacks Technology News

Once upon a time, the world of Windows music players was ruled by Winamp. It was resurrected a few months ago and works quite well even though it has not ...

There are many excellent resources available to teach you how to run an open source project—how to set up the collaboration tools, how to get the community engaged, etc. But there is much less out there about open source strategy; that is, about how to use well-considered open source investments to support an overall mission.

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In this edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look two open source releases from Google, Twitter's latest observability tooling, anime studio adopts Blender, and more!

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In the Unix/Linux directory structure, the /etc directory is where host-specific system-wide configuration files and directories are located; it is a central location for all system-wide configuration files. A configuration file is a local...

In addition to the initial exFAT driver landing for Linux 5.4, also slated to land for this next kernel cycle is the VirtIO-FS file-system driver...

Microsoft Clears exFAT for Inclusion in the Linux Kernel  Redmondmag.com

Microsoft has agreed to the addition of its Extended File Allocation Table (exFAT) technology to the Linux kernel, according to a Wednesday announcement.

Wine 4.15 is out for testing this US holiday weekend. With Wine 4.15 it brings an initial implementation of Windows' HTTP.sys as the HTTP protocol stack that is a kernel-mode driver that lists for HTTP requests and passes it onto Microsoft's IIS...

New version of Windows 95 gains a snazzy user interface on Windows 10, macOS and Linux  BetaNews

Windows 95 has been enjoying a nostalgia-fueled revival in recent years. There have been concepts made for modern versions of the ancient OS on desktop ...

Back on the AMD EPYC 7002 "Rome" launch day I wrote about how AMD is working to return to open-source BIOS / Coreboot support and now there's further confirmation of their work in that direction...

How to safely delete a user account on Linux  TechRepublic

Deleting users on a Linux server should be handled with this best practice.

The Linux 5.4 kernel merge window will kick off in September and with this next kernel cycle the initial open-source exFAT file-system driver is set to be mainlined for supporting this Microsoft file-system, but it will premiere within the kernel's "staging" area for code of lesser, yet-to-be-proven quality...

The ACRN hypervisor that was open-sourced by Intel last year as a small footprint virtualization hypervisor focused on real-time computing and safety-critical applications for IoT and related embedded use-cases is up to version 1.2...

Paragon Software now supports new Linux Kernel 5.2  KMWorld Magazine

Paragon Software, a file systems and storage management expert, is releasing the updated Microsoft exFAT by Paragon Software driver with rapid and ...

Clear Linux Offering Performance Advantages Even With Low-Power IoT/Edge Hardware  Phoronix

While we are often testing Intel's Clear Linux on high-end desktop and server hardware, it turns out even on the opposite end of the spectrum that their ...

While we are often testing Intel's Clear Linux on high-end desktop and server hardware, it turns out even on the opposite end of the spectrum that their performance-optimized distribution can offer meaningful performance advantages on low-end SoCs for IoT-type devices. When testing Clear Linux with an Apollolake platform, it came out to being about 20% faster than the likes of Fedora and Ubuntu Linux.

The Mac and Linux versions of Abandon Ship have been released!  Gamasutra

Ahoy Captains!Welcome to all our new players on those platforms :)As we are a very small Indie team, we don#39;t have access to a large selection of.

Nvidia Releases New Linux Graphics Driver with Many Improvements and Bug Fixes  Softpedia News

Nvidia 435.21 graphics driver now available to download.

ExTiX 19.8 "The Ultimate Linux System" Ditches Ubuntu & Debian for Deepin Linux  Softpedia News

GNU/Linux developer Arne Exton released a new version of his ExTiX "The Ultimate Linux System" operating system with a *fresh* new base and updated ...

Microsoft Will Publish exFAT Spec, but Linux Devs Aren't Happy  ExtremeTech

Microsoft has announced that it will publish the technical implementation details of the exFAT standard and allow support to be integrated into the Linux kernel at ...