Open-source News

Linux Software Market: Global Macroeconomic Environment Analysis, Outlook, & Forecast 2019-2025  Denton Observer

“Linux Software Market” report provides detailed information on Linux Software markets. The Linux Software industry report covers data on global & Chinese ...

Stemming from recent discussions over Intel's Linux enablement for Intel's Lightning Mountain SoC that characterized it as a "AIRMONT_NP" for a "network processor" even though it's not limited to networking use-cases, and with Intel's proliferation of different CPU cores in general, the Linux kernel is seeing some cleaning up of their different Intel CPU names...

Bookworm is a new ebook reader for Linux  Goodereader

Calibre was originally developed to convert ebooks from one format to another and assist in delivering ebooks to your e-reader. The company has introduced ...

How to use Scrcpy to control Android phone from PC  H2S Media

What is Scrcpy? Scrcpy is an open-source tool that can display and control Android phones on a computer. It supports USB and Wi-Fi connection, as well as ...

Allwinner-based Pico-ITX SBCs launch on Kickstarter  LinuxGizmos.com

ActPower Taiwan has gone to Kickstarter to launch three “Project-X-A1” Pico-ITX boards starting at $44 that run Linux on Allwinner H2+, H3, and H5 SoCs and ...

Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS Makes It Easier to Patch the Linux Kernel without Rebooting  Softpedia News

Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS arrived earlier this month with updated kernel and graphics stacks, as well as all the latest package updates and enhanced Livepatch ...

How to rename a group of files on Linux  Network World

To rename a group of files with a single command, use the rename command. It requires the use of regular expressions and can tell you what changes will be ...

MX Linux 19 Beta 1 is here -- download the Debian-based operating system now  BetaNews

Another day, another Linux distribution. Yeah, it can get a bit tedious reading about so many operating systems based on the open source kernel, so here at ...

Linux Fu: It's A Trap!  Hackaday

It is easy to think that a Linux shell like Bash is just a way to enter commands at a terminal. But, in fact, it is also a powerful programming language as we've seen ...

Xfce 4.16 Desktop Environment Expected in Early 2020 with Minor Improvements  Softpedia News

Xfce 4.14 release already shipping for various Linux distros.

Neptune 6.0 Linux Distro Released, It's Based on Debian GNU/Linux 10 "Buster"  Softpedia News

The development team behind the Neptune Linux operating system have released a new major version that's based upon the latest Debian GNU/Linux release.

The Many Features and Improvements of the KDE Plasma 5.17 Desktop Environment  Softpedia News

Coming this fall to your favorite GNU/Linux distribution.

IBM Gives Away PowerPC; Goes Open Source  EE Journal

“With great power comes great responsibility.” – Uncle Ben. Remember PowerPC? Nah, me neither. But now it can be yours. For free. Srsly. IBM has released ...

With Debian 10 "Buster" out the door and Python 2 hitting end-of-life at the end of the year, Debian is working on their process of removing Python 2 packages that don't get ported to Python 3 and Ubuntu is working on similar action for their Python 2 packages not found in upstream Debian...

Joshua Ashton has released D9VK 0.20 "Frog Cookie" as the newest version of this project mapping Direct3D 9 over Vulkan to help improve the Windows gaming on Linux experience...

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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The VKMS virtual kernel mode-setting driver is seeing support for PRIME import added to it so this software solution can be used for helping to test multi-GPU PRIME configurations on Linux even without the hardware attached...

VKMS Getting PRIME Import Support For Helping To Test Linux's PRIME Functionality  Phoronix

The VKMS virtual kernel mode-setting driver is seeing support for PRIME import added to it so this software solution can be used for helping to test multi-GPU ...

Chrome OS gets first Chromebook Enterprise devices, faster Admin Console, and managed Linux environments  VentureBeat

Google announces Chromebook Enterprise laptops, Dell's Latitude 5300 for $819 and Latitude 5400 for $699, faster Admin console, and new Chrome OS ...

Chrome OS gets first Chromebook Enterprise devices, faster Admin Console, and managed Linux environments  VentureBeat

Google announces Chromebook Enterprise laptops, Dell's Latitude 5300 for $819 and Latitude 5400 for $699, faster Admin console, and new Chrome OS ...