Open-source News

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7: Final Full Support Update  ADT Magazine

Open source solutions provider and long-time Java community leader Red Hat announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 (RHEL 7.7) ...

System76's First 4K OLED Linux Laptop Is Now Available to Order  Softpedia News

You can now configure and order an Adder WS laptop.

Linux Software Market Competitors, Rising Demand, Reliability & Insights for next 5 years  Indian Columnist

The Exploration study offers deep assessment of the Linux Software Market and helps market participants to gain a solid base in the industry. The Research ...

Canonical has announced the immediate availability of Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS as the newest update to this long-term support series...

Nvidia GPU Hardware Documents To Bring Performance Boost On Linux  Fossbytes

Nvidia GPU hardware documents have been released on Github for the easier development of Open source Linux drivers, also known as NOUVEAU.

Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS Is Out with Linux Kernel 5.0 from Ubuntu 19.04, Download Now  Softpedia News

All official flavors have been updated to version 18.04.3.

Nvidia gives a major boost to Nouveau open source driver for Linux  TechRadar

Nvidia has extended a helping hand to the developers working on Nouveau, the open source Linux driver for Nvidia graphics cards, in a move that comes rather ...

How to manipulate PDFs on Linux  Network World

While PDFs are generally regarded as fairly stable files, there's a lot you can do with them on both Linux and other systems. This includes merging, splitting, ...

Linux Journal shuts down, because cheapskate Linux users don't spend money  BetaNews

Linux users are cheap as hell. Sorry, but it is largely the truth. I am not just talking about traditional Linux desktop users either, but Android users too. This is why ...

Newcomer EndeavourOS Offers a Friendlier Arch Linux Experience  LinuxInsider.com

Good-bye Antergos Linux. Welcome to the Arch neighborhood, EndeavourOS. Here's hoping that you are well received! That may seem like a strange way to ...

Linux Journal runs shutdown -h now for a second time: Mag editor fires parting shot at proprietary software  The Register

Linux Journal has closed with "no operating funds to continue in any capacity", according to a notice on its site. First published in March 1994, Linux Journal was ...

After a slight delay, The Document Foundation this morning announced the release of the LibreOffice 6.3 cross-platform open-source office suite...

By now you've likely seen the fantastic performance out of AMD's new "Rome" 7002 series processors. The performance is phenomenal and generally blowing well past Intel's Xeon Cascade Lake processors. So that's all good and it can get even better outside of performance: I asked AMD about the prospects of Coreboot / open-source BIOS support and got a surprising response...

Red Hat has joined the RISC-V Foundation to help foster this open-source processor ISA...

Yesterday marked the release of GTK-VNC 1.0 as GNOME's VNC viewer widget for the GTK tool-kit...

Coinciding with yesterday's glorious AMD EPYC "Rome" 7002 series CPU launch, AMD's software folks released AOCC 2.0 as their LLVM/Clang-based compiler optimized for Zen processors. AOCC 2.0 brings optimized compiler support now for Zen 2 processors not just only the EPYC 7002 line-up but also the Ryzen 3000 series consumer processors...

Star Labs Linux Laptop Review — A Premium Ultrabook for Open Source Admirers  Fossbytes

We've previously covered System76 and their Linux loving laptops. But there are several other brands around that put Linux first. Star Labs is one of them and ...

Version 1.14 of the libinput library for unified input handling on Linux X.Org and Wayland systems is now available...

Email remains a fact of life. Despite all its warts, it's still the best way to send information to most people, especially in automated ways that allow messages to queue for recipients.

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Markdown is a widely adopted plain-text formatting syntax used to specify HTML rendering. It is also an essential skill to learn if you want to contribute to open source software. 

Like many concepts in open source communities, there are multiple, domain-specific distributions of Markdown. CommonMark provides an unambiguous rendering specification for defined Markdown incantations while many communities offer extensions to the official specification.

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