Open-source News

Coming together just over a day ago was the Google folks working on Golang figuring out many Go issues stemmed from a bug on the Linux 5.2 kernel and newer that was worked out to be some sort of a register corruption issue. That issue is now sorted out and fortunately it's a one-line kernel fix and boils down to being a caching issue...

The Linux 5.5 kernel is set to finally eliminate the code backing the sysctl system call, which has been deprecated for about a decade and should have no impact on modern systems of any architecture...

Linux 5.5 Finally Doing Away With The SYSCTL System Call  Phoronix

You've Come a Long Way, Baby Linux  Herald Journalism 24

How to install digital audio workstation Ardour Ubuntu Linux  H2S Media

How to install digital audio workstation Ardour Ubuntu Linux  H2S Media

The OpenGL 4.6 extension is nearly two and a half years old while finally the open-source Mesa OpenGL drivers are catching up to this latest OpenGL revision that offers Vulkan/SPIR-V interoperability and other additions...

The SDL2 library has been seeing a number of additions in recent days to its game controller database by Valve's Sam Lantinga. The latest game controller to be added is for Google's now-shipping Stadia Controller...

Greg Kroah-Hartman mailed in the staging area changes today for the Linux 5.5 kernel and they have already been pulled into mainline...

Linux 5.5 Staging Changes Land With New WiFi Driver To Improved exFAT Support  Phoronix

Roulette guy secret - Roulette wheel meaning - Samsung blackjack 2 linux  Laughlin Entertainer

Cumulus Networks Enhances Linux Based Network Operating System  EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet

As part of the exciting benchmark week and our ongoing tests of Intel Ice Lake on Linux, this next piece has been driven out of curiosity... While recently I posted new benchmark results of Intel Haswell to Ice Lake laptop performance, what about going further back like to the days of Nehalem? Here is that comparison of Core i7 Nehalem to Core i7 Ice Lake including power / performance-per-Watt data, thermal, and performance-per-MHz data too. Enjoy this fun comparison for how the Intel mobile performance on Ubuntu has evolved over the past decade.

While coming a few weeks later and two months after the original "shipping" of Librem 5 smartphones, the Librem 5 Birch batch has begun shipping to actual consumers who pre-ordered the privacy-minded Linux smartphone...

Librem 5 "Birch" Linux Smartphones Begin Shipping To Consumers  Phoronix

Volla Phone is a privacy-centered phone with an AOSP-based OS (or Linux)  Liliputing

PinePhone goes on sale for $150 and Ubuntu Touch ports to the Pi  LinuxGizmos.com

You've Come a Long Way, Linux-Baby  LinuxInsider.com

Flatpak 1.5.1 was released today as a new development release for this Linux application sandboxing technology. With Flatpak 1.5.1 it also begins laying the groundwork for a future payments system around Flathub as what's starting off for allowing donation-based software acquisition but could ultimately turn into a paid app store...

Hacker Favourite Kali Linux Swaps Gnome for Xfce, Adds New Tricks  Computer Business Review