Open-source News

ExLight Linux Distro Is Now Based on Debian Buster, Powered by Linux Kernel 5.4  Softpedia News

New Roboto botnet emerges targeting Linux servers running Webmin  ZDNet

Linux 5.4 Is Big For AMD Radeon Users From New GPU Support To Slightly Faster Performance  Phoronix

With Linux 5.4 due to be released this coming Sunday, 24 November, one of the big "winners" of this next kernel are AMD Radeon customers. Linux 5.4 brings support for new GPUs as well as better performance for existing graphics cards. Here are some fresh benchmarks of the performance wins as a result of the LRU bulk moves functionality.

System76 Will Start Designing And Building Its Own Linux Laptops Beginning January 2020  Forbes

Last week ago we provided a number of benchmarks looking at the performance impact from Intel's Jump Conditional Code (JCC) Erratum that required a CPU microcode update to mitigate but that comes with a performance hit. At least Intel has pending GNU Assembler patches to help offset that performance hit. In time for last week's articles I didn't have a chance to perform Skylake Xeon Scalable (1st Gen) benchmarks but now here are some metrics alongside Cascade Lake...

Release notes for Linux client version 2.0  Security Boulevard

NVIDIA has released CUDA 10.2 for SuperComputing 19 week. CUDA 10.2 comes with some interesting changes, including to be the last release that will support Apple's macOS and the introduction of a standard C++ library for GPUs...

Intel's SVT-AV1 video encoder for AV1 is currently the fastest AV1 CPU-based encoder we have seen but it's looking like in due time Rav1e could be closing in on it if they continue with their current trajectory...

Google wants to unfork Android back to the Linux kernel  The INQUIRER

The latest enterprise push by Ubuntu maker Canonical is Charmed OSM as their own commercial flavor of Open-Source MANO...

IBM, Microsoft and Linux plan to send patent trolls back under the rickety bridge  The INQUIRER

The Intel "Gen11" Iris Plus Graphics on Ice Lake are a big upgrade over earlier Intel graphics generations but the gains are even more enticing if making use of their new Gallium3D OpenGL Linux driver...

ACBbackdoor trojan designed to hit Linux and Windows systems  SC Magazine UK

Python 2.7 will officially become unsupported beginning January 1, 2020. There is one final bugfix planned after this date, but then that's it.

What does this end of life (EOL) mean for you? If you run Python 2, you need to migrate.

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No matter what operating system you're running, there are usually several ways to install an application. Sometimes you might find an application in an app store, or you might install it with a package manager like DNF on Fedora or Brew on Mac, and other times, you might download an executable or an installer from a website. Because Java is such a popular backend for so many applications, it's good to understand the different ways you can install it. The good news is that you have many options, and this article covers them all.

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The exciting thing about open source is that nobody needs permission to try something new. That's a formula that allows new ideas to emerge all the time.

Here are three open source projects that are still in their early stages but show real promise.

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The long overdue X.Org Server 1.21 still hasn't been organized for release but at least the extra time is allowing more XWayland bits to land...

In this article, you will learn how to install the curl command-line tool for transferring data to and from a server using various types of requests. It’s an alternative to downloading files other than...

IBM and Microsoft and Linux Foundation to fight patent trolls with 'multi-million' scheme  The Register