Open-source News

Let's take a trip back to August 1991, when history was in the making. The tech world faced many pivotal moments that continue to impact us today. An intriguing project called the World Wide Web was announced by Tim Berners-Lee and the first website was launched. Super Nintendo was released in the United States and a new chapter of gaming began for kids of all ages. At the University of Helsinki, a student named Linus Torvalds asked his peers for feedback on a new free operating system he had been developing as a hobby. It was then that the Linux kernel was born.

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VMware engineer Nadav Amit who previously pursued "Optpolines" and other possible performance optimizations in light of Spectre / Meltdown vulnerabilities is now proposing patches for deferring PTI flushes to help with addressing the performance overhead caused by Meltdown...

Robert Foss of Collabora was back at the Linux Foundation's Open-Source Summit this week to present the latest state of open-source graphics drivers in the embedded space...

Hardware vendor Ampere Computing with their impressive ARM servers is doing a great job on closely following their hardware's Linux performance as part of a rigorous continuous testing regiment or ensuring quality, compatibility, and stability while being fully-automated...

Ampere Computing Is Keeping Close Track Of The Linux Performance For Their ARM Servers  Phoronix

Hardware vendor Ampere Computing with their impressive ARM servers is doing a great job on closely following their hardware's Linux performance as part of a ...

Mesa's RADV Radeon Vulkan driver just saw a big performance optimization land to benefit APUs like Raven Ridge and Picasso, simply systems with no dedicated video memory...

This $69 bite-sized Linux computer comes with a full-feature display  Windows Central

Linux—a family of open-source operating systems—is a fan-favorite among serious tech enthusiasts due to its incredible power and versatility as a platform.

LG Electronics has been exploring improvements around hibernation/suspend-to-disk to speed-up the Linux boot process for consumer electronics rather than performing cold boots and as part of that is working towards upstream optimizations...

This week saw OpenGL 4.6 support finally merged for Intel's i965 Mesa driver and will be part of the upcoming Mesa 19.2 release. Not landed yet but coming soon is the newer Intel "Iris" Gallium3D driver also seeing OpenGL 4.6 support...

While called the Open-Source Summit, the event is primarily about Linux as after all it's hosted by the Linux Foundation. But at this week's Open-Source Summit in San Diego, Deb Goodkin as the executive director of the FreeBSD Foundation presented. Deb's talk was of course on FreeBSD but also why FreeBSD and Linux developers should work together...

FreeBSD's Executive Director Calls For Linux + BSD Devs To Work Together  Phoronix

While called the Open-Source Summit, the event is primarily about Linux as after all it's hosted by the Linux Foundation. But at this week's Open-Source Summit ...

It has been almost two years since the release of Enlightenment 0.23 while surprising E23 has now surfaced...

Get the world's smallest Linux computer for under $50  Mashable

Functioning as both a computer and tinkerer's toy, this tiny machine has endless use cases.

Get the world's smallest Linux computer for under $50  Yahoo Finance

They say good things come in small packages, but the concept doesn't seem to always apply in tech. Computers with impressive processing power tend to be ...

The best free alternatives to Windows and Microsoft Office  MyBroadband

Many people don't realise that there is high-quality, free software available that can compete with Microsoft Office and the Windows operating system. While you ...

How to install FileZilla on Ubuntu and CentOS via APT & YUM repository  H2S Media

So without any further delay, let's get started with how you can install FileZilla on to a computer with Ubuntu 18.04/19.04 and Centos 7 Linux onboard.

How to install 7-Zip on any Linux distribution from the Snap repository  H2S Media

Just like every other program on Linux, you will have to execute some commands to install 7-Zip on your Linux computer for extracting zipped files.

In computing, a kernel is the low-level software that handles communication with hardware and general system coordination. Aside from some initial firmware built into your computer's motherboard, when you start your computer, the kernel is what provides awareness that it has a hard drive and a screen and a keyboard and a network card. It's also the kernel's job to ensure equal time (more or less) is given to each component so that your graphics and audio and filesystem and network all run smoothly, even though they're running concurrently.

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This coin-sized Linux computer can be yours for $69  The Next Web

TLDR: The VoCore2 can be the heart of literally hundreds of tech projects — so get one and a 4-inch screen for $10 off. Welcome to the day you learned that the ...

The University of California, Los Angeles, (UCLA) Library houses a collection of millions of rare and unique objects, including materials dating from 3000 BCE, that could be damaged, destroyed, or otherwise threatened if they were displayed.

To make these special collections widely available while keeping them secure, the UCLA Library has been modernizing its digital repository, which was established 15 years ago on now-outdated software.

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