Open-source News

Flax Engine is the latest game engine seeing native Linux support and in the process the renderer also picked up Vulkan support...

Flax Engine Ported To Linux + Vulkan Rendering Support  Phoronix

Coin Stealer Found in Monero Linux Binaries From Official Site  BleepingComputer

NextCry Ransomware Goes After Linux Servers  Tom's Hardware

While the patches overnight about "substantial" improvement in power usage for Intel graphics on Linux were exciting on first look, it's less so now as it turns out last week's graphics driver security fixes is what regressed the Intel graphics power-savings...

Open Creation Network teams up with IBM, Linux Foundation, and Microsoft to protect open up-source program from patent trolls  Mash Viral

Open Invention Network teams up with IBM, Linux Foundation, and Microsoft to protect open-source software from patent trolls  ZDNet

In addition to AMD's SC19 announcements yesterday, their embargo just lifted on the Radeon Pro W5700 as their first 7nm workstation graphics card build on their new RDNA architecture...

Announced earlier this month, the Athlon 3000G is shipping today a week ahead of the Ryzen Threadripper 3000 series. The Athlon 3000G is AMD's new sub-$50 processor for lightweight desktop purposes...

Linux Operating System Market Analysis and Demand with Forecast Overview to 2026  Tech Admirers

In recent weeks AMD driver developers have been working on EXT_direct_state_access improvements within Mesa and following their latest code push today now support the D.S.A. extension for OpenGL compatibility profile contexts...

How to install TeamViewer on Ubuntu or any other Debian-based Linux distribution  H2S Media

VIA-owned Centaur Technology has finally announced their newest project past the decade old VIA Nano... Centaur Tech is rolling out an eight-core x86 SoC that features an integrated AI coprocessor...

Open Invention Network Teams with IBM, Linux Foundation and Microsoft to Further Protect Open Source from Patent Trolls  GlobeNewswire

We know where Rick (from Rick and Morty) stands on Intel vs AMD debate  The Next Web

Longtime open-source Intel Linux graphics driver developer Chris Wilson has sent out a set of 19 patches for what he calls fast soft-RC6 support and is a "substantial" improvement over the current driver code for Intel graphics power-savings...

Intel Linux Graphics Driver Patches For Fast Soft-RC6 Yield Big Energy Use Improvement  Phoronix

I've been a user of the Vim text editor for about two decades. For a little while, I have been customizing my Vim configuration, only using plugins for the last couple of years.

Recently, when I was redoing my setup (as I do every so often), I decided it was a good opportunity to identify the best Vim plugins for programming in multiple languages and a way to combine those plugins for each language I program in.

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Periodically, I need to come up with new passwords, some of which need to be more secure than others. My mind often seems to draw a blank when I have to create a new login, and this short Bash script fills that void. Full disclosure: I found most of this script posted somewhere and made a minor modification to it.

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NetBSD is famous for running on basically anything, but did you know its second claim to fame is the pkgsrc package manager? Like NetBSD, pkgsrc runs on basically anything, or at least anything Unix and Unix-like. You can install pkgsrc on BSD, Linux, Illumos, Solaris, and Mac. All told, over 20 operating systems are supported.

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