Open-source News

GEEK TO ME: Linux as a Windows alternative involves a steep learning curve  Odessa American

KaOS Linux Gets October Release with KDE Plasma 5.17 Desktop, Linux Kernel 5.3  LXer

AMD's Navi 22 and Navi 23 GPUs recently spotted in Linux driver  TechRadar

IBM developers and others continue exploring the potential for address space isolation in the Linux kernel to reduce the risk of leaking sensitive data in attacks like L1 Terminal Fault (L1TF), MDS, and other vulnerabilities. Though this does increase the complexity of the kernel code and the performance hit is still to be evaluated...

Running the Tesla app in GNU/Linux on a desktop or Librem 5?  Tesla Motors Club

Intel's Mika Westerberg who continues overseeing the Linux kernel's Thunderbolt code has prepped more changes ahead of the upcoming Linux 5.5 cycle...

Linux drivers confirm high-end Radeon Navi GPUs, detail new budget cards  TechSpot

In recent years we have seen prominent automobile manufacturer BMW engaging more with open-source and Linux. At this week's Open-Source Summit Europe / Embedded Linux Conference Europe they talked more about their increasing usage of Linux from their assembly line to within automobiles...

BMW Continues Making Great Progress With Linux  Phoronix

With the C++17 support in the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) already being quite mature for about two releases/years, when the GCC 11 development cycle opens they are looking at enabling their GNU dialect of C++17 to be the default standard when compiling C++ code...

Along with Intel sending in their last feature pull to DRM-Next for Linux 5.5, AMD has done the same in sending their lingering AMDGPU feature work for queuing ahead of the upcoming Linux 5.5 merge window...

AMD Sends In More "Arcturus" GPU Code For Linux 5.5  Phoronix

The Rust-written "rav1e" AV1 video encoder continues working on better performance potential with recent Intel/AMD CPUs...

Fresh off last night's Wine 4.19 uncorking, Wine-Staging 4.19 is out as the experimental blend of Wine with more than 800 patches for experimental/testing patches atop the upstream code-base for running Windows games/applications on Linux and other platforms...

Three months, ago the United Nations asked me to join a new advisory board to help them develop their open source strategy and policy. I’m honored to have the opportunity to work together with a group of established experts in open source licensing and policy areas.

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iRobot's Experience in Running ROS2 on Linux-Based Embedded Platforms  InfoQ.com

Pantahub Enables Seamless, Remote Linux Firmware Updates Over-the-Air  CNX Software

With the start of a new month we are always eager to see what Valve reports via their "Steam Survey" for Linux usage (among other stats) for the month prior. The October 2019 numbers are now published but they don't indicate any Linux change in marketshare but with some odd indications...

SPARC CPU In A Cheap FPGA  Hackaday

Wine 4.19 is out today as the project's first development release for November and as we get quite close to the feature freeze / RC period for Wine 5.0 that will be out in early 2020...