Open-source News

RPM 4.15 is officially out this week as the newest version of the RPM Package Manager most often associated with Red Hat / Fedora systems...

Open Source Voice Chat Mumble Has a New Release After 10 Years  It's FOSS

Beelink J45 Mini PC Review – Windows 10 Works as Expected, but Linux is Unstable  CNX Software

Oracle has reaffirmed their "long term commitment to deliver innovation on Oracle Solaris" though it still doesn't look like anything past Solaris 11 will materialize...

DXVK lead developer Philip Rebohle has done another weekly update to DXVK for helping weekend gamers have the best Steam Play / Proton experience...

How to easily collect data from you Linux data center server  TechRepublic

Wine 4.17 has been uncorked for weekend testing as the newest bi-weekly feature development release of this open-source project for running Windows games/applications on Linux and other platforms...

The Linux 5.4 kernel merge window is set to close this weekend and as of writing it's still yet to be decided by Linus Torvalds whether to accept the kernel "lockdown" functionality feature for this release...

Linus Torvalds Hasn't Yet Decided On "LOCKDOWN" Functionality For Linux 5.4  Phoronix

In addition to adding Intel Icelake support to the kernel's processor thermal / int340x code, there is an interesting change with the thermal management updates for Linux 5.4 to potentially boost the performance on Intel platforms...

Linux 5.4 To Allow Adjusting Intel TCC Thermal Activation Offset For Better Performance  Phoronix

Microsoft Wants Your Feedback on the Edge Browser for Linux  BleepingComputer

With this week's release of the much anticipated CentOS 8.0 as the community/free rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 as well as the surprise announcement of the bleeding-edge, rolling-release CentOS Stream, we have begun benchmarking these enterprise Linux distribution releases. Up today are our first tests of CentOS 7.7 against CentOS 8.0 and the early CentOS Stream state on Intel Xeon Cascadelake and AMD EPYC Rome servers.

Microsoft is trying to bring the Chromium-based Edge to Linux  Neowin

Microsoft To Bring Edge Browser To Linux  Fossbytes

For owners of recent Lenovo laptops that find frequent thermal throttling and ultimately lower performance compared to Windows, the company has formally acknowledged the issue and is working towards addressing the issue...

Lenovo To Address Linux Laptop Thermal Throttling, Lower Performance Against Windows  Phoronix

Ubuntu Linux 19.10 'Eoan Ermine' Beta available for download  BetaNews

Dineshwar Kumar, Consultant ( Linux) at HCL, Talks about the ECSA - EC-Council Official Blog  EC-Council Blog

ArcoLinux Eases the Way for the Arch-Curious User  LinuxInsider.com