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While I was studying computer science, the notion of open source was much argued over. Our university professors found the idea playful but approached it from an old-school way where they could not fully grasp how it would fit into a business landscape. We students, on the other hand, found the open source movement empowering. Not only did it provide us with reliable and free tools, it also gave us the chance of contributing to a global community from our small classroom in Algeria.

As x86_64 hardware sees improvements in the area of CPU die size reduction, Red Hat has continued to work with our partners to better enable world class performance. Recently, AMD released its ROME line of processors, known as the AMD Epyc 7002 Series. With a die size of 7nm, AMD has achieved several new performance world records and many of these results have been with workloads running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7 and RHEL 8. 

While atomic mode-setting has been around for several years now and to provide a modern mode-setting interface that can test modes prior to the actual operation and reduce possible flickering during mode-setting events and also being faster, the common xf86-video-modesetting driver has at least temporarily disabled the support by default...

Linux for Chromebook may see a choice in distro in the future  Ausdroid

After the successful launch of Linux for Chromebooks which caught the attention of a lot of developers, it seems there's been a push for more. A recent ...

Linux for Chromebook may offer a choice in distro in the future  Ausdroid

After the successful launch of Linux for Chromebooks which caught the attention of a lot of developers, it seems there's been a push for more. A recent ...

Linux Mint team shares the first new features due in next version  Neowin

Clem Lefebvre, head of the Linux Mint project, has shared some of the first details of the upcoming Linux Mint 19.3 update. He said that the new upgrade is ...

Following the recent hype of Intel's Windows graphics driver introducing integer mode scaling support, their open-source Linux graphics driver is receiving similar treatment with nearest-neighbor integer scaling support...

Linux Mint 19.3 Slated for Release on Christmas with HiDPI Improvements, More  Softpedia News

It will be based on the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS operating system.

Go 1.13 was released today as Google's latest update to their language and run-time/toolchain...

Google has officially released Android 10 today, what formerly was known as "Android Q" during development...

Charging Money For Linux Distros And Open Source Software? It's More Successful Than You Think  Forbes

The founder of elementary OS shares two experiences that may change how users and other Linux distributions think about donation models.

Charging Money For Linux Distros And FOSS Software? It's More Successful Than You Think  Forbes

The founder of elementary OS shares two experiences that may change how users and other Linux distributions think about donation models.

As expected after Intel provided Thunderbolt 3 to the USB Promoter Group royalty-free earlier this year, the USB 4.0 "USB4" specification was published today and indeed based on the Thunderbolt protocol specification...

Continuing on from last week's testing that found the AMD Ryzen 9 3900X + ASUS CROSSHAIR VIII HERO WiFi consuming more power on Linux compared to Windows 10, here are some additional metrics after spending a good deal of time over the weekend on further tests...

PowerTop, AMD CPUFreq CPPC & Other Power Tests From The Ryzen 9 3900X On Linux  Phoronix

Continuing on from last week's testing that found the AMD Ryzen 9 3900X + ASUS CROSHAIR VIII HERO WiFi consuming more power on Linux compared to ...

There has been a lot of talk recently of AMD Ryzen 3000 series processors reportedly not hitting their boost clock frequencies, whether stock coolers are adequate for hitting the boost frequencies, and other concerns around the boost behavior on these new Zen 2 processors. AMD issued a statement today they are rolling out a new BIOS/firmware update to help with boost clock frequency optimizations...

As part of my role as a senior product marketing manager at an enterprise software company with an open source development model, I publish a regular update about open source community, market, and industry trends for product marketers, managers, and other influencers. Here are five of my and their favorite articles from that update.

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Adding to the growing list of features for Linux 5.4 with its cycle officially kicking off in mid-September is a kernel scheduler optimization designed to improve load balancing on AMD EPYC servers...

Oreboot has been in development for a number of months now and while at first may have sounded like a novelty downstream of Coreboot is now proving its usefulness and taking shape...

Crypto Mining Malware Targeting Linux Servers  ISBuzz News

It has been reported that a coin-mining malware infection previously only seen on Arm-powered IoT devices has made the jump to Intel systems. Akamai senior ...