Open-source News

Similar to Fedora's move last year to compress RPMs with Zstd rather than XZ for much faster decompression speeds and a better compression ratio at the highest level, OpenMandriva has now enacted a similar change...

OpenMandriva Is The Latest Linux Distribution Using Zstd To Compress Packages  Phoronix

CES 2020: New Dell Linux developer XPS 13 laptop is on its way  ZDNet

Total War: WARHAMMER II - The Shadow & The Blade DLC out now on macOS and Linux  Gamasutra

Firefox 72 improves site notifications tool, rolls out picture-in-picture video to Mac and Linux  BetaNews

This weekend I posted some fresh benchmarks of the Liquorix kernel against upstream Linux 5.4 and found the gaming performance to be rather disappointing for that kernel flavor derived from the "Zen" patches and more. Fortunately, the Zen kernel patches now include a fix that should make their gaming performance more competitive...

Firefox 72 arrives with fingerprinting blocked by default, Picture-in-Picture on macOS and Linux  VentureBeat

Endless OS, a Kid-Friendly Linux, Is Coming to Raspberry Pi  Tom's Hardware

Linux Kernel "Zen" Downstream Pulls In A MuQSS Fix To Help Gaming Performance  Phoronix

Firefox 72 arrives with fingerprinting blocked by default, Picture-in-Picture on macOS and Linux  VentureBeat

Splashtop Announces Support for Remote Access to Linux Computers from Any Other Device  GlobeNewswire

Splashtop Announces Support for Remote Access to Linux Computers from Any Other Device  Yahoo Finance

Last week I reported on a possible workaround for helping AMD APUs with stability issues on recent Linux kernels. That behavior will now be the new temporary default in dealing with stability issues on Raven APUs...

AMD To Restore Retry Faults Behavior To Help With Raven Stability  Phoronix

Rockchip PX30 Display Support Coming With Linux 5.6  Phoronix

Adding to the many changes on the way with Linux 5.6 is the Rockchip DRM display driver supporting the PX30 SoC...

IOTA developer builds OpenEmbedded Layer for Linux based devices  Crypto News Flash

A system admin often writes Bash scripts, some short and some quite lengthy, to accomplish various tasks.

Have you ever looked at an installation script provided by a software vendor? They often add a lot of functions and logic in order to ensure that the installation works properly and doesn’t result in damage to the customer’s system. Over the years, I’ve amassed a collection of various techniques for enhancing my Bash scripts, and I’d like to share some of them in hopes they can help others. Here is a collection of small scripts created to illustrate these simple examples.

read more

Piwheels automates building Python wheels (pre-compiled Python packages) for all of the projects on PyPI, the Python Package Index, using Raspberry Pi hardware to ensure compatibility. This means that when a Raspberry Pi user wants to install a Python library using pip, they get a ready-made compiled version that's guaranteed to work on the Raspberry Pi. This makes it much easier for Raspberry Pi users to dive in and get started with their projects.

read more

Endless OS, a Kid-Friendly Linux, Is Coming to Raspberry Pi  Tom's Hardware