Open-source News

How Many More Birthdays Until Bitcoin Wins?  CoinDesk

Latest ExTix: Lots of Flexibility and a Few Flaws  LinuxInsider.com

Chrome OS 80 planned for Debian 10 Buster Linux support  About Chromebooks

Researchers Find SMS Monitoring Malware in Linux Telecom Servers  Security Boulevard

Thanks to Red Hat's Hans de Goede there is another optimization to GNOME's Mutter around XWayland full-screen gaming...

Edgewater Wireless Accepted to the Upstream OpenWrt Repository, A Linux Operating System Targeting Embedded Devices  The Deep Dive

The open-source vkBasalt project is the independent effort implementing AMD Radeon Image Sharpening / Contrast Adaptive Sharpening technique as a Vulkan post-processing layer that can be used regardless of the (Vulkan-powered) game. With vkBasalt 0.1 also now comes the ability to apply FXAA...

Linux to use IOTA tech to launch the data-sharing project Alvarium - IOTA News  Coinnounce

During October on Phoronix there were 287 original news articles and 27 featured-length Linux hardware reviews / benchmark articles, all written by your's truly. Here is a look back at the most popular Linux hardware happenings and other open-source/Linux news for the past month...

Intel's open-source crew has submitted the last of their feature updates to their "i915" Direct Rendering Manager graphics driver for staging in DRM-Next ahead of the upcoming Linux 5.5 kernel cycle...

Intel Submits Last Bits For Linux 5.5 DRM Driver - Includes More TGL/Gen12, Discrete Bit  Phoronix

NVIDIA's Nitin Gupta continues working on proactive compaction for the Linux kernel's memory management code...

NVIDIA Engineer Continues Working On Proactive Memory Compaction For Linux  Phoronix

MidnightBSD is one of the easy-to-use, desktop-focused BSDs that makes it easy to run GNOME and other desktops like Lumina atop its FreeBSD base. MidnightBSD 1.2 was released on Halloween as an update providing updates to its base system and various fixes...

Global Rising Importance For Linux Operating System Market 2020 Evaluates High Growth And Key Players Study - The State News  BBState

A Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server dynamically assigns IP addresses and other network configuration parameters to each device on a network. A DNS forwarder on a LAN forwards DNS queries for non-local domain...

SUSE Brings Enterprise Linux to Oracle Cloud to Meet Growing Demand  AiThority

nnn is an excellent command line based file manager for Linux, macOS and BSDs  Ghacks Technology News

Awk is the ubiquitous Unix command for scanning and processing text containing predictable patterns. However, because it features functions, it's also justifiably called a programming language.

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Another weekend rolls around, and I can spend some time working on my passion projects, including working with single-board computers, playing with emulators, and general tinkering with a soldering iron. Earlier this year, I wrote about resurrecting the Commodore Amiga on the Raspberry Pi. A colleague referred to our shared obsession with old technology as a "passion for preserving our digital culture."

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