Open-source News

The Free Software Foundation's "Respect Your Freedom" program has tended to mostly endorse products like old motherboards re-flashed with Coreboot/Libreboot along with dated networking products and obscure products like USB microphones and USB to parallel printer port cables. But today comes the Free Software Foundation's most prominent RYF endorsement...

Rust 1.39 is out today as the latest stable update for this popular programming language...

SMARC module runs Linux on i.MX8X  LinuxGizmos.com

Get the Vocore2 mini Linux computer bundle for just $69  Windows Central

Stunning Desktop Linux OS Deepin v20 Has A Release Date  Forbes

Kinvolk Announces Commercial Support and Update Service for Flatcar Container Linux  PR Web

Linux Operating System Market Witness Highest Growth In Near Future | Leading Key Players – IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, openSUSE, Fedora Linux  Market Expert

How to set a Linux hostname without rebooting  TechRepublic

While the processors are not shipping until later this month, AMD is today making known their next batch of CPUs being released...

Approaching ten years old, OpenIndiana is still kicking as one of the few platforms derived from the former OpenSolaris (now "Illumos") code-base as a Linux/BSD alternative...

Linux users warned to update libarchive to beat flaw  Naked Security

GNU Binutils with its "Gas" assembler has now added the rest of the instructions supported by the AMD Zen 2 microarchitecture that previously were unsupported by this piece of the GNU toolchain...

PinePhone with Linux OS up for pre-order next week  Notebookcheck.net

Jolla has outed Sailfish OS "Torronsuo" or more easily known as the version 3.2 update for this mobile Linux-based largely proprietary operating system...

Microsoft's new Edge web browser has been confirmed for a future launch on Linux  OnMSFT

Microservices—applications broken down into smaller, composable pieces that work together—are getting as much attention as the hottest new restaurant in town. (If you're not yet familiar, dive into What Are Microservices before continuing here.)

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Adding a user is one of the first things you do on a new computer system. And you often have to manage users throughout the computer's lifespan.

My article on the useradd command provides a deeper understanding of user management on Linux. Useradd is a command-line tool, but you can also manage users graphically on Linux. That's the topic of this article.

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Previously, I explained the importance of forking repositories. Once I finished the actual "writing the code" part of making my first open source pull request, I felt excellent. It seemed like the hard part was finally over. What’s more, I felt great about the code that I wrote.

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Edge Chromium Coming to Linux as Well, Confirms Microsoft  Beebom

Microsoft Edge For Linux "Confirmed" By Microsoft  Fossbytes