Linux Mint 20 "Ulyana" Released - Based On Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
Linux Mint 20 "Ulyana" is shipping this weekend as the newest major release to this user-friendly desktop Linux distribution derived from the Ubuntu LTS package set...
Mageia 8 Alpha 1 Released With Better ARM Support, Linux 5.7 Kernel
Mageia 8 Alpha 1 is out this morning as the newest version of this Linux distribution that originates from the once legendary Mandrake Linux...
LKRG 0.8 Released For Increasing Linux Kernel Runtime Security
Version 0.8 of the Linux Kernel Runtime Guard (LKRG) has been released for further enhancing the runtime security provided by this out-of-tree kernel code plus other general improvements...
Google Posts Patches So The Linux Kernel Can Be LTO-Optimized By Clang
A Google engineer has posted patches for review so that the mainline Linux kernel can be built with Link-Time Optimizations (LTO) by the LLVM Clang code compiler...
NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Driver Finally Adds External Memory Host Support
NVIDIA today released a new Vulkan beta driver for Linux systems at version 440.66.17...
LibreOffice 7.0 Beta 2 Released For This Open-Source, Vulkan-Supported Office Suite
LibreOffice 7.0 is aiming for release in early August but for that release to be a success they need help in testing...
OmniOS Updates Bring Microcode Mitigation For CrossTalk/SRBDS
New OmniOS Community Edition releases for this open-source Solaris/Illumos-based operating system are now available that principally bring updated Intel CPU microcode for mitigating the CrossTalk / SRBDS vulnerability...
Perl 5.32 Released With Unicode 13.0 Support, Performance Enhancements
Perl is out this weekend with Perl 5.32 as the latest version of this interpreted programming language...
LLVM Is Looking At Establishing An "Incubator" Process For Encouraging New Sub-Projects
In addition to changing the acceptable language within the LLVM project, another topic this week sure to be interesting is on the establishing of an "incubator" process similar to that of Apache Incubator projects...
LLVM Developers Plotting Path Forward For Moving To A New Git Branch Name
LLVM is the latest open-source project working to shift their Git development terminology away from the "master" branch naming and to something more inclusive. Nearly everyone who voiced their opinion so far were in favor of this change, but there still are open matters such as what to call their new main development branch, the involved technical costs, and how quickly such a transition should happen...