Linux Mint Debian 4 Coming - Rebased Against Debian 10, Adds "Boot With NVIDIA" Option
In addition to Linux Mint 20 coming this year that will be based off Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, the Linux Mint crew is preparing LMDE 4 as their re-base of the Debian based variant...
Google's OpenSK Offers An Open-Source Rust-Written Security Key Implementation
Google today announced OpenSK as an open-source Rust-based security key implementation supporting FIDO U2F and FIDO2 standards...
Linux 5.6 Graphics Changes Bring Open-Source NVIDIA Turing, AMD Pollock Enablement
The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel driver updates were sent in today for Linux 5.6 with plenty of fun features in tow...
We Love Performance... So We Love LibreOffice 6.4 With This Office Suite Now Running Faster
LibreOffice 6.4 is out today as the latest feature update to this cross-platform, open-source office suite...
LLVM Founder Chris Lattner Joins SiFive To Lead Platform Engineering
Chris Lattner, the founder of the LLVM compiler stack and sub-projects like the Clang C/C++ compiler front-end, has joined RISC-V firm SiFive...
Linux 5.5 Required More Deblobbing Than Usual For GNU Linux-libre 5.5
Fresh off the Linux 5.5 release, the Free Software Foundation Latin America crew has debuted their GNU Linux-libre 5.5 downstream that continues to be focused on deblobbing the kernel of drivers requiring proprietary firmware and stripping out other code/functionality that is contingent upon non-free software bits and removing the ability to load closed-source kernel modules...
SQLite 3.31 Released With Support For Generated Columns
The widely-used SQLite embedded database library saw its first major release of 2020 this week...
LibreOffice 7.0 Is The Version Now In Development With Its Skia + Vulkan Support
LibreOffice 6.4 is set to be released in the coming days while succeeding that will now be LibreOffice 7.0...
AMDVLK 2020.Q1.1 Brings Some Performance Tuning, Still On Vulkan 1.1
Out this morning is AMDVLK 2020.Q1.1 as AMD's first official open-source Vulkan driver code drop of the new year...
Feral's GameMode 1.5 Now Supports Changing The CPU Governor Differently For iGPUs
GameMode, the open-source daemon led by the game porters at Feral Interactive for dynamically optimizing Linux system performance when running games, is out today with version 1.5 as its newest feature update...