Category:2020 News Archive
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Pages in category "2020 News Archive"
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- GCC 11 Will Be Set In Stone On November 15th
- Genius Mathematics Tool 1.0.25 Is Released
- Gentoo Linux Starts Offering Pre-Built Kernel Packages
- Geoffrey Knauth Elected President Of The Free Software Foundation
- Get Tomb Raider For Free On Steam Until March 24th
- GIMP 2.10.22 Is Released With AVIF Support And Improved Support For Many Other File Formats
- GIMP Starts Offering Nightly GIMP 3.0 Pre-Release Builds, But Only For Windows
- Glib-networking up to 2.64.2 accepts any TLS certificate as valid for any domain
- GNOME 3.36 "Gresik" Is Released
- GNOME 3.38 "Orbis" Is Released
- GNOME And KDE Are Merging To KNOME - The Next Generation Linux Desktop Environment
- GNOME Internet Radio Locator 3.0.5 Is Released With More Radio Stations
- GNOME Proposal Aims To Make GNOME Applications More Environment Friendly By Optimizing Them
- GNU grep 3.5 Is Released
- GNU make 4.3 Is Released
- GNU Parallel Ginsburg Is Released
- GNU sed 4.8 Is Released
- GNUnet 0.13.0 Released With A New Protocol Version
- GNUnet 0.13.3 Released With Hand-full Of Bug Fixes
- Godot Game Engine Awarded $250k USD Grant From Epic Games
- Google Chrome 86 and Brave 1.13.82, Both Based On Chromium 86, Are Released With Security Enhancements And New Features
- Google Is Cracking Down On Fediverse Applications For Android
- Google Stadia Dev Brings Spinlocks Back From The Dead, Blames The Linux Kernels Scheduler For Performance Problems
- GParted 1.1.0 Is Released
- GStreamer 1.18 Is Released
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- Having A Hobby Will Make You Happy
- How Arch Linux Manage Their Servers: "Infrastructure at Arch: Making servers go brrrrr"
- How the ACO Mesa Vulkan Shader Compiler For AMD GPUs Came To Be: From Prototype To Default
- HTTPS Security Certificates Will Soon Have To Be Limited To A One Year Long Life-Time To Be Valid
- Huawei Announces OpenHarmony Project With A BSD-Licensed HarmonyOS Source Code Release
- Huawei Post Record $122 Billion Revenue For 2019 Despite US Government Sanctions
- Humble Bundle Has A Huge Sale With Many Native Linux Games
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- Improved Lenovo Laptop Hotkey Support Coming To Linux 5.10
- India Announces RISC-V Innovation Contest
- Inkscape 1.0.1 Is Released
- Intel Is Pushing For 1984-Style Revision Of Words Allowed In Linux Kernel Development And Documentation
- Intel Unveils Tiger Lake Laptop CPU Line-Up With Impressive Graphics Performance Numbers
- Intel's latest NEO OpenCL Driver Claims Support For OpenCL 3.0 On All Intel Chips Going Back To Broadwell
- Intels 10th-gen Series CPUs Revealed: Up To 10 Cores and 5.3 GHz on 14nm++++
- It Is OK To Not Use Firefox If You Are For Free Software
- It Never Ends: Two More Intel CPU Vulnerabilities Disclosed
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- K-Pop Fans Are Outraged Over The 2020 Idol Star Athletics Championship Taking Place Without A Live Audience
- KDE Launches MyKDE Identity Service
- KDE Launches Plasma Widget Tutorial Website
- KDE Plasma 5.18 Wallpaper Winner Announced
- KDE Plasma Will Default To Using The Wayland Display Server On Fedora 34
- Kdenlive 19.12.2 Is Released With Bug Fixes And Qt 5.14 Compatibility
- Kdenlive 20.08.2 Is Released With 17 Bug-Fixes And GPU Accelerated Video Rendering
- KnotDNS 3.0.0 Is Released
- Korean Trot Singer Kang Hye Yeon's Latest Cover Brings Attention To Lonely Single Mothers
- Krita 5.0 Will Have A Built-In Screen Recorder
- Krita Paint Program Will Get SVG Mesh Gradients, Storyboard Docker, MyPaint Brush Engine And Dynamic Fill Layers Thanks To GSoC Students
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- Latest 20.41.18123 Intel NEO OpenCL Driver Claims "Production" OpenCL 3.0 Quality On All Intel CPUs Going Back To Broadwell
- Latest Linux Kernels Fix Security Flaw In The Intel Processors With iGPUs
- Lenovo's Increasing Their Line-Up Of ThinkPad And ThinkStation Computers With Linux Pre-Installed
- LibreDWG 0.10.1 Brings GNU One Step Closer To Liberating AutoCAD Files
- LibreOffice 7.0.2 Is Released With 131 Bug-Fixes
- LibrePlanet 2020 Is CANCELLED
- Libtorrent 2.0 Is Released With BitTorrent 2.0 Support
- Libtorrent-rasterbar Now Features WebTorrent Support In The Master Branch
- Linus Torvalds Has Merged Inclusive-Terminology Rules Into The Linux Kernel Git Tree
- Linus Torvalds: AVX512 Is "A Hot Mess" "I hope AVX512 dies a painful death"
- Linux 5.10 To Get Creative SoundBlaster AE-7 Audio Card Driver
- Linux 5.10 Will Have A Fully Lock-Less Ring Buffer
- Linux 5.5 "Kleptomaniac Octopus" Is Released
- Linux 5.5rc6 Is Released, 5.5 Final Is Coming In Two To Three Weeks
- Linux 5.5rc7 Is Released
- Linux 5.6 Is Released
- Linux 5.6 Will Support Per-Die Temperature Readings On AMD Zen2 Processors
- Linux 5.6.2 Is Released With Intel Wifi Fix
- Linux 5.8 Brings Per-Core Energy Sensor Support For AMD CPUs
- Linux 5.8 Is Released And It The Largest Release Of All Time
- Linux 5.9 Brings Hardware Accelerated Video Playback To 10+ Year Old AMD Graphics Cards Using The "amdgpu" Linux Kernel Driver
- Linux 5.9 Is Released With New Drivers, Improved AMD GPU Support, And Support The x86-64 FSGSBASE CPU Instructions
- Linux 5.9 rc1 Is Released With Support for Upcoming AMD GPUs and Corsair RGB Hubs
- Linux 5.9 rc4 Released
- Linux 5.9 Will Be Delayed One Week
- Linux 5.9-rc7 Is A Total Disaster On Machines With Intel Graphics
- Linux 5.9-rc8 Is Out With PCIe IDs for AMDs Upcoming Sienna Cichlid GPUs
- Linux 5.9.1 And Older Stable Kernel Updates Fixing "Bleeding Tooth" Bluetooth Vulnerability Are Available
- Linux AV1 Hardware Video Decoding Support Ready For Intel Tiger Lake
- Linux Desktop Market Share Could Have Doubled, Or Stagnated, In Q2 2020
- Linux Desktop Market Share Fell 0.88% In August 2020
- Linux Desktop Market Share Nearly Halved During September 2020
- Linux Desktop Market Share Steady at 0.8-3.5% In July 2020
- Linux Desktop Users Who Use Qt or KDE Software May Want To Hard-Code QT AUTO SCREEN SCALE FACTOR and XCURSOR SIZE
- Linux Foundation Announces "Climate Finance Foundation"
- Linux From Scratch 10.0 Released
- Linux Gamers Account For Close To 1% In The Steam Hardware Survey For January 2020
- Linux Is Dropping WiMAX Support
- Linux Kernel 5.5 Will Not Fix The Frequent Intel GPU Hangs In Recent Kernels
- Linux Mint 20 Blocks And Removes Snap Citing Backdoor To Canonicals SnapCraft Store
- Linux Remains Licensed Under The GNU GPL v2 And New Contributions Remain Subject To It
- Linux Support for Variable Refresh Rates On Gen12+ Intel GPUs Is On The Way
- Lumina 1.6 Is Released For Those Who Want A Sort-Of Really Light-Weight Desktop Environment
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- Manjaro Linux Lead Developer In Hot Waters Over Donation Slush Fund For Laptop And Personal Items
- Manjaro Linux Lost All Of Their Support Forum Images
- Manjaro Lomiri Alpha1 for PinePhone Is Released
- Martin Dougiamas: Why Openness in Education is essential
- Mastodon 3.1.0 Is Released With Bookmarks, UI animations And More
- Meet The New Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board
- Mesa 19.3.2 Is Released With SDMA Disabled On Older AMD GPUs
- Mesa 20 Will Have SDMA Disabled On AMD RX-Series GPUs
- Mesa 20.0.0 Is Released
- Mesa 20.0.0-rc1 Is Released With Vulkan 1.2 Support and Iris As New Default Intel OpenGL Driver
- Mesa 20.0.0-rc3 Is Released With Barely Nothing New Since rc2
- Mesa 20.1.10 Is Released With A Handful Of Bug-Fixes
- Mesa 20.1.5 Is Released With 29 Bug-Fixes And SDMA Disabled On Vega GPUs
- Mesa 20.2.0 Is Released
- Mesa Developers Debate Using Rust Code In Mesa
- Mesa Just Got A Significant Performance Boost For Intel Tiger Lake Chips
- Microblogging Client Choqok 1.7.0 Is Released
- Microsoft Edge For Linux Is Here
- Microsoft Edge Is Coming To Linux In October 2020
- Microsoft WordPad 2020 Will Contain In-App Advertisements
- Modern Web Standards Are Leaving Niche Web Browsers Behind
- Mozilla Fires 250 Employees, Blames COVID-19 For Years Of Mismanagement
- Mozilla Fires 70 Employees, Apple Offers New Jobs
- Mozilla Is Rolling Out Redirect Tracking Protection In Firefox In A Somewhat Concerning Fashion
- Mpv drops GNOME support
- Mstdn.jp Is Back After Hours Of Downtime Due Post Containing Islamic Terrorist Material
- Mutazione Got A Native Linux Version
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- NAVER Whale Browser 2.8.105.22 Is Released
- New Chinese Free Speech Law Limits Chinese Citizens Ability To Participate In Free Software Development
- New GNU Kart Coming To SuperTuxKart 1.3
- New Hong Kong Security Law Could Slow SuperTuxKart Development
- New Modern exFAT Driver From Samsung Is Coming In Linux 5.7
- New Nvidia 440.49 Linux Driver Brings DisplayPort Multi-Stream Audio Support
- New Russian Legislation Would Outlaw Tor And Sites Using Encrypted ClientHello
- Newly Published Raccoon Attack Could Be Used To Do Man-In-The-Middle Attacks on TLS Connections Against Rare Servers
- Nmap 7.90 Is Released With 1,200 New Fingerprints And 70+ Bugs Squashed
- Node.js 15.0 Is Released
- Norwegian Study Finds The Online Advertisement Industry To Be "OUT OF CONTROL"
- NSA and CIA Warn That The Russians Are Deploying Linux-Specific "Drovorub" Malware
- Nvidia Drops Linux Support For GeForce G8x, G9x, and GT2xx graphics cards
- Nvidia Partially Kills SLI In Their Latest Linux Driver
- Nvidia Swallows ARM For $40 Billion
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- Pale Moon v28.9.0.2 Is Released
- Patently Obvious: The Year The Lawyers Came To FOSS
- Per-Process Bandwidth Monitor Bandwhich 0.10.0 Is Released
- Plausible Analytics Switches From MIT To GNU AGPL License Due To Competition
- Prepare To Re-Format If You Are Using An Older XFS Filesystem
- Proton 5.0-1 Is Released With Wine 5.0, DXVK 1.5.4 and FAudio 20.02
- Python 3.9 Is Released
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- Rackspace's Free Hosting For Free Software Program Has Ended
- Recording Industry Association of America Gets Youtube-dl Kicked Off GitHub
- Red Hat Recommends Disabling Hardware Acceleration on Intel Integrated Graphics Due To Hardware Flaw
- Remotely Exploitable Root Vulnerability In OpenSMTPD Disclosed
- Richard Brown: MicroOS Desktop, The Road to Daily Driving
- Richard Brown: Regular Releases are Wrong, Roll for your life
- Richard Matthew Stallman is Still Monitoring the Attacks on Software Freedom
- Rocket League Is Ditching Linux Support
- Rockit Girl Wishes You A Very Happy Chuseok Harvest Festival Holiday
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- SDL2 Gains OS/2 Support
- SeaMonkey 2.53.1 Beta 1 Is Released: Not Fully Abandoned Abandonware
- Second Mini Album "Dear My Color" From Korean Pop Sensation 보라미유 (Boramiyu) Is Released And It Is Wonderful
- Sensor Fusion Hub Driver For AMD Laptops With Gyroscopes Is Coming To Linux 5.11
- SLOS-GIMPainter Brush Package Can Make GIMP A Better Painting Tool
- Some Proprietary AMD GPU Source Code Has Leaked
- Steam And Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Set New Concurrent User Records Sunday
- Steam's Hardware Survey For December 2019 Places Linux Gaming Interest At A Yearly Low
- Strawberry Music Player 0.7 Brings Qt 6 Support, 12 Bug-Fixes And Many Improvements
- Suddenly Seeing Random KDE Programs Scale And Become Huge While Others Do Not When Launched Outside Of KDE Plasma? This Variable Can Save The Day
- SuperTuxKart 1.1 Is Released With Better MultiPlayer Support, Better HiDPI Support and A New Arena Track
- SuperTuxKart 1.2 Is Released With Improved Carts, Better Gamepad Support, Improved Tutorials And More
- SuperTuxKart git20200711 Snapshot Is Released For Android, Linux, and Windows
- Support For Mysterious AMD VanGogh and Dimgrey Cavefish GPUs Merged To The Mesa RadeonSI OpenGL Driver
- Sweden Has Ended Democracy With The Passing Of A New Secret Electronic Surveillance Law Which Allows Law Enforcement To Secretly Install Hardware And Software Backdoors On Electronic Devices
- Systemd-Homed Is Merged And It Will Fundamentally Change Linux Home Directories
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- The Benefits Of Having A Compressed zram Swap Device On Linux
- The Big Plans For wlroots
- The Closed-Source NVIDIA Linux Driver Is Incompatible With Linux 5.9 And Support Won't Come Until Mid-November
- The Current State Of Gamescope
- The Current State Of Older AMD Graphics Hardware On Linux: What Driver To Use And What To Expect
- The Current State Of The Tor Network September 2020
- The Debian Project Wants You To Tell Them If And Why You Are Using Debian LTS Versions
- The Fake ‘Door Sign’ Used to Frame Richard Stallman and Misrepresent Him One Year Ago (the Media Never Corrected This Slanderous Allegation)
- The Fedora For Smartphones Is Being Revived With A PinePhone Edition
- The First Ever Microsoft Linux Conference Is Fully Booked
- The Flutter SDK Is Ready To Be Used For Native Linux Software Development
- The Free Software Foundation Folds On Their Only Free Video Formats Policy
- The FSF Has "Respects Your Freedom" Certified A Rebranded Wifi Card from 2010
- The GNU Operating System Turns 37
- The KDE Akademy Awards Winners 2020
- The Linux-Compatible RaspberryPi-like PicoRio Pygmy RISC-V SOC Could Be A Game-Changer For RISC-V
- The Massive Intel Leak: The Files It Contains And Their Content
- The New Wine Vulkan Backend For DirectX 9-11 Is Coming Along Nicely
- The Nightly Tor Browser Build Has Support For Namecoin Domain Names
- The Qt 5.15 Disaster On Multi-Monitor Setups
- The Real Risks And Costs Of Using Cloud Services: The Freedesktop.org Inside Scoop
- The Secret Chronicles of Dr. M 2.1.0 RC1 Is Released
- The Secret Chronicles of Dr. M. 2.1.0 beta 2 Is Released
- The State Of Vulkan Rendering In Chromium 84: Say Goodbye To All VRAM, RAM and Swap, Chromium Will Eat It All
- The Wine 5.13 Development Release Offers 22 Application-Specific Bug Fixes
- The World Economic Forum Warns That 2021 Could Be The Year Of The CyberAttacks