FOSS Force News Wire

The FOSS Force News Wire pulls mostly FOSS related news stories from a variety of sources and is updated every 30 minutes. The News Wire is also available as an RSS feed at http://fossforce.com/newswire.

• Top 20 Uses of Linux
  The Linux OS and its related distros and flavors have transformed it from hardcore software into an industrial brand. Even if you are not a fan of it, ... read more
  Tux MachinesJanuary 28, 2021 12:34 am
  6 hours ago
• parted-3.4 released [stable]
  

  Parted 3.4 has been released. This release includes many bug fixes and new features. Here is Parted's home page: http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/ For a summary of all changes and contributors, ... read more
  Tux MachinesJanuary 28, 2021 12:30 am
  6 hours ago
• Kernel: LWN's Latest and IO_uring Patches
  Resource limits in user namespaces User namespaces provide a number of interesting challenges for the kernel. They give a user the illusion of owning the system, but ... read more
  Tux MachinesJanuary 28, 2021 12:19 am
  6 hours ago
• Installing Debian on modern hardware
  

  It is an unfortunate fact of life that non-free firmware blobs are required to use some hardware, such as network devices (WiFi in particular), audio peripherals, and video ... read more
  Tux MachinesJanuary 28, 2021 12:15 am
  6 hours ago
• Wayland 1.19 Released With Small Protocol Updates, Fixes
  

  Wayland 1.18 released back in February 2020 while now nearly one year later it's been succeeded by Wayland 1.19. Even with one year passing, Wayland 1.19 is ... read more
  Tux MachinesJanuary 28, 2021 12:04 am
  6 hours ago
• Britain Helps Children Learn From Home By Procuring Them Laptops Preloaded With Russian Malware
  As the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the world, one of the main points of contention has been how to handle schools. Some countries sent all students home to keep ... read more
  TechdirtJanuary 27, 2021 11:04 pm
  7 hours ago
• Android Leftovers
  Samsung’s Galaxy S21 series still lacks Android’s seamless updates feature Galaxy S10 One UI 3.0 Android 11 update rollout has been resumed Samsung ... read more
  Tux MachinesJanuary 27, 2021 9:34 pm
  9 hours ago
• Stable Kernels: 5.10.11, 5.4.93, and 4.19.171
  

  I'm announcing the release of the 5.10.11 kernel. All users of the 5.10 kernel series must upgrade. The updated 5.10.y git tree can be found at: ... read more
  Tux MachinesJanuary 27, 2021 9:02 pm
  9 hours ago
• RISC-V based SoC is 5G basestaton on a chip
  

  OpenRAN-based solutions with components from different vendors offer more flexibility and programmer access, with more functions running in software than hardware, typically under a Linux OS, explains ... read more
  Tux MachinesJanuary 27, 2021 8:54 pm
  9 hours ago
• [$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 28, 2021
  The LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 28, 2021 is available. ... read more
  Linux World NewsJanuary 27, 2021 8:50 pm
  9 hours ago