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New year, new Opensource.com community manager

opensource.com - Sat, 01/01/2022 - 16:00

I am privileged to be here at Opensource.com as the new community manager. I'm looking forward to working with existing correspondents and contributors, and also bringing in new contributors and increasing the diversity of thoughts and ideas shared here on Opensource.com.

My open source journey

I moved through several lifetimes before coming into tech and all have shaped me into who I am as a contributor to open source. Here are some of the most impactful experiences of my life so far:


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Happy New Year & A Wrap On 2021

Phoronix - Sat, 01/01/2022 - 04:49
It's now another year in the books and in just six months and a few days will mark 18 years since starting Phoronix.com and 14 years of developing the public, open-source Phoronix Test Suite benchmarking software...

Intel To Ring In 2022 With New, Faster AV1 Encoder Release

Phoronix - Sat, 01/01/2022 - 03:00
Intel in cooperation with the Alliance for Open Media continues developing SVT-AV1 as the flagship CPU-based AV1 video encoder. With the next SVT-AV1 update there are performance optimizations as well as several new preset levels allowing for even greater performance. Here are some early benchmarks of that updated SVT-AV1.

Libadwaita 1.0 Released For Kicking Off A New Year Of GNOME App Development

Phoronix - Sat, 01/01/2022 - 01:49
GNOME's libadwaita 1.0 has been released for this library implementing the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) and complementary to the GTK toolkit...

Mesa's Radeon Vulkan Driver Lands Experimental Mesh Shaders

Phoronix - Fri, 12/31/2021 - 22:36
Thanks to Valve engineer Timur Kristóf and other open-source developers involved, Mesa's Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" is ending 2021 on a high note: mesh shaders was just merged!..

CentOS Linux 8 Reaches End-Of-Life

Phoronix - Fri, 12/31/2021 - 21:55
Today is the unfortunate day marking CentOS Linux 8 reaching end-of-life status as a free alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8...

2021 Brought A Convenient Installer For Arch Linux, Powering The Steam Deck

Phoronix - Fri, 12/31/2021 - 19:50
Arch Linux had a pretty great year with introducing "Archinstall" as part of the official install media as a new, optional installer for conveniently installing the distribution to Valve choosing Arch Linux as their new SteamOS 3.0 base that will power their forthcoming Steam Deck handheld game console...

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