Open-source News

5 markdown editors I recommend trying

opensource.com - Wed, 10/13/2021 - 15:01

You can use markdown for anything—formatting websites, authoring books, and writing technical documentation are just some of its uses. I love how easy it is to create rich documents. Everyone has their favorite markdown editor. I have used several on my markdown journey. Here are five markdown editors I have considered. 


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Going to market with an open source product

opensource.com - Wed, 10/13/2021 - 15:00

This article is the sixth in a series on product management in an open source supply chain. In the previous articles, I covered the following topics:


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Transitioning Red Hat’s Marketing leadership

Red Hat News - Wed, 10/13/2021 - 12:00

Today, we are sharing news that Tim Yeaton, Red Hat’s executive vice president and chief marketing officer (CMO) will retire in 2022. We’ve had the benefit of planning for Tim’s retirement for some time and using Red Hat’s succession planning process to identify and develop our next CMO. Long time Red Hat marketing communications and brand leader Leigh Day has been promoted to senior vice president (SVP) of Marketing and in January, she will assume the role of CMO.

Red Hat Is Hiring Another Linux Developer To Work On GPU Hardware Enablement

Phoronix - Wed, 10/13/2021 - 06:36
Red Hat already employs numerous open-source graphics driver developers from DRM subsystem maintainer David Airlie to numerous others on his team working on areas from Mesa OpenCL support to Heterogeneous Memory Management to other user and kernel-space improvements for open-source Linux graphics. Red Hat has now put out a call to hire yet another experienced Linux GPU driver developer...

Intel Contributes AVX-512 Optimizations To Numpy, Yields Massive Speedups

Phoronix - Wed, 10/13/2021 - 02:50
Intel has contributed AVX-512 optimizations to upstream Numpy. For those using Numpy as this leading Python library for numerical computing, newer Intel CPUs with AVX-512 capabilities can enjoy major speed-ups in the range of 14~32x faster...

GNOME's Platform Design Continues Evolving From Dark Mode To Toasts

Phoronix - Wed, 10/13/2021 - 02:35
GNOME developer Allan Day has provided an update on behalf of the GNOME design time around some of their recent platform design improvements and some of the changes they are talking about in the near future...

7.4M IOPS Achieved Per-Core With Newest Linux Patches

Phoronix - Wed, 10/13/2021 - 02:14
Linux block subsystem maintainer and lead IO_uring developer Jens Axboe had a goal of hitting 7M IOPS per-core performance this week. On Monday he managed to already hit 7.2M IOPS and today hit 7.4M IOPS with his latest work-in-progress kernel patches...

Portable Computing Language 1.8 Released For OpenCL On CPUs, Other Accelerators

Phoronix - Wed, 10/13/2021 - 01:31
PoCL is the open-source project implementing OpenCL for CPU-based execution as well as multi-device support by getting its Portable Computing Language implementation working atop NVIDIA GPUs via CUDA, AMD GPUs via HSA, and other back-ends by way of LLVM. PoCL 1.8 is out today as the newest feature release...

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