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"Apps For GNOME" Launches To Highlight GNOME Apps

Phoronix - Thu, 08/26/2021 - 18:30
The GNOME project has launched "Apps For GNOME" at apps.gnome.org for highlighting the ecosystem of available GNOME applications...

Qt Creator 5.0 Released With Experimental Clangd Backend, Experimental Docker Builds

Phoronix - Thu, 08/26/2021 - 18:11
The Qt Company has formally released Qt Creator 5.0 today as their latest version of this Qt/C++ minded integrated development environment...

Google Working On Making VirtIO-GPU More Extensible

Phoronix - Thu, 08/26/2021 - 17:47
Google Chrome OS engineers are working on making Linux's VirtIO-GPU driver more extensible. The VirtIO-GPU driver has been modeled around the Virgl protocol for handling 3D within guest virtual machines but with a new context type addition they aim to support additional protocols...

30 things you didn't know about the Linux kernel

opensource.com - Thu, 08/26/2021 - 15:03

The Linux kernel is turning 30 this year. That's three decades of pioneering open source software, enabling users to run free software, to learn from the applications they're running, and to share what they've learned with friends. It's argued that without the Linux kernel, the luxuries of open culture and free software we enjoy today may not have surfaced when they have. It's highly improbable that the parts of Apple and Microsoft and Google that are open would be open at all without Linux as the catalyst.


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Know your organization's rule makers and rule breakers

opensource.com - Thu, 08/26/2021 - 15:00

In the first part of my review of Michele J. Gelfand's book, Rule Makers, Rule Breakers, I explained the author's argument about the ways social norms impact organizational cultures. In this part, I'll explore more deeply the ways understanding social norms can help leaders build open organizations.


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How open source software shapes AI policy, open source comes to medical datasets, and more

opensource.com - Thu, 08/26/2021 - 15:00

Open source made it into a lot of news headlines last month. Read on to learn about some of the major advances.


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