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How an open community rebrands

opensource.com - Sun, 08/09/2020 - 15:00

As an open community evolves, so does the way it expresses its identity to others. And having open conversations about how you'd like your community to be recognized is an important component of community engagement.

Simply put, your community's brand is what people (especially potential contributors) see first when they encounter you. So you want to make sure your brand reflects your community—its values, its principles, and its spirit.


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Several Drivers Promoted Out Of Staging With Linux 5.9

Phoronix - Sun, 08/09/2020 - 12:01
The "staging" area of the kernel, where new drivers and other code live that has yet to prove itself or live up to kernel code quality standards, saw a few drivers graduate into Linux mainline proper for the current 5.9 cycle...

LLVM Clang 11 Has A Nice Build Speed Improvement With New Feature For Pre-Compiled Headers

Phoronix - Sun, 08/09/2020 - 08:44
There are many improvements in LLVM/Clang 11.0 due out in the weeks ahead though an interesting change merged prior to last month's code branching that slipped under our radar... If using the clang-cl driver for MSVC or when otherwise making use of pre-compiled headers (PCH) functionality, there is a new option that can offer significant build time speed-ups...

Intel Cloud-Hypervisor 0.9 Brings io_uring Block Device Support For Faster Performance

Phoronix - Sun, 08/09/2020 - 03:27
Intel's Cloud Hypervisor focused on being a Rustlang-based hypervisor focused for cloud workloads is closing in on the 1.0 milestone. With this week's release of Cloud-Hypervisor 0.9 there is one very exciting feature in particular but also a lot of other interesting changes...

Kodi 19 Alpha 1 Released With AV1 Decoding, Many Other HTPC Improvements

Phoronix - Sat, 08/08/2020 - 22:58
Kodi 19 "Matrix" Alpha 1 has been released for this very popular, cross-platform open-source HTPC software...

Linux 5.9 Supports A Lot Of New Audio Hardware, Intel Silent Stream Added

Phoronix - Sat, 08/08/2020 - 21:39
The Linux kernel continues supporting a lot more audio devices and much more punctual than a decade or two ago...

Mesa To Join Other Open-Source Projects With "Main" For Primary Code Branch

Phoronix - Sat, 08/08/2020 - 21:04
This week Mesa developers began drafting plans for transitioning their primary Git branch to "main", following the naming plans of other open-source projects using Git...

Linux 5.9 Networking Changes Are As Active As Ever

Phoronix - Sat, 08/08/2020 - 20:40
Each kernel cycle the networking subsystem sees a lot of churn given the importance of network interconnect performance and reliability especially in high performance computing environments where Linux dominates...

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