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13 open source tools for developers

opensource.com - Mon, 06/14/2021 - 15:02

Modern developers are highly technical, opinionated, passionate, community-focused, driven, polyglot, and most importantly, empowered decision-makers. Today, developers have a say in the products being built and the tools and technologies used to build them. Most importantly, time is precious, and developers and project managers can always benefit from great efficiency. To attain great efficiency, though, you must understand the software lifecycle, and how it can be organized and manipulated.


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What is a CI/CD pipeline?

opensource.com - Mon, 06/14/2021 - 15:01

A continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline is an anchor for every DevOps initiative. The CI/CD pipeline breaks down traditional silos and enables development and operations teams to collaborate throughout the entire software development lifecycle.

Better yet, moving to DevOps and a CI/CD pipeline can help your organization deliver software more securely at a higher velocity.


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Install FreeDOS without the installer

opensource.com - Mon, 06/14/2021 - 15:00

Most people should be able to install FreeDOS 1.3 RC4 very easily using the installer. The FreeDOS installer asks a few questions, then takes care of the rest—including making space for FreeDOS and making the system bootable.


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Best CentOS Alternative Distributions (Desktop and Server)

Tecmint - Mon, 06/14/2021 - 13:37
The post Best CentOS Alternative Distributions (Desktop and Server) first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

On 31st December 2021, the CentOS project makes the shift to CentOS Stream – a rolling release that will serve as the upstream version for future releases of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Sadly,

The post Best CentOS Alternative Distributions (Desktop and Server) first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Intel Gallium3D Driver Merged Into Mesa 21.2 For Gen4 Through Haswell Graphics

Phoronix - Mon, 06/14/2021 - 08:18
The independently-developed "Crocus" driver providing a Mesa Gallium3D implementation for Intel Gen4 "i965" through Gen7 "Haswell" graphics has now been merged into Mesa 21.2 for ultimately aiming to improve the open-source OpenGL support for these aging Intel integrated graphics generations...

Linux 5.13-rc6 Released With The Kernel Cycle Smoothing Out

Phoronix - Mon, 06/14/2021 - 06:48
After several weeks worth of 5.13-rc releases where there were more changes than Linus Torvalds would like to see, Linux 5.13-rc6 is out now and it's on the smaller side while panning out nicely for this later stage of kernel development...

KWinFT Going Through Code Refactoring, Working On WLROOTS-Based Usage

Phoronix - Mon, 06/14/2021 - 01:30
Announced last year was KWinFT as a fork of KDE's KWin to focus on improving the Wayland support more rapidly and incorporating other modern technologies. KWinFT has been making progress on advancing its code-base while in recent months it was seemingly more quiet. However, it turns out KWinFT is alive and well and has been going through some code refactoring while preparing for the next wave of feature work...

Linux 5.14 To Begin Enabling The Intel Graphics TTM Memory Management Bits for dGPUs

Phoronix - Sun, 06/13/2021 - 19:07
While a decade ago Intel's open-source Linux graphics driver engineers resisted TTM at the time and instead devised the Graphics Execution Manager (GEM) for kernel graphics memory management needs in its place, now with discrete graphics cards and dedicated video memory, Intel has been working on making use of TTM memory management for those purposes. With Linux 5.14 the initial bits are going to be there for using TTM by the Intel driver when running with discrete graphics having local memory...

Last Year's L-Shaped Desk Build Has Been Holding Up Well

Phoronix - Sun, 06/13/2021 - 18:17
As a quick follow-up to last year's L-shaped desk build for accommodating plenty of displays, laptops, and more, it's still working out very well...

Wasmtime 0.28 Released With C++ Embedding Support

Phoronix - Sun, 06/13/2021 - 17:51
In addition to the recent WebAssembly project releases of Wasmer 2.0-rc and WASM3 v0.5, the Bytecode Alliance that is made up of Intel and Mozilla and other organizations has announced Wasmtime 0.28...

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