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Take the first global open source maintainer survey

opensource.com - Tue, 03/09/2021 - 16:00

Nadia Eghbal's 2016 Ford Foundation report on open source software infrastructure shed light on the problem of public code being built and maintained in large part by unpaid volunteers. Since then, the industry has been eager to understand how and why maintainers do this and what we can collectively do to support them better.


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Different Ways to Use Column Command in Linux

Tecmint - Tue, 03/09/2021 - 14:14
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Have you ever been in a situation to work with CSV files and produce output in structured tabular format? Recently I was working with data cleansing on a file that is not in a

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Intel Contributes New "KCPUID" Utility For Linux To Reliably Report CPU Features

Phoronix - Tue, 03/09/2021 - 13:00
Intel engineers have been working on a tool called kcpuid for showing the raw CPU features/capabilities of a processor under Linux. This utility will be part of the kernel source tree and is queued up now in tip's x86/misc branch, thereby making it material for Linux 5.13 barring any issues coming up...

LLVM Clang Mainlines Support For The Motorola 68000 Series (m68k)

Phoronix - Tue, 03/09/2021 - 05:55
If it wasn't odd enough during these pandemic times seeing Nintendo 64 support upstreamed into the Linux 5.12 kernel a few weeks back, the latest vintage hardware seeing open-source support still going on is the Motorola 68000 series 32-bit processors. LLVM/Clang today merged the "m68k" target for these three decade old processors...

Intel Already Started Working On Linux Driver Code For Lunar Lake

Phoronix - Tue, 03/09/2021 - 03:36
While Intel 11th Gen Rocket Lake desktop processors are launching this month, Intel's open-source Linux driver developers known for their punctual support are already preparing early code around their 14th Gen "Lunar Lake" platform...

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