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OBS Studio Merges Its EGL-Wayland Code To Natively Support Wayland

Phoronix - Fri, 02/12/2021 - 18:45
OBS Studio, the cross-platform open-source solution for live streaming and screen recording, has landed the last major piece of its effort to natively support Wayland...

4 reasons to choose Linux for art and design

opensource.com - Fri, 02/12/2021 - 16:02

In 2021, there are more reasons why people love Linux than ever before. In this series, I'll share 21 different reasons to use Linux. Today I'll explain why Linux is an excellent choice for creative work.


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How the OpenStack community is collaborating during the pandemic

opensource.com - Fri, 02/12/2021 - 16:01

The OpenStack community is BIG. From Argentina to Morocco to Israel to Vietnam, we literally span the globe, so it's not surprising that we largely knew what to do to accommodate COVID-19's circumstances. But it still has been a struggle to keep moving forward and adapt while still delivering Ussuri and Victoria, the 21st and 22nd releases of OpenStack.


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18 ways to differentiate open source products from upstream suppliers

opensource.com - Fri, 02/12/2021 - 16:00

In the first three parts of this series, I explored open source as a supply chain, what a product is, and what product managers do. In this fourth article, I'll look at a plethora of methods to differentiate open source software products from their upstream open source projects.


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How to adopt DevSecOps successfully

opensource.com - Fri, 02/12/2021 - 16:00

Adopting DevOps can help an organization transform and speed how its software is delivered, tested, and deployed to production. This is the well-known "DevOps promise" that has led to such a large surge in adoption.


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Sony PlayStation 5 DualSense Controller Driver Coming To Linux 5.12

Phoronix - Fri, 02/12/2021 - 14:00
For as rough of a year as 2020 was, one of the many open-source accomplishments was Sony taking up "official" maintenance of their HID driver and ahead of Christmas to much surprise they published an official PlayStation 5 DualSense open-source controller driver for Linux. That PS5 controller driver is now set to be introduced with the imminent Linux 5.12 merge window...

OSPRay Studio 0.6 Released For Intel's Open-Source Interactive Ray-Tracing Visualizer

Phoronix - Fri, 02/12/2021 - 13:00
Among Intel's many open-source software accomplishments for 2020 was introducing OSPray Studio as part of oneAPI. OSPray Studio builds atop the existing OSPray ray-tracing engine and inter-connected oneAPI Rendering Toolkit components to offer an open-source scene graph application for interactive visualizations and ray-tracing based rendering. The newest OSPray Studio is now available...

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