Open-source News

As part of my role as a principal communication strategist at an enterprise software company with an open source development model, I publish a regular update about open source community, market, and industry trends. Here are some of my and their favorite articles from that update.

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Universal USB Installer 1.9.9.4  Neowin

OpenCV as the widely-used, real-time computer vision library is out this week with version 4.5 as a big feature release...

A new kernel feature sent in today for the Linux 5.10 merge window is static calls, which can be helpful in cases where Retpolines (return trampolines) are currently used as part of protections against speculative execution vulnerabilities like Spectre...

We've made some recent updates to Opensource.com that impact account registration, user profiles, and how readers comment on articles. These new and modified processes should ensure a more secure and safe website and experience for you.

Over the last few weeks, we've been really busy updating and testing these new features. One is our new account creation process to reduce spam. We deployed these changes to our production environment earlier today.

Here is a more detailed account of all of the changes we've made.

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Gaming system raises ante with Tiger Lake CPU  LinuxGizmos.com

Linux Operating System Market is Anticipated to Attain 18.5% CAGR by 2023 | Linux Operating System Market Size, Growth, Key Players Analysis and Opportunities  Virtual-Strategy Magazine

Linux Operating System Market is Anticipated to Attain 18.5% CAGR by 2023 | Linux Operating System Market Size, Growth, Key Players Analysis and Opportunities - Press Release  Digital Journal

Ingo Molnar as usual is quite quick in submitting his changes for the new kernel merge window in the areas he oversees. With the scheduler changes for Linux 5.10 there are some changes worth mentioning...

MellowPlayer is a Desktop App for Various Streaming Music Services  It's FOSS

How to install ClipGrab on Ubuntu 20.04 LTs to download Youtube videos - Linux Shout  H2S Media

Linux Kernel 5.9 Released: Drops Support For Multiple Floppies  Fossbytes

The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% Of The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

On this first official day of breaking open Linux 5.10 for development with its merge window, quite a number of noteworthy Intel and AMD x86 processor changes have already been sent in for landing...

Within hours of Linus Torvalds releasing the Linux 5.9 kernel, the GNU folks maintaining the GNU Linux-libre downstream released their version of the kernel that prevents the loading of binary-only modules as well as the loading of binary-only firmware/microcode blobs...

GNU Linux-libre 5.9-gnu Released After The Usual Deblobbing  Phoronix

After being one and a half months late, LLVM 11.0 is now tagged and ready to ship...

One of the best outcomes of Ansible's move towards content collections is it spreads the thousands of modules in Ansible's "core" repository into many more independent repositories. This means movement on issues and modules that had long been delayed (often due to the sheer volume of issues and pull requests in the repo) can progress more rapidly.

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In a previous article, I explored how Ansible can integrate with Google Calendar for change management, but I didn't get into the details of the Ansible module that was built for this purpose. In this article, I will cover the nuts and bolts of it.

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I've been using Rust for a few months now, writing rather more of it than I expected—though quite a lot of that has been thrown away as I've learned, improved what I'm writing, and taken some more complex tasks beyond what I originally intended.

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