Open-source News

With more kids learning from home this year, it's important to engage them with unique learning opportunities. The classroom looks very different than it did before, and it's going to continue to evolve. So should the lessons we teach.

In the first article in this series, I shared how my students taught me to code. Over the next few weeks, I will be exploring how educators and parents can harness the power of coding to teach kids a wide variety of skills.

read more

Before getting down to the actual writing part of documenting another one of your open source projects, and even before interviewing the experts, it's a good idea to answer some high-level questions about your new document.

Renowned communication theorist Harold Lasswell wrote in his 1948 article, The Structure and Function of Communication in Society:

[A] convenient way to describe an act of communication is to answer the following questions:

read more

Puppy Linux 9.5 “FossaPup” Is Here to Revive Your Old PC, Based on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS  LXer

Linux and open source is the future and there is no doubt about that, and to see this come to a reality, a strong foundation has to be lied, by starting from the lowest

The post 7 Amazing Linux Distributions For Kids first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

After missing the preferred target date of 15 September and the secondary beta target date of this week, Fedora 33 Beta is now on track to ship next week...

Fedora 33 Beta To Be Released Next Week  Phoronix

Linux Software Market 2020 Extensive Analysis by Regional Outlook, Competition Landscape, Company Profiles – Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Samsung, Oracle, RedHat, Facebook, DELL, Novell, IBM, Amazon  Daily Research Photographer

Intel continues bringing up the DG1 discrete graphics card under Linux with continued refinements set to hit for Linux 5.10...

JDK 16: What’s coming in Java 16  InfoWorld

Geppetto carrier design service licensed by Toradex for Arm Linux modules  LinuxGizmos.com

It turns out AMD is at least exploring the possibilities around using the Rust programming language in their graphics driver tooling...

AMD Is Hiring To Work On New Radeon Driver Tooling Written In Rust  Phoronix

How open-source software transformed the business world  ZDNet

Microsoft Edge Dev channel adds dark theme to sidebar search  Windows Central

Linux Administration Cookbook (normally $35.99) - free download  Neowin

Linux Administration Cookbook (normally $35.99) - free download  Neowin

AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT CPUFreq Governor Comparison With Linux 5.9  Phoronix

One of the most frequent questions received at Phoronix in recent times is whether the "schedutil" governor is ready for widespread use and if it can compare in performance to, well, the "performance" governor on AMD Linux systems. Here are some benchmarks of an AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT using the latest Linux 5.9 development kernel in looking at the performance differences between the CPUFreq governor options of Ondemand, Powersave, Performance, and Schedutil.

The kernel support for Nitro Enclaves landed this week in char-misc-next ahead of the Linux 5.10 cycle kicking off next month...

Linux 5.10 To Support Nitro Enclaves For Security-Critical Applications  Phoronix