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Sustainable economic development begins with open thinking

opensource.com - Fri, 04/23/2021 - 15:00

To be successful, open organizations must have specific purposes, address achievable goals, perform clear tasks, effectively evaluate the results of their work, and introduce countermeasures or revisions to their operations. Open organization principles serve vital functions throughout this process.


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Chrome 91 Beta Brings Experimental WebTransport, WebAssembly SIMD By Default

Phoronix - Fri, 04/23/2021 - 08:35
Following last week's release of Chrome 90, Google on Thursday debuted their beta of next month's Chrome 91 web browser...

PipeWire 0.3.26 Released With Better Bluetooth Support, Up To 64 Channel Devices

Phoronix - Fri, 04/23/2021 - 06:29
Just ahead of the Fedora Workstation 34 release where it will be the first major Linux distribution using PipeWire as a modern alternative to PulseAudio and JACK, PipeWire 0.3.26 is now available as the newest big feature release for this audio/video stream server for the modern Linux desktop...

IBM Clarifies Stance On Developers Working On Open-Source Projects In Off-Hours

Phoronix - Fri, 04/23/2021 - 01:00
Earlier this week was a surprising Linux kernel networking commit that removed an IBM engineer as one of the driver maintainers for the IBM Power SR-IOV Virtual NIC driver. Seemingly at issue with this VNIC driver work was the developer using his personal email address in working on the driver in his off-hours. IBM has now clarified their stance on such work...

VKD3D-Proton 2.3 Released With Early DXR Support, Performance Improvements

Phoronix - Thu, 04/22/2021 - 23:45
VKD3D-Proton 2.3 is now available as the latest release of this Steam Play (Proton) component for running Direct3D 12 games over Vulkan...

Linux's P-State Performance Governor Shows Unexpectedly Big Boosts For The Intel Core i9-11900K

Phoronix - Thu, 04/22/2021 - 23:15
The P-State and CPUFreq "performance" governors on Linux with desktop Intel/AMD processors can be of help for gaming and other select workloads by tending to keep the CPU clock frequencies higher than the default ondemand (CPUFreq) or powersave (P-State) governors used by nearly all Linux distributions. But with Intel's new Core i9 11900K "Rocket Lake" is a dramatic difference in power and performance between the Intel P-State performance and powersave governors than what we have seen over the years with prior generations of Intel Core processors.

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