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Open-source consulting firm KDAB has released Hotspot 1.3 as their GUI utility for visualizing Linux perf reports...

KDAB Releases Hotspot 1.3 For Visualizing Linux Perf Reports  Phoronix

Academic Study Says Open Source Has Peaked: But Why?  Techdirt

FrostWire (formerly known as Gnutella) is a free and open-source BitTorrent client and a fork of LimeWire. It was originally very similar to LimeWire in appearance and performance, but later developers added more rich

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Bottlerocket: An Open Source Container Linux Distribution Now Available  Fossbytes

Of all the Linux commands out there (and there are many), the three most quintessential seem to be sed, awk, and grep. Maybe it's the arcane sound of their names, or the breadth of their potential use, or just their age, but when someone's giving an example of a "Linuxy" command, it's usually one of those three.

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Why do open source projects fail?

Lack of funding is a major factor, of course, but it's far from the only reason that open source projects fail to achieve sustainability. Sometimes there's a lack of understanding of how to create a product for a broad market, or some fundamental misstep with intellectual property rights (IPR)—such as failing to properly license your code.

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In this short article, we will explain how to solve the: “module_stderr“: “Shared connection to x.x.x.x closed.\r\n”, “module_stdout”: “/bin/sh: /usr/bin/python: No such file or directory\r\n”, while running Ansible commands. The following screenshot shows the

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Linux Software Market: Global Forecast over 2020 – 2025  News by aeresearch

One of the most interesting projects out of Google Summer of Code 2020 has been the ongoing work for allowing individual code files to be compiled in parallel, building off work last year in addressing GCC parallelization bottlenecks. The final report for GSoC 2020 on this work has been issued...

IAR Build Tools for Linux improves integration from development to building and testing  New Electronics

In addition to Intel talking a lot today in virtual briefings about the new 11th Gen "Tiger Lake" mobile processors, they were also talking at a higher level extensively on their second-generation "Project Athena" laptop innovation program and their new Intel Evo branding for premium laptops...

You Probably Won't See Intel Evo "Project Athena" Linux Laptops In The Near Term  Phoronix

After a small dip in July, how did the Steam on Linux gaming marketshare end out for August prior to many gamers returning to school and others still being isolated at home? A small uptick but still under the 1% threshold...

Steam On Linux Is Ending Summer 2020 At Just Under 0.9% Marketshare  Phoronix

Global Linux-based Set Top Box Market Research (2015-2026): In-depth Assessment of the Growth and other Aspects  Exchange 99

While Mesa 20.2 will hopefully be out next week, Mesa 20.1.7 is out today as the newest stable release for this collection of open-source Linux graphics drivers...

First Arch Linux ISO Powered by Linux Kernel 5.8 Is Now Available for Download  LXer

NVIDIA software engineer Zi Yan who specializes in the Linux kernel memory management subsystem today sent out a set of patches proposing the addition of 1GB THP support for the Linux kernel...

Linux Foundation commits to addressing climate change with data and analytics  TechRepublic