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Qt 6.1, Qt 6.2 Expected To Come Sooner With Tightened Release Cycles

Phoronix - Fri, 11/27/2020 - 21:02
Qt 6.0 is releasing in December and The Qt Company is already drafting plans for the release cycles of Qt 6.1 and Qt 6.2 LTS next year...

Arm Neoverse N2 Support Added To The LLVM Clang 12 Compiler

Phoronix - Fri, 11/27/2020 - 19:35
In September Arm began adding Neoverse N2 support to the open-source compilers initially with GCC and now the support has been merged into LLVM Clang 12 as well...

Following FUSE & CUSE, Now There Is "MUSE" For MTD In Userspace

Phoronix - Fri, 11/27/2020 - 17:24
FUSE is well known to longtime Linux users for allowing file-systems to be implemented in user-space for where a Linux kernel port isn't feasible for portability or licensing restrictions, among other factors. There is also CUSE for character devices in user-space. Now being based on FUSE, there is "MUSE" being worked on for MTD in user-space...

Phoronix 2020 Black Friday Reminders

Phoronix - Fri, 11/27/2020 - 16:30
Just some quick, friendly holiday reminders...

How to choose a wireless protocol for home automation

opensource.com - Fri, 11/27/2020 - 16:02

In the second article in this series, I talked about local control vs. cloud connectivity and some things to consider for your home automation setup.

In this third article, I will discuss the underlying technology for connecting devices to Home Assistant, including the dominant protocols that smart devices use to communicate and some things to think about before purchasing smart devices.


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Comparing the similarities and differences between inner source and open source

opensource.com - Fri, 11/27/2020 - 16:01

Open source software (OSS) has been around since the 1990s and has thrived, quickly growing to become mainstream. It is now more well understood around the world than it has ever been before. Some refer to it as FOSS to highlight the Freedom part of open source (Free and Open Source Software). And in 2014, at OSCON, the term "inner source" was debuted, and people started talking about how to use the principles of open source, but inside of a company. It raised several questions for those unfamiliar with the term, which I hope to answer with this article.


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4 questions about AI ethics and how open source can help

opensource.com - Fri, 11/27/2020 - 16:00

As a high school student, I've become very interested in artificial intelligence (AI), which is emerging as one of the most impactful innovations of recent times. This past summer, I was selected for the AI4ALL program, where we learned how to develop AI systems using Python.


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Lenovo ThinkPad Palm Sensor Support Coming To Linux 5.11

Phoronix - Fri, 11/27/2020 - 13:07
As part of Lenovo offering Linux pre-loaded on more laptops and desktops, they have been working on upstream improvements themselves along with their partners at Red Hat and others. One of the latest Lenovo-contributed improvements to the kernel is palm sensor support for newer ThinkPad notebooks...

How to Install and Use Flatpak on Linux

Tecmint - Fri, 11/27/2020 - 10:32

In Linux, there are many avenues for installing a software package. You can use the package managers such as APT for Debian-based distributions and YUM for RHEL-based distributions. If the packages are not available

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