Open-source News

The OpenStack community is BIG. From Argentina to Morocco to Israel to Vietnam, we literally span the globe, so it's not surprising that we largely knew what to do to accommodate COVID-19's circumstances. But it still has been a struggle to keep moving forward and adapt while still delivering Ussuri and Victoria, the 21st and 22nd releases of OpenStack.

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In the first three parts of this series, I explored open source as a supply chain, what a product is, and what product managers do. In this fourth article, I'll look at a plethora of methods to differentiate open source software products from their upstream open source projects.

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Adopting DevOps can help an organization transform and speed how its software is delivered, tested, and deployed to production. This is the well-known "DevOps promise" that has led to such a large surge in adoption.

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Sony PlayStation 5 DualSense Controller Driver Coming To Linux 5.12  Phoronix

For as rough of a year as 2020 was, one of the many open-source accomplishments was Sony taking up "official" maintenance of their HID driver and ahead of Christmas to much surprise they published an official PlayStation 5 DualSense open-source controller driver for Linux. That PS5 controller driver is now set to be introduced with the imminent Linux 5.12 merge window...

Among Intel's many open-source software accomplishments for 2020 was introducing OSPray Studio as part of oneAPI. OSPray Studio builds atop the existing OSPray ray-tracing engine and inter-connected oneAPI Rendering Toolkit components to offer an open-source scene graph application for interactive visualizations and ray-tracing based rendering. The newest OSPray Studio is now available...

Global and China Linux Software Market 2026: Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, IBM, Oracle, Novell, etc. – NeighborWebSJ  NeighborWebSJ

This app brings Google Assistant to your Windows, macOS, or Linux PC  XDA Developers

Bypassing Deep Packet Inspection: Tunneling Traffic Over TLS VPN  Linux Journal

Top 3 Command Line Ubuntu Package Manager tools - Linux Shout  H2S Media

Daily Deal: The Complete 2021 Learn Linux Bundle  Techdirt

The Origin of Linux and Reasons to use Linux  Technotification

Linux Fu: Serial Untethered  Hackaday

Dev boards showcase Rockchip's new RK3568 and RK3566  LinuxGizmos.com

Dev boards showcase Rockchip's new RK3568 and RK3566  LinuxGizmos.com

It was just yesterday we were talking about Zink achieving OpenGL 4.3 support and wondering if OpenGL 4.4 or potentially even 4.5 could be buttoned up in time for Mesa 21.1... Well, as of a few minutes ago Zink now is advertising OpenGL 4.5 support for this graphics API layer built atop Vulkan...

Two Year Ubuntu Linux Performance Comparison For Intel Xeon "Cascade Lake"  Phoronix

With this spring marking two years already since Intel introduced the 2nd Gen Xeon Scalable "Cascade Lake" processors plus with Ice Lake Xeon processors being on the horizon, here is a look at how the flagship Xeon Platinum 8280 2P performance has evolved atop open-source Linux during that duration. The benchmarks today are looking at the performance of Ubuntu 19.04 for that of roughly the shape the Linux performance/optimizations were at launch and then the performance today if moving to the in-development Ubuntu 21.04 and also shifting to the latest Linux 5.11 kernel and GCC 11 code compiler.

How to install a LAMP stack on Oracle Linux  TechRepublic

CuBox-M: A tiny mini-PC that supports machine learning, natural language processing, Android and Linux  Notebookcheck.net