Open-source News

Experiment on your code freely with Git worktree

opensource.com - Tue, 04/06/2021 - 15:02

Git is designed in part to enable experimentation. Once you know that your work is safely being tracked and safe states exist for you to fall back upon if something goes horribly wrong, you're not afraid to try new ideas. Part of the price of innovation, though, is that you're likely to make a mess along the way. Files get renamed, moved, removed, changed, and cut into pieces. New files are introduced. Temporary files that you don't intend to track take up residence in your working directory.


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Teach anyone how to code with Hedy

opensource.com - Tue, 04/06/2021 - 15:01

Learning to code involves learning both the programming logic and the syntax of a specific programming language. When I took my first programming class in college, the language taught was C++. The first code example, the basic "Hello World" program, looked like the example below.


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Use Apache Superset for open source business intelligence reporting

opensource.com - Tue, 04/06/2021 - 15:00

They say software is eating the world, but it's equally clear that open source is taking over software.

Simply put, open source is a superior approach for building and distributing software because it provides important guarantees around how software can be discovered, tried, operated, collaborated on, and packaged. For those reasons, it is not surprising that it has taken over most of the modern data stack: Infrastructure, databases, orchestration, data processing, AI/ML, and beyond.


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Announcing Red Hat regional leadership appointments

Red Hat News - Tue, 04/06/2021 - 12:00

Earlier this year we announced changes to our global sales leadership, and as Larry Stack takes on the role of executive vice president of Global Sales and Services, we’re excited to announce changes to our regional leadership team.

Linux Finally Has A Tool For Encryption Setup With Older Logitech Wireless Keyboards

Phoronix - Tue, 04/06/2021 - 12:00
For older Logitech keyboards that operate on a 27MHz radio frequency they may have a new lease on life as well as being more secure thanks to a new Linux utility...

VirtIO-GPU Vulkan Driver Looks To Go Upstream In Mesa

Phoronix - Tue, 04/06/2021 - 01:46
The VirtIO-GPU Vulkan driver is looking to be upstreamed in Mesa in allowing Vulkan support for virtualized guests that in turn is handled by the host's Vulkan driver/hardware...

AMD Instinct MI100 "Arcturus" Bits Added To Linux-Firmware.Git

Phoronix - Tue, 04/06/2021 - 01:00
While AMD's open-source Linux graphics driver developers have been working publicly on the "Acturus" GPU support going back to 2019 that was then introduced last year in the form of the Instinct MI100, finally today has the necessary binary firmware been upstreamed into linux-firmware.git for enabling the rest of the open-source AMD Linux driver stack...

Two Decade Old RTS Game Rolls Out v4.0 Update With Vulkan Renderer

Phoronix - Tue, 04/06/2021 - 00:18
Warzone 2100, the real-time strategy/tactics game that was originally released in 1999 as a proprietary commercial game only to then be made open-source several years later, is out this week with its version 4.0 milestone...

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