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Open organizations through the ages

opensource.com - Sun, 08/23/2020 - 15:00

Consider the evolution of humankind. When we do, we will recognize that having global discussions and acting on global decisions is a relatively new phenomenon—only 100 years old, give or take a few years. We're still learning how to make global decisions and execute on them successfully.

Yet our ability to improve those globally focused practices and skills is critical to our continued survival. And open principles will be the keys to helping us learn them—as they have been throughout history.


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Micron's HSE Open-Source Storage Engine 1.8 Released

Phoronix - Sun, 08/23/2020 - 12:45
Back in April the folks at Micron announced the "HSE" open-source storage engine optimized for SSDs and persistent memory. Version 1.8 of HSE was released on Friday as the first major update since going public earlier this year...

Mozilla's Incredible Speech-To-Text Engine Is At Risk Following Layoffs

Phoronix - Sun, 08/23/2020 - 08:37
For a while now a Mozilla software project that's been an "unsung hero" has been DeepSpeech as their speech-to-text engine. Sadly, following the recent major layoffs at Mozilla and restructuring along with a shift to focusing more on their profitable activities, DeepSpeech for now has an uncertain future...

Drovorub - Hackaday

Google News - Sun, 08/23/2020 - 07:09
Drovorub  Hackaday

Linux 5.10 To Bring Rework To Raspberry Pi 4 USB Firmware Initialization

Phoronix - Sun, 08/23/2020 - 04:28
One of the early changes queued in the USB area for the Linux 5.10 cycle later this summer is a "reset-raspberrypi" driver set for introduction as another upstream improvement for the current-generation Raspberry Pi 4 single board computer...

Unity Is The Latest Company To Join Blender's Development Fund

Phoronix - Sun, 08/23/2020 - 00:18
Unity Tech is the latest high profile company joining the Blender Development Fund for assisting this leading open-source 3D modeling software...

OpenZFS File-System Merges Support For Using Zstd Compression

Phoronix - Sat, 08/22/2020 - 21:28
Adding to the list of software projects embracing Zstd for its very efficient compression abilities, OpenZFS is now supporting the Facebook-developed Zstandard as its latest file-system compression support...

Linux 5.10 To Bring SLDT/STR Emulation To Help Some Windows Games On Wine

Phoronix - Sat, 08/22/2020 - 19:22
Last year Wine itself added emulation for some CPU instructions now blocked by UMIP, the User-Mode Instruction Prevention functionality found in the latest Intel and AMD processors. Now slated for Linux 5.10 is the emulation/spoofing of two of those instructions by the kernel as another attempt to help a small number of Windows programs relying on those instructions...

KDE Apps Now Remember Their Window Positions When Closed & Re-Launched

Phoronix - Sat, 08/22/2020 - 18:42
KDE applications finally have the ability to keeping their window positions preserved when closed and then re-launched...

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