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Open source software is everywhere these days—which is great—but how can you be sure that you should trust the software you've downloaded to do what you want? The area of software supply chain management—of which this discussion forms a part—is fairly newly visible in the industry but is growing in importance. I'm going to consider a particular example.

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JavaScript is a popular programming language that started out as a single-threaded, synchronous language, meaning that one step runs after another step without waiting to fetch any external resources or perform any lengthy calculation or process. If the script requires such a resource or calculation, this synchronous behavior results in an error. This blocks all other processes in the queue from running whether or not they were dependent on the step that produced the error.

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With Intel Gen12 Xe-LP / Tiger Lake supporting AV1 accelerated decoding, Intel has provided this support via their open-source media stack on Linux that is then exposed via the Video Acceleration API (VA-API). Intel has now landed their patches for supporting VA-API AV1 decode with FFmpeg...

BpyTOP is another Linux command-line utility for resource monitoring among many other utilities like a top, Htop, Bashtop, etc. bashtop users can expect similar features in bpytop since bpytop is ported from bashtop and

The post BpyTop - Resource Monitoring Tool for Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

In addition to OpenIndiana Hipster 2020.10 having just been released, OmniOS v11 r151036 as another operating system long ago derived from OpenSolaris is also out with a big new release...

With the increasing demand in the marketplace for open source technologies, ensuring that the workforce is adequately skilled to meet these demands head-on is a top priority for CIOs. Large organizations are facing a crucial skills gap, which can disrupt delivery capabilities and lead to client dissatisfaction.

Microsoft Edge Dev Build 88.0.685.3 adds support for pre-rendered new tab pages on Linux and more; Changelog  WinCentral

Microsoft Edge Dev Build 88.0.685.3 adds support for pre-rendered new tab pages on Linux and more; Changelog  WinCentral

Emmabuntüs DE3 1.03 Released: An All-In-One GNU/Linux Distribution  Fossbytes

Linux-driven 4K camera SoC targets the low-power AI edge  LinuxGizmos.com

The trek to OpenZFS 2.0 continues with the fifth release candidate now being outed...

HBO Max quietly restored service to Linux users  Ars Technica

With Mesa 20.3 that should be released as stable in December there is working Arm Bifrost graphics support for the open-source Panfrost Gallium3D while looking past that this Arm Mali driver is going to be focusing on better performance and desktop OpenGL 3.1 support...

Microsoft Edge Dev build 88.0.685.3 has minor new features for Linux and macOS  Neowin

How to install PrestaShop on Ubuntu 20.04 Server - Linux Shout  H2S Media

Linux Mint developers foolishly waste resources on IPTV player called 'Hypnotix'  BetaNews

Cincoze is a brand we previously haven't tested at Phoronix but is a Chinese manufacturer of embedded computers. The company's recently introduced GM-1000 is advertised as a "Machine Vision Embedded Computer" geared for a variety of industrial applications in being constructed within a well engineered aluminum enclosure that is fan-less thanks to an array of heatpipes and chassis serving as a heatsink while offering MXM-based GPU expansion and a total system power budget of up to 360 Watts.

Linbit builds Kubernetes on-ramp for WD OpenFlex – Blocks and Files  Blocks and Files

Given Intel's very fresh Tiger Lake platform, our latest benchmarking with the Core i7-1165G7 within the Dell XPS 9310 is seeing if running the in-development Linux 5.10 kernel means any performance or power changes for this latest-generation Intel mobile CPU with Xe/Gen12 graphics...

While Qt 6.0 is aiming to ship in December there are many open bugs against the Qt code-base. Given the increasing number of P1 priority bug reports that are the highest besides the "P0" build breakage bug reports, developers are discussing what to do with these bugs and the merits of their current priority classifications...