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Qt 6.0 Development Host/Target Changes Announced

Phoronix - Fri, 09/11/2020 - 19:13
The Qt Company announced their planned development hosts for Qt 6.0 around continuous integration and the platforms they intend to support for Qt 6.0, some that are no longer set to be supported, and other targets they plan to support later on in future Qt 6.x releases...

Intel oneAPI DPC++ Compiler 2020-09 Released

Phoronix - Fri, 09/11/2020 - 18:55
The latest Intel oneAPI software release is a new monthly update to their LLVM-based oneAPI Data Parallel C++ (DPC++) compiler...

Mark Shuttleworth Comments Following Ubuntu Community Friction, Uncertainty

Phoronix - Fri, 09/11/2020 - 18:29
For the past number of weeks there have been discussions ongoing about the "loss of leadership" within the Ubuntu community and as part of that the Ubuntu Community Team and Ubuntu Community Council having faded away in recent years. Following a lot of comments on the Ubuntu Discourse, Mark Shuttleworth has chimed in with his thoughts and work moving forward...

Poll: What do you think of the save icon?

opensource.com - Fri, 09/11/2020 - 15:02

Ok, I have just been doing some writing – something I do a lot of – and for some strange reason, I actually paid attention to the icon that stands for “Save.” It is – what?? – a diskette!! Why? How long has it been since diskettes were actually used? And how would the young people coming into computing even know what a diskette is?


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How open source legal teams can get to yes

opensource.com - Fri, 09/11/2020 - 15:01

As I shared in the first part of this two-part series, I am an open source lawyer for Red Hat. One important part of my job is to provide information to other companies, including their in-house counsel, about how Red Hat builds enterprise-class products with a completely open source development model and to answer their questions about open source licensing in general.


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Why the future of IoT depends on open source

opensource.com - Fri, 09/11/2020 - 15:00

Most people are familiar with the Internet of Things (IoT), which refers to smart objects in a connected network, as this diagram shows.


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