Open-source News

A little update from Stack Overflow

opensource.com - Fri, 12/04/2020 - 16:01

When I saw Stack Overflow Chief Product Officer (CPO) Teresa Dietrich on the list of speakers at the All Things Open conference this year, I jumped at the chance to get an update.

We all know the value of Stack Overflow: the information that's been created there over the past twelve years is nothing short of vital for programmers, developers, and other technologists. Just the other day one of our contributors shared how critical it was to his process for starting to learn a new programming language quickly.


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Setting a standard for digital public goods

opensource.com - Fri, 12/04/2020 - 16:00

In June 2020, the Secretary-General of the United Nations published a "Roadmap for Digital Cooperation." In this report, he expanded on recommendations made a year before, calling on all actors, including the Member States, the United Nations system, the private sector, and others, to promote digital public goods. He says to realize the benefits of increased internet connectivity, open source projects in the form of digital public goods must be at the center.


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How to Install CDH and Configure Service Placements on CentOS/RHEL 7 – Part 4

Tecmint - Fri, 12/04/2020 - 15:27

In an earlier article, we have explained the installation of Cloudera Manager, in this article, you will learn how to install and configure CDH (Cloudera Distribution Hadoop) in RHEL/CentOS 7. While installing the CDH

The post How to Install CDH and Configure Service Placements on CentOS/RHEL 7 - Part 4 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Linux 5.11 Adding An "Inhibited" Feature To Temporarily Disregard Select Input Devices

Phoronix - Fri, 12/04/2020 - 13:06
The Linux kernel's input subsystem is gaining a new "inhibited" property feature as a policy to temporarily block input from given devices, including not using any event from them as a possible wake-up source...

System76 Bringing Out "Pangolin" As An AMD Renoir Linux Laptop

Phoronix - Fri, 12/04/2020 - 05:24
Ever since AMD has been on a stellar trajectory with their hardware, users have been begging System76 to release an AMD Linux laptop... That's now finally coming with their upcoming Pangolin launch...

Mesa 20.3 Released With Big Improvements For Open-Source Graphics Drivers

Phoronix - Fri, 12/04/2020 - 02:51
Mesa 20.3 has been released as the Q4'2020 open-source graphics driver update, primarily around providing OpenGL and Vulkan support on the likes of Intel and AMD Radeon graphics along with the reverse-engineered Nouveau support, many smaller drivers especially in the embedded space, and the growing list of CPU-based implementations and other translation efforts...

AMD Sends Out Zen 3 Compiler Support For GCC + AOCC 2.3 Compiler Released

Phoronix - Fri, 12/04/2020 - 02:36
Following last month's release of the Ryzen 5000 "Zen 3" processors, AMD has now begun publishing their official compiler support for this extremely compelling processor family...

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