Open-source News

New Linux integrity checker from Microsoft, Raspberry Pi smart TV replacement from KDE, and more open source news

opensource.com - Sat, 04/11/2020 - 15:07

In this edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at GNOME Foundation's new contributor program, a new Linux integrity checker from Microsoft, a free software alternative to smart TVs, and more!


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5 open source activities while you work from home

opensource.com - Sat, 04/11/2020 - 15:00

The mythos of the remote home office or the exciting archetype of the digital nomad are as appealing as they are dangerous. It's great to be able to avoid a commute, to be able to stay comfortable at home while getting lots of work done, and to be master of your own schedule. But along with those liberties, you inherit the responsibility of remembering to be a normal, functioning human being. Believe it or not, the two aren't mutually exclusive. You can do both, but you have to work at it. Here are some ideas on how.

Plant something


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Git 2.26's Faster Searches Thanks To Multi-Threaded Git-Grep

Phoronix - Sat, 04/11/2020 - 12:00
With the Git 2.26 release at the end of March one of the performance wins comes in the way of Git's grep functionality now being multi-threaded...

Intel Xeon Gold 5220R + Xeon Gold 6226R Linux Performance

Phoronix - Sat, 04/11/2020 - 05:00
At the end of February Intel launched the Xeon Scalable "Cascade Lake Refresh" processors with a number of more aggressively priced SKUs with different core counts and clock speeds compared to the original Cascade Lake CPUs launched last year. Intel recently sent over the Xeon Gold 5220R and Xeon Gold 6226R processors and we've begun our Linux benchmarks of them. In this article is our initial look at their performance using a near-final build of Ubuntu 20.04 and seeing how the performance stacks up in raw performance and performance-per-dollar against the AMD EPYC competition.

Unigine Community Edition Offers Engine For Free To Non-Commercial/Academic Projects

Phoronix - Sat, 04/11/2020 - 03:38
Unigine Corp has announced a new "Community" edition of their visually stunning, cross-platform game/simulation engine that will be available to non-commercial projects and academic entities...

Wine 5.6 Continues Media Foundation Enablement

Phoronix - Sat, 04/11/2020 - 03:27
Wine 5.6 is out as the latest bi-weekly snapshot of this program for running Windows applications and games under Linux...

Systemd-OOMD Continues Coming Together For Better Linux Out-Of-Memory Handling

Phoronix - Fri, 04/10/2020 - 20:49
Beyond the new systemd-homed functionality, another improvement to look forward to in the systemd space this calendar year is systemd-oomd materializing as its new out-of-memory daemon...

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