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Building a sensing prosthetic with the Raspberry Pi

opensource.com - Fri, 04/03/2020 - 15:00

Content advisory: this article contains frank discussions of breast cancer.

What's the first question you ask your surgeon when you're discussing reconstruction options after breast cancer?

"How many USB ports can you give me?" is probably not the one that comes to mind for many people!

Although the remark was said jokingly, it sparked a thread that would ultimately become SenseBreast—an early prototype of a sensing mastectomy prosthetic, based on open hardware.


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Plenty Of New Sound Hardware Support, Continued Sound Open Firmware Work For Linux 5.7

Phoronix - Fri, 04/03/2020 - 14:32
SUSE's Takashi Iwai who oversees the sound subsystem for the Linux kernel sent in his changes on Thursday that are ready for the 5.7 kernel...

Chrome, Skype, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, VSCode Now Unofficially Available For Clear Linux

Phoronix - Fri, 04/03/2020 - 12:00
One of the common criticisms for those trying to use Clear Linux on the desktop is that it lacks easy access to proprietary packages like Google Chrome and Steam. There has been plumbing within its swupd package/bundle management system to support third-party repositories to expand the ecosystem and now we're finally seeing that happen...

NetBSD 8.2 Released With Fix For Ryzen USB Issues, Fix For Booting Single Core CPUs

Phoronix - Fri, 04/03/2020 - 07:07
While NetBSD 9.0 has been out since mid-February, for those still on the NetBSD 8 series the NetBSD 8.2 milestone is now available with various fixes. As a result of the coronavirus, the NetBSD 7 series is also being extended...

Linux 5.7 Seeing Updates For Intel SpeedSelect Technology, Jasper Lake PMC

Phoronix - Fri, 04/03/2020 - 06:51
Andy Shevchenko submitted on Tuesday the x86 platform driver updates targeting the Linux 5.7 kernel merge window...

Ansible streaming video series, open source security tools, and more industry trends

opensource.com - Fri, 04/03/2020 - 01:45

As part of my role as a senior product marketing manager at an enterprise software company with an open source development model, I publish a regular update about open source community, market, and industry trends for product marketers, managers, and other influencers. Here are five of my and their favorite articles from that update.


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System76 Thelio Major Proves To Be A Major Player For Linux Workstations

Phoronix - Fri, 04/03/2020 - 01:20
For the past two months we have been testing the System76 Thelio Major and it's been working out extremely well with performance and reliability. The Thelio Major offering with options for Intel Core X-Series or AMD Ryzen Threadripper and resides between their standard Thelio desktop with Ryzen/Core CPUs and the Thelio Massive that sports dual Intel Xeon CPUs.

X-Plane 11.50 Flight Simulator Beta Released With Vulkan API Support

Phoronix - Fri, 04/03/2020 - 01:05
For years we have been looking forward to X-Plane with a new Vulkan renderer to replace its aging OpenGL renderer. Finally today the X-Plane 11.50 Beta has been made public for this realistic flight simulator that supports Metal on Apple platforms and Vulkan everywhere else...

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