Open-source News

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...

GNOME 3.36.1 Released With First Batch Of Fixes

Phoronix - Thu, 04/02/2020 - 23:35
Following last month's release of GNOME 3.36 with its many new features and performance improvements, GNOME 3.36.1 is out today with the first batch of updates/fixes to this H1'2020 open-source desktop...

Mesa OpenGL Threading Enabled For More Games Yielding Sizable Performance Jumps

Phoronix - Thu, 04/02/2020 - 23:02
Well known open-source AMD OpenGL driver developer Marek Olšák has enabled more Linux games to run with Mesa's GLTHREAD functionality enabled for helping with the performance...

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