Open-source News

PipeWire Gets A Session Manager With WirePlumber

Phoronix - Fri, 05/08/2020 - 03:02
PipeWire, the Red Hat backed solution for providing modern management of audio and video streams that supports a Wayland-minded environment and also sandboxed applications with Flatpak while fulfilling use-cases set by JACK and PulseAudio, has a new session manager option...

The perfect combo with Prometheus and Grafana, and more industry trends

opensource.com - Fri, 05/08/2020 - 00:35

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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AMD Ryzen 3 3100 + Ryzen 3 3300X Offering Great Budget Linux CPU Performance

Phoronix - Thu, 05/07/2020 - 21:00
At the end of April AMD announced the Ryzen 3 3100 + Ryzen 3 3300X and these Zen 2 budget processors are now shipping. Here are our initial benchmarks of the AMD Ryzen 3 3100 and Ryzen 3 3300X processors running on Ubuntu Linux compared to an assortment of old and new Intel/AMD CPUs with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

GCC 10 Compiler Released With Radeon OpenMP/OpenACC Offload, Intel Tigerlake/Cooperlake

Phoronix - Thu, 05/07/2020 - 20:59
The GNU Compiler Collection 10 has seen its first stable release this morning in the form of GCC 10.1...

There Are Many Interesting Google Summer of Code 2020 Open-Source Projects

Phoronix - Thu, 05/07/2020 - 19:14
Google this week announced accepted projects for Summer of Code 2020 as their virtual engagement for getting students involved in open-source development. As usual, there are a lot of interesting GSoC projects...

Experimental Linux Live OS For Showcasing Wayland Updated With Latest Desktops

Phoronix - Thu, 05/07/2020 - 18:40
Years ago long before GNOME had great Wayland support and was used by default on the likes of Fedora Workstation and long before other Wayland compositors had mature support along with other areas of the stack, there was a Linux distribution offering up an experimental Linux "Live DVD/USB" OS for showcasing Wayland. That distribution is now out with a new release...

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