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3 metrics to measure your open source community health

opensource.com - Sat, 03/21/2020 - 15:00

Community building is table stakes in the success of any open source project. Even outside of open source, community is considered a competitive advantage for businesses in many industries—from retail, to gaming, to fitness. (For a deeper dive, see "When community becomes your competitive advantage" in the Harvard Business Review.)


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TrueNAS 12.0 CORE Supporting ZFS Async Copy-On-Write

Phoronix - Sat, 03/21/2020 - 12:49
TrueNAS 12.0 CORE, which up until the new TrueNAS / FreeNAS branding unification would have been called FreeNAS, will in its next release support ZFS async copy-on-write functionality...

Google Engineer Shows "SESES" For Mitigating LVI + Side-Channel Attacks - Code Runs ~7% Original Speed

Phoronix - Sat, 03/21/2020 - 07:10
Disclosed last week was the Load Value Injection attack affecting Intel CPUs and requiring new mitigations. While the GNU Assembler mitigation options were quickly added, on the LLVM toolchain side the developers there continue evaluating the proposed LVI mitigation along with another option that looks to mitigate more than just LVI. The "SESES" proposal looks more broadly at mitigating CPU side-channel vulnerabilities but with shattering performance hits...

Intel Cloud Hypervisor 0.6 Released With VFIO Device Hotplug, I/O Improvements

Phoronix - Sat, 03/21/2020 - 05:57
Intel's open-source team responsible for their Rust-based cloud hypervisor today issued a big feature update...

DXVK 1.6 Released With D3D9 Performance Work, Various Game Fixes

Phoronix - Fri, 03/20/2020 - 23:26
DXVK 1.6 is out in time for weekend gamers wishing to enjoy recent Windows games on Linux...

OpenJDK 14 Has Some Performance Improvements But OpenJDK 8 Still Strong

Phoronix - Fri, 03/20/2020 - 20:20
Given this week's general availability release of OpenJDK 14, here are some fresh benchmarks looking at all the major releases from OpenJDK 8 through 14 while looking at the JVM performance across multiple workloads.

Linux Mint Debian Edition 4 Released - Finally Supports SecureBoot, Home Encryption

Phoronix - Fri, 03/20/2020 - 19:55
The Linux Mint crew has released LMDE 4 "Debbie" as their hedge against anything dramatic happening to Ubuntu that would limit their ability to offer Linux Mint and for those preferring the upstream Debian base...

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