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NVIDIA Gets Into Open-Source Hardware With A Ventilator Design

Phoronix - Fri, 05/01/2020 - 21:28
While waiting to see what NVIDIA will be doing on the open-source driver front that has been pushed back, NVIDIA made a surprise open-source announcement today...

AMDGPU TMZ Support Wired Up For Linux 5.8

Phoronix - Fri, 05/01/2020 - 21:04
In addition to Intel sending in new feature code to DRM-Next, AMD developers on Thursday also sent in their AMDGPU/AMDKFD feature updates for Linux 5.8...

Intel's Cloud Hypervisor 0.7 Adds More Hotplug Capabilities, Musl Libc, SECCOMP Sandbox

Phoronix - Fri, 05/01/2020 - 20:22
Intel's server software team continues working on Cloud-Hypervisor as a Rust-written hypervisor for modern Linux VMs. Cloud-Hypervisor has been picking up a lot of features and out today is another pre-1.0 feature release...

Intel Graphics Code Seeing More Tiger Lake Action, Power Efficiency Work For Linux 5.8

Phoronix - Fri, 05/01/2020 - 18:46
Intel's graphics driver team continues amassing more changes for Linux 5.8...

GhostBSD 20.04 Released With Fixes, Updated Kernel

Phoronix - Fri, 05/01/2020 - 18:35
GhostBSD 20.04 is out as the newest monthly update to this desktop-focused operating system built off the FreeBSD base...

The FSF reveals the tools they use for chat, video, and more

opensource.com - Fri, 05/01/2020 - 15:01

In times like these, it becomes all the more important to take a closer look at tools like Zoom, Slack, and Facebook Messenger.


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Transparent, open source alternative to Google Analytics

opensource.com - Fri, 05/01/2020 - 15:01

Google Analytics is the most popular website analytics tool. Millions of developers and creators turn to it to collect and analyze their website statistics.

More than 53% of all sites on the web track their visitors using Google Analytics. 84% of sites that do use a known analytics script use Google Analytics.


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How to connect a Raspberry Pi to a serial USB port with Python from the terminal

opensource.com - Fri, 05/01/2020 - 15:00

Raspberry Pi can be used to interface with the real world from its GPIO, for example, by controlling a stepper motor. You can also use Raspberry Pi to dialog with some devices—like Arduino—by using a serial USB port.

In this guide, I'll show you how to connect your Raspberry Pi to a serial USB port and read its values with Python from the terminal (without a desktop environment). For this purpose, we'll use Pyserial and its terminal tool.


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Installation of Manjaro 20.0 (KDE Edition) Desktop

Tecmint - Fri, 05/01/2020 - 13:58
Manjaro 20.0, also codenamed Lysia, was released on April 27th, 2020. This comes only 2 days after the release of the much-awaited Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, codenamed Focal Fossa after the Madagascar Feline creature. Manjaro...

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