Open-source News

Java security, mainframes having a moment, and more industry trends

opensource.com - Wed, 04/29/2020 - 23:20

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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Generic USB Display Driver Published For Linux - Allowing Nifty Possibilities With Raspberry Pi, Etc

Phoronix - Wed, 04/29/2020 - 22:08
Longtime Linux DRM developer Noralf Trønnes has written a new driver for Linux to serve generic USB display purposes. This driver was written following his idea of turning a Raspberry Pi Zero into a USB to HDMI display adapter...

17 Years Later: Intel 865 Chipset Seeing FBC Enabled On Linux

Phoronix - Wed, 04/29/2020 - 19:28
If you are still running any pre-Sandybridge Intel hardware, you should really consider upgrading to modern hardware for the performance and efficiency gains... But should you still be tied to an old i865-based system, there is an improvement coming in 2020 for Linux users...

Microsoft Releases Shader Conductor 0.3 For Its Shader Cross-Compiler

Phoronix - Wed, 04/29/2020 - 18:55
Back in 2018 Microsoft announced Shader Conductor as one of their newest open-source projects at the time for cross-compiling HLSL to other shading languages like GLSL. Out this morning is Shader Conductor v0.3...

Sailfish OS 3.3 "Rokua" Released With Many Improvements For This Mobile Linux OS

Phoronix - Wed, 04/29/2020 - 18:45
Jolla announced today Sailfish OS 3.3 "Rokua" as the newest version of their Linux-based smartphone platform...

Trinity Desktop Turns 10 Years Old As A Fork Of KDE 3.5 - Celebrates With New Release

Phoronix - Wed, 04/29/2020 - 18:26
The Trinity Desktop Environment is marking its tenth anniversary with a new release of this desktop forked from the KDE 3.5 code-base...

How to Configure Network Connection Using ‘nmcli’ Tool

Tecmint - Wed, 04/29/2020 - 15:44
Abbreviated as nmcli, the network manager command-line interface is a nifty and easy to use tool that saves you lots of time when you need to configure an IP address. To display all the...

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