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Ubuntu 20.10 "Groovy Gorilla" Open For Development

Phoronix - Mon, 04/27/2020 - 18:57
Just days after Canonical shipped the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" release, Ubuntu 20.10 "Groovy Gorilla" is now open for development...

DevOps vs. Agile: Do they have anything in common?

opensource.com - Mon, 04/27/2020 - 15:02

The topic of DevOps vs. Agile is almost like debating iPhone vs. Android—everyone has an opinion, and emotions can become heated, especially if people disagree.

After writing DevOps v. Agile: What's the difference? and reading the comments on the article, I wanted to add some more thoughts—including how some of my thinking has changed on the topic.


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Comparing subscription, pay-per-bug, and consulting software business models

opensource.com - Mon, 04/27/2020 - 15:01

At FOSS Backstage this year, I hosted a discussion on open source models and shared why I think subscriptions are a great way to support open source products.

Picking a business model

The company I co-founded, Nextcloud, only offers its services to customers on a (per user) subscription model. Some customers ask us during the sales conversation why they cannot just get access to our engineers on an hourly basis as they get from third party consultants: pay for the bug fix or support case, and be done?


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How to secure your Linux email services with SSL/TLS

opensource.com - Mon, 04/27/2020 - 15:00

Traditionally, email services send data in an unprotected way—whether you are sending emails via SMTP or receiving them via IMAP or POP, the defaults are in cleartext. With more online applications enforcing encryption and the general consensus to protect your data, it's best to secure your email services with a Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS) security certificate.


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How to Install Ubuntu 20.04 Server

Tecmint - Mon, 04/27/2020 - 13:36
Ubuntu Server 20.04, also named Focal Fossa, has been released by Canonical and it’s now ready for installation. This article will walk you through the process of installing Ubuntu 20.04 Server Edition with Long...

OpenCL 3.0 Bringing Greater Flexibility, Async DMA Extensions

Phoronix - Mon, 04/27/2020 - 13:00
OpenCL 3.0 is being released today in provisional form. OpenCL 3.0 is making OpenCL 2.x functionality now optional to make it better suited for a range of devices plus there is new functionality introduced like subgroups, extensions for asynchronous data copies, and more.

More ways Red Hat is here to help

Red Hat News - Mon, 04/27/2020 - 12:00

When we made the decision to move Red Hat Summit from a physical event in San Francisco to an online-only virtual experience, we also reconsidered what we put our focus on this week. 

Red Hat extends several product life cycles to ease migration pressures

Red Hat News - Mon, 04/27/2020 - 12:00

Red Hat's lifecycles are carefully planned to give our customers a stable platform for building, deploying and maintaining their applications while also delivering innovation at a steady pace. Red Hat understands that undertaking planned migrations during this crisis is more challenging than usual, and we want to help take pressure off organizations while they are focused on near-term operations.

Vulkan 1.2.139 Released With VK_EXT_robustness2 Extension

Phoronix - Mon, 04/27/2020 - 12:00
The routine Vulkan 1.2.139 maintenance update brings with it two new extensions...

Linux 5.7-rc3 Kernel Released: "In A World Gone Mad, The Kernel Looks Almost Boringly Regular"

Phoronix - Mon, 04/27/2020 - 06:00
Linus Torvalds just released the third weekly release candidate of the forthcoming Linux 5.7 kernel...

Manjaro 20.0 Released With Its Flagship Easy-To-Use, Arch-Based Xfce Desktop Distro

Phoronix - Mon, 04/27/2020 - 05:32
Manjaro 20.0 "Lysia" is out today with its flagship Xfce spin as well as its GNOME and KDE editions for this popular, desktop-minded, Arch-based Linux distribution...

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