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Intel's Clear Linux To Divest From The Desktop, Focus On Server + Cloud Workloads

Phoronix - Thu, 04/23/2020 - 21:54
Intel's performance-optimized Clear Linux has made some inroads in the desktop space over the past two years with providing a nice desktop installer last year, enhancing their documentation, and making available more desktop packages. Clear Linux has offered some of the fastest performance even for desktop workloads like web browser performance and has worked out equally well on AMD hardware. But moving forward they are going to be shifting back to their roots on focusing on server and cloud workloads...

The Panfrost Gallium3D Driver Begins Rendering On Arm Bifrost Hardware

Phoronix - Thu, 04/23/2020 - 21:03
With the open-source Panfrost Gallium3D driver having its Arm Midgard graphics support in order, the developers involved have begun working more on the newer Bifrost architecture...

Samsung Respins exFAT-Utils As exFATprogs In New Release

Phoronix - Thu, 04/23/2020 - 20:05
A few weeks ago the Samsung engineers responsible for the new Microsoft exFAT Linux kernel driver released exFAT-Utils as their user-space utilities for managing and creating exFAT file-systems under Linux. A new release is out and exFAT-Utils has been re-spun as exfatprogs...

Qt Creator 4.12 Released For Improving Qt/C++ Development

Phoronix - Thu, 04/23/2020 - 19:43
A few weeks ahead of Qt 5.15, The Qt Company has released Qt Creator 4.12 as their Qt/C++ focused integrated development environment that also supports other languages via the Language Server Protocol...

How to Install Ruby on CentOS/RHEL 8

Tecmint - Thu, 04/23/2020 - 15:23
Ruby is a dynamic, multi-purpose, free, and open-source programming language that is usually used for the development of web applications. It’s a high-level programming language that enjoys a vibrant community of developers who help...

Should you outsource your next open source project?

opensource.com - Thu, 04/23/2020 - 15:02

There are many benefits of using open source solutions for your projects. They're flexible, agile, cost-effective, and highly customizable. Most offer reliable information security thanks to the responsiveness of the open source community. In addition, you can start small and then scale up to shorten the development cycle and achieve results quickly.

However, implementing open source software may require specific expertise you don't have in-house. Should you outsource your next open source project, or assemble an in-house team?


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