Open-source News

Kubernetes has emerged as the standard orchestration engine for containers and containerized workloads. It provides a common, open source abstraction layer that spans public and private cloud environments.

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The platform module provides an API to get information about the underlying system/platform where our code runs. Information such as OS name, Python Version, Architecture, Hardware information, etc. is exposed via platform module functions.

The post How to Use Platform and Keyword Module in Python first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Nitrux 1.3.4 Released With LTS Linux 5.4, Heads-Up Display Functionality  Fossbytes

Monado as the open-source OpenXR implementation has been working on support for Google's Android platform...

Global Linux Computer Market Expected To Reach Highest CAGR By 2026: Dell, System76, Purism, Slimbook, TUXEDO Computers etc.  The Think Curiouser

Global Linux Software Market 2020 Growth Trends, Industry Size, Forecast to 2027, Key Players Analysis: Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Samsung, Oracle, RedHat  The Daily Philadelphian

Global MS Office Alternative Software for Linux Market is Set For a Potential Growth By 2025 with Top Keyplayers Google, WordPerfect, Apple Inc, SoftMaker (FreeOffice), Shimo, Yozodcs etc.  Aerospace Journal

Valve has published their latest Steam Survey results. For October 2020 the Linux gaming marketshare pulled back or at least not keeping up with the pace of Steam's growing user-base...

Steam On Linux Ticks Lower For October 2020  Phoronix

The Zink Gallium3D driver that implements OpenGL on top of Vulkan has been on quite a roll recently... Beyond reaching OpenGL 4.6 support in yet-to-be-merged patches and passing ~97% of the Piglit OpenGL tests and increasingly good performance compared to Intel's OpenGL driver, the latest interesting milestone is seeing initial work on bringing Zink to macOS...

How to Try Linux Without a Classical Installation  Linux Journal

Hacker group uses Solaris zero-day to breach corporate networks  ZDNet

Orange Pi Zero 2 mini PC now available for $16 (Android 10 or Linux, Ethernet, WiFi, and Bluetooth)  Liliputing

Librem Mini v2 is a little Linux PC with Intel Comet Lake  Liliputing

Following the successful shipping of Fedora 33, Red Hat developers have begun proposing more changes for future Fedora releases...

Capsule8 Enhances Linux Protection for Production Infrastructure  GlobeNewswire

Capsule8 Enhances Linux Protection for Production Infrastructure  Benzinga

Uno Platform Update Highlights New Linux Support  Visual Studio Magazine

Hangover lets (some) Windows x86 apps run on Linux PCs with ARM or POWER chips  Liliputing

As part of my role as a principal communication strategist at an enterprise software company with an open source development model, I publish a regular update about open source community, market, and industry trends. Here are some of my and their favorite articles from that update.

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