Open-source News

OmniOS r151030y Brings Microcode Updates For Intel, Zen Topology Updates For AMD

Phoronix - Mon, 10/21/2019 - 23:04
OmniOS Community Edition remains one of the few successful Illumos/Solaris operating systems outside Oracle. OmniOS CE r151030y was released today along with other older build updates to address the recent sudo vulnerability...

Kubernetes networking, OpenStack Train, and more industry trends

opensource.com - Mon, 10/21/2019 - 22:30

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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Arch Linux's Pacman 5.2 Released - Drops Support For Delta Packages, Adds Zstd Support

Phoronix - Mon, 10/21/2019 - 21:41
The Pacman 5.2 package manager for Arch Linux systems is now available with a variety of changes over earlier releases...

GCC 10 Switches Arm's Scheduling-Pressure Algorithm For Better Performance

Phoronix - Mon, 10/21/2019 - 19:56
A minor optimization was merged into GCC 10 last week for benefiting those on Arm compiling their code with the GNU Compiler Collection...

Ikey Doherty Launches Open-Source Focused Game/Software Development Company

Phoronix - Mon, 10/21/2019 - 18:49
Well known open-source figure Ikey Doherty who rose to prominence for his work on the Solus Linux distribution and then went on to work on Intel's Clear Linux project is now having his hand at game engine development...

20 Things To Do After Installing Ubuntu 19.10 ‘Eoan Ermine’

Tecmint - Mon, 10/21/2019 - 18:25
Ubuntu 19.10 with codename Eoan Ermine is now here and available for install. For those of you who are eager to check the latest Ubuntu version and for all newcomers to the Linux family,...

Release of the Year: What’s New in Ubuntu “Eoan Ermine” 19.10?

Tecmint - Mon, 10/21/2019 - 18:14
The very much anticipated release of Ubuntu’s latest cool project is finally upon us and the dev team made sure not to disappoint. Codenamed Eoan Ermine, Ubuntu 19.10 is the next big step that...

GCC 10 Has C++20 Concepts Support In Order

Phoronix - Mon, 10/21/2019 - 16:43
The original C++ Concepts technical specification has been supported by the GNU Compiler Collection since GCC 6, but for GCC 10 the latest C++20 enablement is supporting that refined version of this feature...

Qt 3D Will Still Be Improved On Alongside Qt Quick 3D

Phoronix - Mon, 10/21/2019 - 15:28
While Qt Quick 3D has been talked up a lot recently with The Qt Company's plans for that new 3D module inside the current Qt5 and future Qt6 tool-kits, Qt 3D itself is not going away...

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