Open-source News

The first alpha release of the Enlightenment 0.24 window manager / Wayland compositor with new features and other improvements...

The "open-source Windows" ReactOS project has upgraded its build environment leading to much newer versions of key compiler toolchain components...

Web brower for Vista? - Windows Vista  BleepingComputer

Intel's OpenCL Intercept Layer remains focused on debugging and analyzing OpenCL application performance across platforms. It hadn't seen a new release, however, in two years but that changed last month...

Intel's OpenCL Intercept Layer Sees First Release In Two Years  Phoronix

Intel's OpenCL Intercept Layer Sees First Release In Two Years  Phoronix

KDE developers remain as busy as ever during the global lockdown around the coronavirus...

Linux 5.8 will see support for next-generation Marvell/Aquantia network chipsets...

Linux 5.8 Seeing Support For New Marvell/Aquantia Atlantic "A2" NICs  Phoronix

Monado, the open-source OpenXR run-time implementation for Linux, has been advancing quite well since we last reported on it back in February with its inaugural v0.1 release...

Open-Source OpenXR Runtime Monado Seeing Better Performance, New Functionality  Phoronix

Open-Source OpenXR Runtime Monado Seeing Better Performance, New Functionality  Phoronix

The Python Software Foundation (PSF) had to cancel its popular PyCon US event in response to COVID-19. I interviewed Ewa Jodlowska, Executive Director of the PSF, to talk about the experience and see what we all can learn, and how we can be supportive of the non-profit that supports one of my favorite programming languages.

The impact on PSF employees

I asked Jodlowska "how have you had to adjust your work in light of COVID-19?"

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When I first got involved in community management, I was working at the Linux Foundation, involved in the relatively new Open Platform for NFV (OPNFV) project. Over the next few years, I started to notice a lot of companies building their business around open source software and talking about building communities around their products.

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Research on Linux Computer Market (impact of COVID-19) with Top Players: Dell, System76, Purism, Slimbook, TUXEDO Computers, Vikings, Ubuntushop.be, Minifree, Entroware, Juno Computers – Cole Reports  Cole of Duty

The Godot Game Engine's Vulkan Support Is Getting In Increasingly Great Shape  Phoronix

The open-source Godot Game Engine lead developer Juan Linietsky has published a new Vulkan progress report, the first in three months, and as such there are a lot of changes...

Play video game ROMs on Raspberry Pi 4 with Debian Linux-based RetroPie 4.6  BetaNews

Linux Command Line Productivity With Tmux  Hackaday

Elementary OS or other Linux as option  Mac Rumors