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Peanuts, paper towels, and other important considerations on community

opensource.com - Tue, 09/03/2019 - 15:00

The most powerful aspects of an organization's culture live in the smallest individual gestures—sometimes no bigger than a peanut.

Not long ago, as I was sitting in the Dallas airport waiting for a delayed flight, I watched another passenger munch on some peanuts. Their shells fell all over the floor and, after a few minutes, the passenger kicked them into the aisle, presumably for the airport cleaning staff to collect later.


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An introduction to Hyperledger Fabric

opensource.com - Tue, 09/03/2019 - 15:00

One of the biggest projects in the blockchain industry, Hyperledger, is comprised of a set of open source tools and subprojects. It's a global collaboration hosted by The Linux Foundation and includes leaders in different sectors who are aiming to build a robust, business-driven blockchain framework.


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FFmpeg Adds ZeroMQ Support To Let Multiple Clients Connect To A Single Instance

Phoronix - Tue, 09/03/2019 - 12:06
An interesting new addition to FFmpeg's avformat library is ZeroMQ protocol support for enhancing its streaming abilities...

Want to power innovative clouds? Rev up open source technologies

Red Hat News - Tue, 09/03/2019 - 12:00

It wasn’t that long ago that open source software was considered an unusual technology choice for enterprise computing. Not so anymore. According to Red Hat’s 2019 State of Enterprise Open Source survey of 950 IT professionals, 68% of respondents said their use of enterprise open source has increased over the past 12 months.

Mozilla Rust Considered for Linux Drivers - PC Perspective

Google News - Tue, 09/03/2019 - 09:00
Mozilla Rust Considered for Linux Drivers  PC Perspective

When Graydon Hoare of Mozilla (and later others) designed Rust, they wanted a fast, concurrent, memory-safe language without garbage collection because ...

Geometric Picking Finally Lands In GNOME/Mutter 3.34 For Lowering CPU Usage

Phoronix - Tue, 09/03/2019 - 06:33
In addition to Mutter seeing today an important last minute performance fix for the NVIDIA proprietary driver, Mutter also saw a long-standing performance optimization finally land for GNOME 3.34 that benefits all hardware/drivers...

Linux 5.3-rc7 Released One Day Late While Linux 5.3 Likely Coming In Two Weeks

Phoronix - Tue, 09/03/2019 - 01:42
It appears Linus Torvalds is spending some time away from his computers this US Labor Day weekend with the Linux 5.3-rc7 kernel test release coming one day late...

Open source Kodi 18.4 'Leia' now available for Windows, macOS, Linux, and more - BetaNews

Google News - Tue, 09/03/2019 - 01:29
Open source Kodi 18.4 'Leia' now available for Windows, macOS, Linux, and more  BetaNews

Officially, Kodi is not for piracy, but the reality is… it sort of is. Look, not everyone uses the software for nefarious purposes, but let's be honest here, folks, in these ...

Linux for Chromebooks could get an installation menu for different distros - About Chromebooks

Google News - Tue, 09/03/2019 - 00:58
Linux for Chromebooks could get an installation menu for different distros  About Chromebooks

Got Crostini on your Chromebook? Then you likely have Debian Linux installed since that's the default. Google could take an approach similar to Microsoft and ...

Intel Gen12 Graphics Linux Patches Reveal New Display Feature for Tiger Lake - Tom's Hardware

Google News - Tue, 09/03/2019 - 00:37
Intel Gen12 Graphics Linux Patches Reveal New Display Feature for Tiger Lake  Tom's Hardware

A new series of Linux kernel patches indicate0 that support for Gen12 graphics for Tiger Lake is well underway.

Khadas VIM3 Linux Benchmarks and Comparison to Raspberry Pi 4 - CNX Software

Google News - Mon, 09/02/2019 - 22:50
Khadas VIM3 Linux Benchmarks and Comparison to Raspberry Pi 4  CNX Software

Khadas VIM3 Linux Benchmarks - SBC Bench and Speedometer 2.0 results compared to Raspberry Pi 4 at 1.5 GHz, or overclocked to 2.0 GHz.

Firefox 69 Gearing Up For Release With Linux Performance Improvements

Phoronix - Mon, 09/02/2019 - 22:28
Firefox 69.0 is set to be officially released tomorrow but for those eager to upgrade the release binaries have now hit their FTP server...

Firefox 69 Gearing Up For Release With Linux Performance Improvements - Phoronix

Google News - Mon, 09/02/2019 - 22:28
Firefox 69 Gearing Up For Release With Linux Performance Improvements  Phoronix

Firefox 69.0 is set to be officially released tomorrow but for those eager to upgrade the release binaries have now hit their FTP server. Firefox 69 isn't the most ...

Increasing Prospect of Linux Software Market by 2025 with Top key players like Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, IBM, Oracle - Indian Columnist

Google News - Mon, 09/02/2019 - 22:23
Increasing Prospect of Linux Software Market by 2025 with Top key players like Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, IBM, Oracle  Indian Columnist

Linux is a free and open source unix-like operating system. This Linux Software market research is an intelligence report with meticulous efforts undertaken to ...

Godot Begins Working On Its Vulkan 3D Rendering Support

Phoronix - Mon, 09/02/2019 - 20:17
The increasingly used Godot open-source game engine has been working on porting to Vulkan as part of Godot 4.0. With much of the lower-level and 2D bits in good standing, work on their 3D rendering support with Vulkan has begun...

DAV1D Experimenting With Vulkan & OpenGL ES GPU Offloading

Phoronix - Mon, 09/02/2019 - 19:25
There isn't any AV1 video decode/encode built into the video engines of today's GPUs, but the DAV1D project CPU-based AV1 decoder is experimenting with offloading some aspects of the process to current generation hardware with OpenGL ES and Vulkan...

Kodi 18.4 Released With A Few Months Worth Of Fixes

Phoronix - Mon, 09/02/2019 - 18:56
For those with extra time on their hands this US Labor Day, the Kodi team behind this open-source HTPC software issued their 18.4 Leia release...

GNOME 3.34's Mutter Lands A Last-Minute Performance Fix For NVIDIA

Phoronix - Mon, 09/02/2019 - 18:42
GNOME 3.34 is expected for release next Tuesday while squeezing into Mutter this morning is an important performance fix for those running GNOME on X11 with the NVIDIA proprietary graphics driver...

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