Open-source News

Prolific open-source developer Richard Hughes of Red Hat who has been responsible for the creation of PackageKit, the ColorHug colorimeter hardware, GNOME Software, and for the past number of years focused on the Fwupd firmware updating utility and Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) has a new open-source project...

Jcat: A New Alternative To Microsoft Catalog Files  Phoronix

NVIDIA has issued another stable Linux driver release in their long-term 440 series...

NVIDIA 440.64 Driver Released With MX330/MX350 Support, Linux 5.6 Compatibility  Phoronix

Wind River launches dev site with TensorFlow for Linux and a free VxWorks download  LinuxGizmos.com

Wind River launches dev site with TensorFlow for Linux and a free VxWorks download  LinuxGizmos.com

Advanced Research Report to Linux Software Market 2020 -2025 with Top Key Players Google, Twitter, Facebook, etc.  News Times

The Unity 8 desktop environment that continues to be developed by the UBports open-source community for use on UBports' Ubuntu Touch and ultimately back on the Linux desktop as well have renamed the project...

Unity 8 Desktop Renamed To Lomiri  Phoronix

A new version of the Radeon Open Compute "ROCm" stack is available today but it still doesn't deliver on Navi support...

On top of the Mesa "RADV" Vulkan driver's recent support for using the Radeon GPU Profiler with this open-source driver, RADV is now adding support for the SQTT hardware block on Radeon GPUs for expanding the profiling metrics it is able to expose...

Global Linux Software Market 2020 By Demand drivers – Google, RedHat, Amazon, Twitter, Novell  Bandera County Courier

The LLVMpipe CPU-based software rasterizer OpenGL driver within Mesa's Gallium3D now has working tessellation shader support (ARB_tessellation_shader) and can even run Unigine Heaven demo properly, just don't expect good performance...

Landing just in time for GNOME 3.36 is a merge request that has been open for nearly one year on improving Mutter's hardware cursor handling...

The Qt Company has released their first beta of the forthcoming Qt 5.15 tool-kit...

DWARROWS RELEASES TODAY for Windows, Mac, and Linux  Gamasutra

Windows 10: Containers are the future, and here's what you need to know  TechRepublic

MoonQuest (Available now on PC, macOS, and Linux for $19.99 USD)  Gamasutra

In the "always-on" future with billions of connected devices, storing raw data for analysis later will not be an option because users want accurate responses in real time. Prediction of failures and other context-sensitive conditions require data to be processed in real time—certainly before it hits a database.

read more

Psst. Word on the web is that RSS died in 2013. That's when Google pulled the plug on Google Reader.

Don't believe everything that you hear. RSS is alive. It's well. It's still a great way to choose the information you want to read without algorithms making the decision for you. All you need is the right feed reader.

read more