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The Y2038 problem in the Linux kernel, 25 years of Java, and other industry news

opensource.com - Thu, 02/06/2020 - 00:17

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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Linux 5.6 Continues Work On Intel VT-d Nested Mode Support

Phoronix - Wed, 02/05/2020 - 22:38
The IOMMU changes have been sent in for the ongoing Linux 5.6 kernel merge window...

Bareflank Hypervisor 2.0 Released With UEFI Support, New Memory Manager

Phoronix - Wed, 02/05/2020 - 20:36
The Bareflank Linux hypervisor that is written in modern C++ and focused on security and serving as a framework/SDK for other hypervisors, finally experienced its big 2.0 release...

Systemd 245 Shipping Soon With Systemd-Homed, Systemd-Repart Partitioner

Phoronix - Wed, 02/05/2020 - 20:22
Systemd 245 is soon shipping as the first feature update of 2020 and it's another big one...

Oreboot Continues Advancing For Open-Source, Rust-Based Booting On RISC-V

Phoronix - Wed, 02/05/2020 - 20:15
Oreboot is the effort that has been taking shape over the past year as an open-source focused, Rustlang-based downstream of Coreboot. Oreboot continues advancing in its own right concurrent to the wonderful Coreboot advancements...

Phoronix Test Suite 9.4 Milestone 2 Released With Result Viewer Improvements

Phoronix - Wed, 02/05/2020 - 19:31
The second test release of Phoronix Test Suite 9.4 is now available with this latest update focusing on improvements to the result viewer...

Red Hat Talks Up debuginfod As The New Debug Info Web Server

Phoronix - Wed, 02/05/2020 - 16:25
Debuginfod is the new ELFUTILS HTTP web server for providing debug information or even source code on-demand to debuggers and related development utilities...

Getting started with GnuCash

opensource.com - Wed, 02/05/2020 - 16:02

For the past four years, I've been managing my personal finances with GnuCash, and I'm quite satisfied with it. The open source (GPL v3) project has been growing and improving since its initial release in 1998, and the latest version, 3.8, released in December 2019, adds many improvements and bug fixes.


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