Open-source News

Red Hat introduces rolling release CentOS Stream  ZDNet

Red Hat's little brother server operating system will now come with a rolling release option: CentOS Stream for developers.

AMD's AMDVLK open-source Vulkan Linux driver recently fell off its weekly release wagon with the last release being nearly one month ago. But today they finally tagged their next milestone and given the time that's lapsed there are a number of new features and improvements...

The Apache Software Foundation today announced that Rya has been promoted as the organization's newest top-level project...

IOTA and Linux Foundation partner for “edge computing” project  Decrypt

The internet-of-things cryptocurrency IOTA, and the Linux Foundation, the team behind the developer-friendly operating system, have joined forces.

Getting started with a terminal emulator for SEO programming  Search Engine Land

While it's true that you can access abundant resources through your operating system's GUI, a terminal emulator window will provide you access to command ...

Microsoft: 'Battle-tested' .NET Core 3.0 is out, plus Visual Studio 2019 updates  ZDNet

Microsoft adds Windows Forms and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) for building apps in .NET Core 3.0.

Released yesterday was The Surge 2 third-person action RPG game by Deck13 and sequel to the earlier The Surge game. While only released for Windows and consoles, thanks to Valve's Steam Play there is same-day support on Linux...

Sent in and already landed on Monday were the PCI changes for Linux 5.4 and includes an interesting feature addition...

Longtime X11 developer Keith Packard -- who these days is focused full-time on RISC-V while working for SiFive -- has released Picolibc 1.0 as a new libc implementation for embedded systems...

In the first article in this series, I demonstrated how to use planned failure to ensure expected outcomes in your code. In this second article, I'll continue developing my example project—an automated cat door that opens during daylight hours and locks during the night.

As a reminder, you can follow along using the .NET xUnit.net testing framework by following the instructions here.

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The zope.interface library is a way to overcome ambiguity in Python interface design. Let's take a look at it.

Implicit interfaces are not zen

The Zen of Python is loose enough and contradicts itself enough that you can prove anything from it. Let's meditate upon one of its most famous principles: "Explicit is better than implicit."

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Security is a misunderstood element in DevOps. Some see it as outside of DevOps' purview, while others find it important (and overlooked) enough to recommend moving to DevSecOps. No matter your perspective on where it belongs, it's clear that security affects everyone.

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The age of AI is upon us. Emerging technologies give humans some relief from routine tasks and allow us to get back to the creative, adaptable creatures many of us prefer being.

So a shift to developing human skills in the workplace should be a critical focus for organizations. In this part of my series on learning agility, we'll take a look at some reasons for a sense of urgency over reskilling our workforce and reconnecting to our humanness.

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IOTA and Linux Foundation partner for “edge computing” project  Yahoo Finance

With Ubuntu 19.10 one of the changes we have been looking forward to the most is the planned Ubuntu desktop installation support atop ZFS as a root file-system and Canonical's related work around the new ZSYS daemon. It's looking like the basic ZFS root installation support will make it in time for next month's Ubuntu 19.10 release but more advanced installation features won't be ready in time...

Traditionally with the Linux graphics drivers there are PCI ID tables littered in multiple places throughout the driver stack from the DRM/KMS kernel drivers to the Mesa OpenGL/Vulkan drivers but also the potential for other areas like the increasingly less common DDX drivers and other components. AMD is looking to address the proliferation of PCI IDs throughout the stack and the maintenance burden of having to keep the list of IDs in sync across the different components...

Just a week past the previous Proton update, Proton 4.11-6 is out today from Valve as the latest version of their Wine downstream powering Steam Play...

How to back up a local Linux directory to a remote Linux host with rsync  TechRepublic

There are countless ways to back up data on the Linux platform. One of the more tried and true methods is by using the rsync tool. Rsync is a remote file copying ...

Presto Moves Under Linux Umbrella  Datanami

An SQL query engine developed by Facebook and moved earlier this year to a non-profit development group is now being hosted by the Linux Foundation. The.

Fedora Workstation 31 when it debuts at the end of October should be another great release for the Fedora project and continuing to ship with the bleeding-edge yet stable packages and latest upstream innovations...