Open-source News

Version 20.06.15619 of the open-source Intel Compute Runtime was released on Friday as powering the company's modern Linux graphics hardware compute stack...

For those tantilized by the prospects of gaming on RISC OS, SDL2 has been seeing early mainline work on supporting this long-standing operating system...

Following Netflix's AV1 adoption with collaborating with Intel on the SVT-AV1 encoder, now using AV1 streaming for Android users, and others around this advanced royalty-free video codec, Netflix is now exploring AVIF as their next-gen image format...

In this edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at new features for Raspbian, Wireguard and Linux kernel, free Python course from the NSA and more!

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I frequently get questions from open source project creators or new founders of commercial open source software (COSS) companies about the best way to market their product. Implicit in that inquiry lies more foundational questions: "What the hell is product marketing? How much time should I spend on it?"

This article aims to share some knowledge and specific action items to help open source creators understand product marketing as a concept and how to bootstrap it on their own until a project reaches the next level of traction.

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UK police tell parents to check if their kids use Linux or Discord because it means they could be hackers  Reclaim The Net

Number of VR Gamers Now Surpasses Number of Linux Gamers on Steam  Virtual Reality Times

New stable and development releases of Mesa3D are available for providing the latest open-source Linux graphics driver experience for OpenGL and Vulkan...

Simplicity Does More Than Simplify Linux  LinuxInsider.com

Blender 2.82 is out as the second update over last year's big Blender 2.80 release...

Windows vs. Linux Scaling Performance From 16 To 128 Threads With AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X  Phoronix

As has been known for a while now, AMD Ryzen Threadripper processors really show their true potential on Linux with often significant increases to the performance thanks to the kernel's better scalability compared to Microsoft Windows. While Microsoft has made some improvements in this area over the past year, with the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X 64-core / 128-thread HEDT processor it really shines on Linux. In this article are benchmarks of Windows 10 Professional and Windows 10 Enterprise against Linux on the Threadripper 3990X when going from 16 cores to 128 threads for seeing how the three operating systems are scaling.

MontaVista Launches a Linux® Migration Program for Windows® Embedded and Windows® CE Users  EnterpriseTalk

UK police deny responsibility for poster urging parents to report kids for using Kali Linux  ZDNet

Recent News Stories Shows How The Linux Computer Market Products Are Surviving In The Global Industry To 2026?  Nyse Nasdaq Live

Recent News Stories Shows How The Linux Computer Market Products Are Surviving In The Global Industry To 2026?  Nyse Nasdaq Live

Linux Computer Market Analysis by Industry Trends, Size, Share, Company Overview, Growth, Development and Forecast by 2026-2026  Instant Tech News

While many in the Linux community still cringe when hearing Imagination Tech's PowerVR given the troubling state of their graphics drivers over the years, in 2020 it looks like they are pursuing a new open-source graphics driver project...

Call us immediately if your child uses Kali Linux, squawks West Mids Police  The Register

After recently ending feature development on Qt 5.15, the alpha release of this forthcoming tool-kit is now available...