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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...

Navigating Ansible documentation, automating patching, virtualization, and more news

opensource.com - Mon, 09/02/2019 - 15:03

In this third edition of Ansible Around The Web, we've a delicious spread of ops-related YouTube content, and in the blogs section, guides to virtualization with oVirt and help navigating the extensive Ansible documentation.

If you spot an interesting Ansible story on your travels, please send us the link via Mark on Twitter, and the Ansible Community team will curate the best submissions.


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Why I use Java

opensource.com - Mon, 09/02/2019 - 15:00

I believe I started using Java in 1997, not long after Java 1.1 saw the light of day. Since that time, by and large, I've really enjoyed programming in Java; although I confess these days, I'm as likely to be found writing Groovy scripts as "serious code" in Java.


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Top take-aways from DevOps World 2019

opensource.com - Mon, 09/02/2019 - 15:00

In August, I had the opportunity to join more than 2,000 people gathered in San Francisco for DevOps World 2019. Following are some of the most newsworthy announcements from the 150 breakout sessions and 16 workshops held over the four-day event.


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BuyDRM adds MultiKey Server for Linux with multi-DRM support - CAPA - Centre for Aviation

Google News - Mon, 09/02/2019 - 11:37
BuyDRM adds MultiKey Server for Linux with multi-DRM support  CAPA - Centre for Aviation

BuyDRM announced (27-Aug-2019) the addition of Linux support for their MultiKey Server, a specifically designed multi-DRM software platform for ...

Wine-Staging 4.15 Released With Framework For PnP Drivers, Various Updated Patches

Phoronix - Mon, 09/02/2019 - 08:10
Based off Friday's Wine 4.15, Wine-Staging 4.15 is now available that has its 800+ existing patches while adding a number of new patches and updating functionality for some of the existing feature patches...

Ubuntu-based Linux Lite 4.6 now available - BetaNews

Google News - Mon, 09/02/2019 - 00:33
Ubuntu-based Linux Lite 4.6 now available  BetaNews

Happy Labor Day Weekend, dear BetaNews readers! Tomorrow, many of us “working stiffs” will get the opportunity to do nothing. We can sit around, watch TV, ...

How to code an Arduino with a Chromebook - About Chromebooks

Google News - Sun, 09/01/2019 - 23:43
How to code an Arduino with a Chromebook  About Chromebooks

Can you code an Arduino using a Chromebook? It's possible with Linux but not until USB support is expanded. Here are three ways to program an Arduino ...

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