Open-source News

It wasn’t that long ago that open source software was considered an unusual technology choice for enterprise computing. Not so anymore. According to Red Hat’s 2019 State of Enterprise Open Source survey of 950 IT professionals, 68% of respondents said their use of enterprise open source has increased over the past 12 months.

Mozilla Rust Considered for Linux Drivers  PC Perspective

When Graydon Hoare of Mozilla (and later others) designed Rust, they wanted a fast, concurrent, memory-safe language without garbage collection because ...

In addition to Mutter seeing today an important last minute performance fix for the NVIDIA proprietary driver, Mutter also saw a long-standing performance optimization finally land for GNOME 3.34 that benefits all hardware/drivers...

Kali Linux Ethical Hacking OS Switches to Linux 5.2, Now Supports OnePlus 7  Softpedia News

LG V20, Nexus 5X, and Nexus 10 images also available.

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

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

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

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

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 69.0 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

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

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 ...

Mozilla Firefox 69 Is Now Available to Download for Linux, Windows, and macOS  Softpedia News

It will be available through OTA updates on September 3rd.

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...

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...

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 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...

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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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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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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