Open-source News

Suse’s OpenStack Cloud dissipates  TechCrunch

In the many, many technical interviews I've gone through in my professional career, I've noticed that I'm rarely asked questions that have definitive answers. Most of the time, I'm asked open-ended questions that do not have an absolutely correct answer but evaluate my prior experiences and how well I can explain things.

One interesting open-ended question that I've been asked several times is:

"As you start your first day on a project, what five tools do you install first and why?"

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You probably copy and paste snippets of text on your computer multiple times a day without ever thinking about it. You may take it for granted, because it's older than Unix, with its earliest implementation through macros or manual repetition of line-editor commands. While the process has largely remained the same over the past 15 years, there's a side to copy and paste that many users never see: the clipboard manager.

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SUSE drops OpenStack Cloud  ZDNet

Choosing a programming language for a project is often a complicated decision, particularly when it involves switching from one language to another. For many programmers, it is not only a technical exercise but also a deeply emotional one. The lack of known or measurable criteria for picking a language often means the choice digresses into a series of emotional appeals.

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ActiveMQ is a popular, open-source, multi-protocol implementation of message-oriented middleware (MOM) with enterprise features written in Java, used to send messages between two applications, or two components inside an application. It supports a wide...

Besides RADV ACO compiler testing and AMDGPU bulk moves restored another common test request recently on the Radeon Linux graphics side has been looking at the NIR support...

The in-kernel staging Amlogic Meson video decode driver could soon handle H.264 support as soon as Linux 5.5...

Linux Software Market to Expand Massively during 2019-2024 with Profiling Players Debian, Fedora, Opensuse  Market Report Gazette

Fedora Linux wisely kills 32-bit version  BetaNews

For those annoyed by random textures appearing when launching the popular Rocket League game with the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver, a workaround has landed in Mesa 19.3-devel Git while also marked for back-porting to currently supported stable series...

Devs Engage in Soul-Searching on Future of Open Source  LinuxInsider.com

How to use Cockpit management software in Linux  H2S Media

Extreme hands StackStorm workflow automation to Linux group  TechTarget

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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Fedora to drop support for 32-bit Linux with Fedora 31  Notebookcheck.net

RDPRU is one of the new instruction set extensions of AMD "Zen 2" CPUs that is for reading a processor register that is typically limited to privilege level zero. RDPRU allows for reading select registers at any privilege level. With Linux 5.5, the RDPRU presence will be advertised by the CPU features...

Analysis of A New Golang Ransomware Targeting Linux Systems  Security Boulevard

The Zephyr Project Welcomes Eclipse IoT and Oticon As Members to Create a Safe and Secure RTOS  Yahoo Finance

How to perform network throughput tests with iperf  TechRepublic