A big change was just merged today for the in-development GNOME 3.38 that will benefit Wayland gamers and others. Red Hat’s Jonas Ådahl work on Wayland full-screen surface unredirection to bypass compositing when running full-screen games and the like has just been merged into Mutter!
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Renesas Electronics has released a new open-source ventilator system reference design that customers can use to swiftly design ready-to-assemble boards for medical ventilators. The reference design uses 20 Renesas ICs, consisting of microcontroller (MCU), power, and analog ICs that address many of the ventilator’s signal chain electrical functions.
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MindsDB has raised $3 million to grow its automated machine learning platform made for data scientists and developers to quickly train and deploy models. The funding will be used to expand its team and revenue capabilities, cofounder and COO Adam Carrigan told VentureBeat.
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Ask someone to list a few open source innovations, and they’ll likely come back with “Linux,” “Kubernetes,” or some other particular project. (Mea culpa.) Not Dr. Dirk Riehle, the professor of Open Source Software at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg. So what are open source’s four biggest innovations?
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Vapor IO has revamped Synse, its open-source software that collects operating data from data center infrastructure devices and sensors and translates it into a format that can be ingested and used by data center management or workload orchestration tools. The main point of Synse is to enable data center automation.
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In the last few years, serverless architecture has gained popularity to accelerate the development of applications. Here are some open-source serverless security tools that you should utilize to identify loopholes and patch them before a hacker penetrates to collect sensitive information.
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The modern world of software development is characterized by open source. Majority of IT stacks in companies worldwide today are composed of OSS. Jan Wildeboer, EMEA open source evangelist at Red Hat, explains in an interview with JAXenter why it would be wise to increase this figure.
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The bash shell’s history command in Linux makes it easy to review and reuse commands, but there’s a lot you do to control how much it remembers and how much forgets. Here’s how you can get the history command to remember just what you want.
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Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, companies with little in the way of resources need to keep their businesses running with what their IT department and users already have at hand. SUSE has a suggestion: Switch them to the SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED).
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Future AMD CPUs (more than likely, Zen 3) will be bearing larger CPU microcode sizes, resulting in the Linux kernel needing a change to load them. Currently the AMD Linux CPU microcode handler has a static upper limit of the page size, which is generally 4K.
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