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Submission + - Will Companies Cut Open Source Investment Because Of COVID-19? (www.tfir.io)

Submitted by sfcrazy
sfcrazy writes: In this interview, Rob Hirschfeld, fears that COVID-19 may have a drastic effect on Open Source. "The idea that big companies are maintaining open-source projects for the community good is going to get tested, as companies look for places where they can conserve revenue. I think that’s a really critical thing." he said, "The same is going to be true with open-source startups that are hoping to monetize support or consulting but have no real gate across the front of their infrastructure. So, companies might decide they can use the open-source project and not pay the sustaining engineers that are working in that project. These are really serious concerns about the whole open-source model, which relies on the goodwill and free money."

Submission + - Interview with FreeBSD Foundation at Linux Foundation Event (www.tfir.io)

Submitted by sfcrazy
sfcrazy writes: The Linux Foundation hosted the executive director of the FreeBSD Foundation, Deb Goodkin, at the Open Source Summit in San Diego. In this episode of Let’s Talk, we sat down with Goodkin to talk about the FreeBSD project and the foundation.

Submission + - Linode Announces Linux-based GPU Instances (www.tfir.io)

Submitted by sfcrazy
sfcrazy writes: Linode today launched new GPU-optimized cloud computing instances tailored specifically for developers and businesses requiring massive parallel computational power. The new instances are built on NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000 GPU cards with all three major types of processing cores (CUDA, Tensor, and Real-Time Ray Tracing) available to users. Linode is one of the first cloud providers to deploy NVIDIA’s latest GPU architecture.

Submission + - Why Linux On Desktop 'Failed': A Discussion With Mark Shuttleworth (www.tfir.io)

Submitted by sfcrazy
sfcrazy writes: Shuttleworth summed it in a few words :
“I think the bigger challenge has been that we haven't invented anything in the Linux that was like deeply, powerfully ahead of its time.” He also said that “if in the free software community we only allow ourselves to talk about things that look like something that already exists, then we're sort of defining ourselves as a series of forks and fragmentations.” He added that it seems the desktop Linux people want to be angry at something. We wanted to do amazing things with Unity but the community won’t let us do it, so here we are.

Source: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tfir.io%2F2019%2F05%2F15...

Submission + - GNU GPL protect Linux from fragmentation: Torvalds (cio.com)

Submitted by sfcrazy
sfcrazy writes: During LinuxCon, Torvalds was full of praise for GNU GPL: "The GPL ensures that nobody is ever going to take advantage of your code. It will remain free and nobody can take that away from you. I think that's a big deal for community management."

"FSF [Free Software Foundation] and I don't have a loving relationship, but I love GPL v2," said Torvalds. "I really think the license has been one of the defining factors in the success of Linux because it enforced that you have to give back, which meant that the fragmentation has never been something that has been viable from a technical standpoint."

And he things BSD licence is bad for everyone: "Over the years, I've become convinced that the BSD license is great for code you don't care about," Torvalds said.

Submission + - Linux is the largest software development project on the planet: Greg K-H (cio.com) 1

Submitted by sfcrazy
sfcrazy writes: Greg Kroah-Hartmant, the Linux superstar, delivered a keynote at CoreOS Fest where he gave some impressive details on how massive is the Linux project. Kroah-Hartman said the latest release (4.5) made two months ago contains over 21 million lines of code. More impressive than the amount of code, and what truly makes Linux the world's largest software project is the fact that last year around 4,000 developers and at least 440 different companies that contributed to the kernel. Kroah-Hartman said, “It's the largest software development project ever, in the history of computing — by the number of people using it, developing it, and now using it, and the number of companies involved. It's a huge number of people.”

Submission + - A new KDE distribution will be announced at FOSDEM (cio.com)

Submitted by sfcrazy
sfcrazy writes: Jonathan is going to announce a new project at FOSDEM that brings KDE experience to user. There is Fedora that offers latest from Gnome but there is no such distro that offers the same level of integration with KDE software; yes there is openSUSE but it offers KDE as an option. So Kubuntu based KDE neon is a project to give KDE users and contributors a way to get KDE’s desktop software while it’s still fresh. It’ll be providing packages of the latest KDE software so users can install it and stay up to date on a stable base.

Submission + - Collabra, ownCloud announces LibreOffice Online (itworld.com)

Submitted by sfcrazy
sfcrazy writes: ITWorld reports that Collabora Productivity, a UK-based consulting company has collaborated with ownCloud Inc. to release a developer edition of online LibreOffice, which they call CODE (Collabora Online Development Edition).

The site further reported, The office suite implementation runs on ownCloud server. That’s where all the processing and heavy lifting is done. The rendering happens at the client side. Currently there are three apps: writer (equivalent to MS Word), spreadsheet (Excel) and presentation (PowerPoint). At the moment users can create new documents and edit them. Other functionality, such as collaborative editing, is in the pipeline.

Submission + - XPRIZE's Jono Bacon On Leaving Open Source and the Next Great Challenge (itworld.com)

Submitted by itwbennett
itwbennett writes: After just under 8 years at Canonical where he was Community Manager of Ubuntu, Jono Bacon left in search of a new challenge. Now, a year and a half into his tenure at the XPRIZE Foundation as Senior Director of Community, Bacon reflects on the changing nature of community and how he is working to bring the 'anybody can play a role in a bigger picture' aspect of open source to 'solve the grand challenges facing humanity.'

Submission + - Confirmed: Plex is coming to Apple TV (itworld.com)

Submitted by sfcrazy
sfcrazy writes: Yesterday Apple announced that it is turning Apple TV into a platform, opening it up for third party developers. They have already published the beta of tvOS and tvOS SDK, which developers can play with. Which means Plex is now a possibility on Apple TV. The founder of Plex said, “There is no question we will be able to offer Plex on the platform. There are multiple ways to go about it, based on the tvOS SDK we now have access to. We are now evaluating the best path for Plex and will begin work in earnest once we have evaluated the options. The ability to access great and proven iOS frameworks on the device is great for developers like us — we know the stuff is solid and will perform really well. Our goal is to enable people to enjoy Plex on the hardware platforms of their choice, and there is no doubt this will be a top platform for us.”

Submission + - Not in my ZIPCODE: Fracking increases hospital visits (plos.org)

Submitted by Michael Tiemann
Michael Tiemann writes: An article published in PLOS One finds increased hospital admissions significantly correlated to living in the same ZIP CODE as active fracking sites. The data comes from three counties in Pennsylvania, whose ZIP CODEs mostly had no fracking sites in 2007 and transitioned to a majority of ZIP CODEs with at least one fracking site. While the statistical and medical data are compelling, and speak to a significant correlation, the graphical and informational figures flunk every Tufte test, which is unfortunate. Nevertheless, with open data and Creative Commons licensing, the paper could be rewritten to provide a more compelling explanation about the dangers of fracking to people who live within its vicinity, and perhaps motivate more stringent regulations to protect them from both immediate and long-term harm.

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