A Peacetime Boom Rarlab
The Peacetime CEO “sets big, hairy, audacious goals,” he says. The Wartime CEO “is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit. June 1949 to August 1956. A Peacetime Boom. The first bull market after World War II remains one of the most impressive. With Europe a shambles, the American economy took off.
Contents. Server. GoDaddy announced a new OpenStack-powered public cloud service. The new service benefits from the Bitnami partnership for applications. GoDaddy, one of the largest domain registrars and shared hosting providers, is jumping into the cloud market with a new OpenStack-powered public cloud service.
Not even VMware invaded the data center as quickly as open source container supplier Docker has in its first three years. In an interview with InformationWeek, CEO Ben Golub offers his vision for the future. Kernel Space. Earlier today, March 22, 2016, kernel developer Zefan Li had the pleasure of announcing the immediate availability for download of a new maintenance release for the stable, long-term supported Linux 3.4 kernel branch. The portability of the util-linux package is not our primary goal, but in many cases port code to the another libc or another operation system (if possible) is a way how to detect code disadvantages, obsolete functions etc. V2.28 is possible to compile on OSX and improved has been also support for kFreeBSD and GNU Hurd (of course you cannot compile Linux specific stuff, but build-system is smart enough to automatically disable utils irrelevant for your OS). We are a little more than half-way through the Linux 4.6 kernel merge window so here’s a quick look at the new changes and features that have made it into the code-base for this next major kernel release.
Graphics Stack. Benchmarks. While still working on some AMD vs. NVIDIA Vulkan Linux driver benchmarks using AMD’s new hybrid driver with Vulkan support, for your viewing pleasure this morning are some benchmarks comparing the new AMD GPU-PRO driver with its binary OpenGL driver against the pure open-source driver stack with the Ubuntu 16.04 AMDGPU driver and RadeonSI Gallium3D from Mesa 11.2 + LLVM 3.8. Applications. This Perl (core) module provides a variety of functions and tools for manipulating ANSI color and text style escape sequences.
A Peacetime Boom Rarlabs
This is a minor bug fix release of the Perl POD translators for text and man pages. It fixes a warning about use of uninitialized variables when run on a Perl module in the current directory, cleans up a confusing warning during the Perl core build, and fixes a long-standing bug in turning off italic font in =item tags in a C block. Instructionals/Technical. Wine or Emulation. Today, March 21, 2016, the Wine Staging team has announced the release and immediate availability for download of Wine Staging 1.9.6, based on the recently released Wine 1.9.6 development snapshot. The Wine-Staging 1.9.6 release adds an experimental Vulkan wrapper for running Vulkan Windows binaries on Linux.
CodeWeavers got their Wine-based CrossOver software running on Android, but before getting too excited, it’s x86 Android. Games.
But there is something weird about these figures. For a start it does not include Steam’s own Linux based operating system as being Linux.
In 2013, Valve announced there were over 65 million SteamOS users around the world. In February 2015, Valve announced there were over 125 million active SteamOS users worldwide. According to Gaming on Linux the figures are pants and Linux use amongst gamers is healthy. In fact there should be between 160 – 190 million accounts as of March 2016. Desktop Environments/WMs.
GNOME Desktop/GTK. The highly anticipated GNOME 3.20 desktop environment is about to be released in a couple of days, and we can’t help but notice that many of its core components and apps are being updated these days to version 3.20.0. We did it again, the Igalia WebKit team is pleased to announce a new stable release of WebKitGTK+, with a bunch of bugs fixed, some new API bits and many other improvements.
I’m going to talk here about some of the most important changes, but as usual you have more information in the NEWS file. One of the new nice features of Maps 3.20 is the ability of loading map layers in GeoJSON, KML, and GPX formats. GTK+ 3.20 was released on Monday as the toolkit empowering the GNOME 3.20 desktop release this week. GTK+ 3.20 brings much-improved Wayland support, a lot of CSS canges, support for reading.XCompose files, support for using native file choosers on Windows, a high contrast inverse theme, and a variety of other changes. New Releases. The developers behind the OpenELEC Linux operating system for embedded device designed to act as a media center, have announced the release of the first Beta build of OpenELEC 7.0.
Arch Family. Today, March 22, 2016, the Manjaro development team proudly announced the general availability of a new stable update for the Manjaro Linux 15.12 (Capella) computer operating system.
With today’s update, Manjaro Linux 15.12 users will receive the recently released Linux 4.5 kernel, along with the KDE Applications 15.12.3 software suite for the KDE Plasma 5.5.5 desktop environment, and of course, updates to many of the core components and applications. Red Hat Family.
Some people call patience a virtue. To me, it’s the single toughest lesson I had to learn when joining an open organization. It dawned on me recently in the middle of a class discussion with a group of MBA students at North Carolina State University. When I visited their classroom a few weeks ago to chat about their assigned reading, The Open Organization, I was overwhelmed (but also overjoyed!) by the number of insightful questions the students posed during my short time with them.
But one in particular stuck with me long after I left. “What was the hardest thing you had to learn,” one student asked me, “when you started working at Red Hat?”. Fedora. Google Summer of Code is a yearly program ran by Google that focuses on bringing more students into open source software development. Students work with an open source organization over a three month period during their break from school. Google has a more comprehensive break-down of how the program works on their website. Fedora is happy to announce that for the tenth year, we are participating in Google Summer of Code 2016.
Debian Family.