Linux Lite has released a testing version of their upcoming v5.0. The first release candidate (rc1) of Linux Lite 5.0 is the most feature-rich and complete Linux Lite release till now. So, let’s take a look at the list of new changes that’ll ultimately ship with final v5.0.
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As hospitals in US faced ventilator shortages amid the COVID-19 pandemic, in addition to companies utilizing their resources to manufacture ventilators, groups of engineers, physicians and other experts at universities around the country also banded together to figure out how to make or re-work ventilators — at a super low cost.
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Philadelphia-based Fishtown Analytics, the company behind the popular open-source data engineering tool dbt, has raised a $12.9 million Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz, with the firm’s general partner Martin Casado joining the company’s board. The company plans to expand the team from 25 to 50 employees in 2020.
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With big tech players like Amazon and IBM focused on open source as an enabler of strong cloud solutions, it may seem like the technology is limited to the big leagues, yet small to midsize businesses are slowly starting to throw their hats in the open source ring.
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Huawei has has officially made MindSpore open source, and in doing so has provided the open source community with an invaluable tool for deep learning. The all-scenario MindSpore has cloud-edge-device collaboration, lower entry barriers to development, and efficient distributed parallel computing. So how exactly will MindSpore change the AI world?
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Gradle, an open source build tool, can enable the automation of software building and delivery with a high level of efficiency. It helps you write in Java, C++, or just about any language you choose. Here’s how to install Gradle on a data center Linux server for project build automation.
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Google is finally expanding reach of its Anthos hybrid-cloud platform into competing clouds with an initial multi-cloud push into AWS and plans to tap into Microsoft Azure. This cross-cloud management is possible because of the Kubernetes layer that has become a common infrastructure substrate option across nearly all cloud platforms.
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Created by a visiting postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University, Matteo Zallio, ‘handy’ is a multipurpose tool that provides a physical barrier between our hands and surfaces. The idea behind ‘handy’ is to offer an open source response to combating the virus, reportedly known to last on some surfaces for days.
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AWS and Facebook today announced two new open-source projects around PyTorch, the popular open-source machine learning framework. While TorchServe, a model-serving framework for PyTorch, will make it easier for developers to put their models into production, TorchElastic will help developers easily build fault-tolerant training jobs on Kubernetes clusters.
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