BBC is reporting that a team of engineers from Colombia is testing ventilators built using open source single-board computer platform Raspberry Pi. The engineer behind the effort, Marco Mascorro, reportedly has no prior experience with medical equipment. Mascorro has built the device using commodity hardware that could be found at local stores.
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Microsoft announced that Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2) will be generally available in Windows 10, version 2004. WSL2 was released into the Insider Program last year. With the move to general availability, WSL2 can now be automatically updated via standard Windows Updates.
[Source: InfoQ.com]
Linus Torvalds has announced version 5.7rc1 of the Linux kernel, and a shout-out from the Linux kernel technical advisory board in case any maintainers have hit coronavirus-related complications. There’s no immediately obvious evidence that kernel development or maintenance has been impacted by the virus pandemic. Indeed, Torvalds suggested that 5.7rc1 may be in decent shape thanks to the COVID-19 bio-nasty.
[Source: The Register]
ASUS has released a new budget graphics card that could actually be great for those wanting to use the open-source NVIDIA (Nouveau) driver stack on Linux.
ASUS’ newest offering is the GT710-4H-SL-2GD5, yes, a NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 based graphics card… The GT 710 debuted back in January 2016 and based on the Kepler architecture. While several generations old, this low-end, low-priced graphics card actually is a win for those Nouveau users with Kepler currently being the last NVIDIA GPU generation with good open-source support: no firmware binaries are needed for hardware initialization and Kepler GPUs can re-clock to their optimal clock frequencies, albeit re-clocking to the optimal performance state needs to be done manually via the command-line.
[Source: Phoronix]
As we struggle to get a grip on exactly how COVID-19 makes us ill and what we can do about it, researchers have created over 50,000 articles. That’s a lot of information! So, how do you make sense of it all? Verizon Media is doing it by using Vespa. This is an open-source, big data processing program to create a coronavirus academic research search engine: CORD-19 Search.
[Source: ZDNet]
Most every Windows admin is very familiar with PowerShell. Everyone else might not know about this tool. If you’re of the latter category, know that PowerShell is a task-based command-line shell and scripting language that was built with .NET. With PowerShell, you can easily automate tasks for the management of operating systems and much more.
At one point, PowerShell was only available for MS Windows. Now, however, this admin tool can be installed and used on Linux. Jack Wallen shows you how to install PowerShell on Ubuntu Server 18.04.
[Source: TechRepublic]
Intel’s open-source teams have been issuing a slew of new packages in recent days. Among the notable Intel open-source packages crossing my radar in recent days include: OpenVKL 0.9 – Various VDB improvements, build system updates, various fixes, a variety of internal API changes, and also providing reference binaries now for Linux / macOS / Windows. This release also fixes an issue I had with OpenVKL for the last time I tried using it as a benchmark, so there is now also an OpenVKL test profile and we will be using it in our future benchmark articles where relevant.
oneDNN 1.3 – Formerly known as DNNL and before that MKL-DNN, this deep learning library has a variety of performance optimizations including prepping for Intel “Cooper Lake” Xeons. There is also performance improvements as already outlined. Our test profile for it has also been updated in preparation for future CPUs.
[Source: Phoronix]
System76 is banging away on designing its own laptop and keyboards from scratch, but that final product could be years away. Thankfully the Linux hardware manufacturer has plenty of other systems to fill the void. The Lemur Pro — launching today — is the latest laptop in the company’s portfolio, and it looks like the sleekest one yet.
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As the Cloud Foundry Foundation (CFF) sees leadership changes at the top, it’s not just about Abby Kearns moving on to another executive position and CTO Chip Childers stepping into the executive director role. Paul Fazzone, SVP Tanzu R&D at VMware, has also been named Chairman of the Board of Directors.
“This next chapter for Cloud Foundry will be a shift forward in focusing on evolving the technology to a Kubernetes-based platform and supporting the diverse set of contributors who will make that outcome possible,” said Fazzone. “In my new role as Chairman of the Board, I look forward to helping guide the Foundation toward its goal of expanding and bolstering the ecosystem, its community and its core of users.”
[Source: TFiR]
Cybersecurity firm Sophos announced today that it has open-sourced the Sandboxie Windows sandbox-based isolation utility 15 years after it was released.
“We are thrilled to give the code to the community,” Sophos Director of Product Marketing Seth Geftic said. “The Sandboxie tool has been built on many years of highly-skilled developer work and is an example of how to integrate with Windows at a very low level. The Sandboxie user base represents some of the most passionate, forward-thinking, and knowledgeable members of the security community, and we hope this announcement will spawn a fresh wave of ideas and use cases.”
[Source: BleepingComputer]
