Today we are launching the new, redesigned Linux.com. It’s been a long journey since we first surveyed our loyal readers about possible new features. You enthusiastically and generously responded with all of the ways you love – and don’t love – the site. We’ve since taken that feedback and redesigned the site with numerous improvements.
Our goal was to make Linux.com a better experience for our readers:
easier to navigate
responsive to mobile devices
faster to load and page through
easier to filter for the content you want, by most popular, most comments, etc.
easier to read with a clean, clutter-free design.
You’ll also find many new features including threaded comments, the ability to filter content by keyword tags, and see related content. New personalized profiles also allow registered users to save articles for later viewing, follow comment threads, create and manage blog posts, and see a history of all of their contributions to the site.
In the time that it’s taken to launch the new site the use of open source software has grown and evolved considerably. Open source has become the new norm for software development. What started with Linux, the largest and most successful collaborative project in the history of computing, has now expanded to include technologies all the way up the stack.
The Linux Foundation, which brings us Linux.com, has become the place where a lot of open source development across industries is taking place. It aims to establish, build, and sustain the greatest shared technology resources of our time and support them for generations to come. Projects like Cloud Foundry, Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Core Infrastructure Initiative, Hyperledger, OpenDaylight, the Open Container Initiative, and many others, now have a home at The Linux Foundation.
As a result, Linux.com’s design and focus has evolved and expanded beyond Linux to include a whole host of open technologies. We will continue to provide the Linux information and tutorials you all love and broaden our coverage to topics where open source is quickly becoming the standard including networking, cloud computing, and DevOps.
We’ll also be featuring more blogs from experts inside and outside of The Linux Foundation who are knowledgeable in open source trends and best practices in a new category we’re calling “Open Source Pro.”
Our mission is to help inform and prepare open source professionals who are building the next generation of open technologies, using open source code, tools, and best practices. We want Linux.com to be your go-to resource for the latest in Linux and open source technology, careers, best practices, and industry trends.
To that end, the site we are launching today is a work in progress. We will continue to add features and adjust the content based on your testing and feedback.
We want to hear from you! Please send any feedback or report any bugs you may find on the new site to webteam@linux.com.
After being delayed a few weeks, the final release of the open-source Mesa 3D Graphics Library 11.2 arrived earlier today, April 4, 2016, for all GNU/Linux operating systems.
Collabora’s Emil Velikov was the one to give us the big news, and it looks like the changes are huge, including EGL, GLSL, GL, WGL, and OSMesa improvements, updates to the Intel i965, Nouveau, Radeon, SVGA, LLVM, and Virgl drivers, as well as enhancements to the OMX and VAAPI video backends.
Release highlights of Me… (read more)
Łukasz Zemczak of Canonical has just informed the community about the release date of the forthcoming OTA-10 software update for the Ubuntu mobile operating system.
Ubuntu Touch OTA-10 has been in development for quite some time now, and we covered its development cycle during the past month, during which we told you about some of the new features and improvements that the update would bring to all supported Ubuntu Phone devices, as well as the brand new Ubuntu Tablet.
One thing was missing … (read more)
Today Penguin Computing announced Open Compute Project (OCP)-based systems that reinforce both its continued collaboration with NVIDIA and new options in Penguin Computings Magna family of OpenPOWER-based servers. “Customers benefit when we partner with exceptional organizations like NVIDIA, the OpenPOWER Foundation and Open Compute Foundation in developing our systems, said Jussi Kukkonen, Director Product Management, Penguin Computing. An essential part of our mission is to provide customers with form factor flexibility, choice of architecture and peak performance, which are all hallmarks of Penguin Computing.
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We reported the other day that the Debian Project announced the availability of the fourth update in the stable Debian GNU/Linux 8 “Jessie” series, along with the Debian GNU/Linux 7.10 maintenance release.
Our initial report stated that there were no installation mediums or Live DVD ISO images available for download for either Debian GNU/Linux 8.4 “Jessie” or Debian GNU/Linux 7.10 “Wheezy” at the moment of the announcement because these new versions come mainly a… (read more)
The development cycle of the Slackware-based Zenwalk 8.0 Linux kernel-based operating system continues, and its maintainers have announced the release of the third Beta build.
Zenwalk 8.0 entered development in mid-January 2016 with the first Beta release, and early adopters were able to get their hands on the second Beta build during the first week of February. Now, approximately eight weeks later, we can test the third Beta of the upcoming operating system.
According to the release notes, … (read more)
The Manjaro Linux development team announced the general availability of the fourteenth update pack for the Manjaro Linux 15.12 (Capella) operating system.
With this update, Manjaro Linux 15.12 users will receive the latest KDE Plasma 5.6.1 desktop environment, Calamares 2.2 graphical installer, Octopi 0.8.1 graphical package manager, Qt 5.6 GUI toolkit, Budgie Desktop 10.2.5 desktop environment, numerous Linux kernels updates, a BlueZ bug fix, and improvements to the Menda GTK3 theme.
As us… (read more)
