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Raspberry Pi OS Raspbian Improves Raspberry Pi 4 Support, Adds Many Improvements

“Raspberry Pi Foundation released a new version of the official Raspberry Pi operating system, Raspbian, to improve support for the latest Raspberry Pi 4 computer, as well as to add many other enhancements and updated components. Raspbian 2019-09-26 images are …

Arduino 1.8.10 has been released with improved accessibility

“Hey Arduiners, Today we are releasing IDE 1.8.10 and you should try it because it’s awesome! With the support of our incredible community, we’ve been improving a lot of (small and not so small) things. Besides …

Linux Kernel 5.3 Officially Released, Here’s What’s New

“Linus Torvalds announced today the release of the Linux 5.3 kernel series, a major that brings several new features, dozens of improvements, and updated drivers. Two months in the works and eight RC (Release Candidate) builds later, the final …

IBM Gives Away PowerPC; Goes Open Source - Want to Design Your Own 64-bit RISC Processor on the Cheap?

“Remember PowerPC? Nah, me neither. But now it can be yours. For free. Srsly. IBM has released the Power Architecture instruction set to the Linux Foundation, making it freely available to anyone who wants it. It’s a no-cost, royalty-free …

Linux Kernel 5.2 Officially Released, Here’s What’s New

“Linus Torvalds has announced today the release and general availability of the Linux 5.2 kernel series, a major release that adds several new features, updated drivers, and many improvements. After seven RCs (Release Candidates), the Linux 5.2 kernel …

Microsoft Alternatives project (MAlt)

“The Microsoft Alternatives project (MAlt) started a year ago to mitigate anticipated software license fee increases. MAlt’s objective is to put us back in control using open software. It is now time to present more widely this project and …

Microsoft and the BMW Group launch the Open Manufacturing Platform

“Companies are partners in a new initiative to drive open industrial IoT development and help grow a community to build future Industry 4.0 solutions Technology framework and open community to share smart factory solutions across the automotive and manufacturing …

News  Linux 5.1

Linux 5.1

“So it’s a bit later in the day than I usually do this, just because I was waffling about the release. Partly because I got some small pull requests today, but mostly just because I wasn’t looking forward …

Open Source Release coming for Microsoft’s Quantum Development Kit

“Our ambition is to make quantum computing more accessible so that developers can help solve some of the world’s most pressing challenges. The power to achieve that vision comes when every developer can collaborate, share code, and build upon …

Announcing the release of Fedora 30

“It seems like it was just six months ago that we announced Fedora 29, and here we are again. Today, we announce our next operating system release. Even though it went so quickly, a lot has happened in the last …