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Linux Foundation launches infrastructure-as-code
Linux Foundation announced that the OpenTofu project is coming under its wing. Previously code-named OpenTF, OpenTofu aims to create an open, community-driven successor to the Hashicorp Terraform infrastructure-as-code technology, under a neutral governance model. Infrastructure-as-code enables organizations to define how data center infrastructure should be configured and deployed in a repeatable, programmatic approach. In recent Read more
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EU fines Intel $400 M for blocking AMD access
The European Commission has fined Intel $400 million (€376 million) for hindering competitors’ access to the market through naked restrictions between 2002 and 2007. The fine comes after a long-running antitrust court battle dating back to 2009 when the Commission initially fined Intel a record $1.13 billion for abuse of dominance. While some of Intel’s Read more
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Meet MAmmoTH: A Series of Open-Source LLMs for General Math
Modern large language models (LLMs) rely heavily on mathematical reasoning, which is the primary focus of this work. There is a clear divide between closed-source and open-source LLMs, even with the recent progress in this area; closed-source models like GPT-4, PaLM-2, and Claude 2 dominate popular mathematical reasoning benchmarks like GSM8K and MATH, while open-source Read more
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‘Steam Deck and SteamOS are great for Linux as a whole’
By Liam Dawe – 22 September 2023 At the recent Open Source Summit Europe 2023, Alberto Garcia a software engineer at Igalia did a talk covering Valve, Steam Deck, SteamOS and how it all helps Linux as a whole. For people who understand Linux and open source, a lot of this would be pretty obvious Read more
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OS alt to github: ‘Gitness’
Since its launch in 2017, Harness, the software delivery platform founded by AppDynamics founder and CEO Jyoti Bansal, expanded from being continuous code deployment to covering continuous integration, feature flags, cloud cost management, security testing orchestration, chaos engineering and more. But even though it focused heavily on GitOps, it never offered its own Git repositories. Read more
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A Guide to Open Source Platform Engineering
Learn the steps to build a Kubernetes based, open source internal developer platform and why you should invest in platform engineering to beat ops sprawl. BILBAO — The rise of platform engineering in 2023 is part of a pendulum swinging back away from developer autonomy but not all the way back to Waterfall command and Read more
