GNU/Linux Devices and Open Hardware

• FreeMesh is a $150 open source mesh WiFi system (1 router + 2 nodes)

  Mesh WiFi systems have taken off in the last few years, with pretty much every company that makes routers offering a mesh option or two. But they tend to be on the pricey side, since you typically have to buy two or more devices to get the most out of a mesh system. And like most routers, they tend to run proprietary software. FreeMesh is designed to be an open source, relatively inexpensive alternative. For $150 you can pick up a FreeMesh WiFi router and 2 nodes that run an open source operating system based on OpenWRT.

• Onion Omega2 Dash Enables Touch-based UI’s, Features Omega2S WiFi Module (Crowdfunding)

  Onion, the team behind the Omega2 series self-styled computing modules has launched the Omega2 Dash a self-contained Omega2S module with a touchscreen.

• Stackable Open Source 3D Printer Enclosure

  One of the unfortunate realities of desktop FDM 3D printing is that environmental factors such as ambient temperature and humidity can have a big impact on your results. Even with the exact same settings, a part that printed beautifully in the summer can warp right off the bed during the winter months. The solution is a temperature-controlled enclosure, but that can be a daunting project without some guidance. Luckily, [Jay Doscher] has spent the last few months designing a very impressive enclosure that he’s released to the community as open source.

• Open-Source Satellite Propulsion Hack Chat

  When you look back on the development history of any technology, it’s clear that the successful products eventually reach an inflection point, the boundary between when it was a niche product and when it seems everyone has one. Take 3D-printers, for instance; for years you needed to build one if you wanted one, but now you can buy them in the grocery store.

• Codasip partners with Western Digital on open‑source processors

  A supplier of configurable RISC-V embedded processor IP, Codasip GmbH announced it has joined forces with Western Digital Corp. to become the preferred provider of hardware implementation packages and expert technical support for users of Western Digital’s SweRV Core EH1, a RISC-V core currently available to the open-source community and further supported by the open-source development organization CHIPS Alliance. CHIPS Alliance is a barrier free environment which allows collaboration for open-source software and hardware code. The SweRV Core EH1 is a 32-bit, 2-way superscalar, 9-stage pipeline core introduced earlier this year by Western Digital, a leader in data infrastructure. With performance of up to 4.9 CoreMark/MHz and a small footprint, it offers compelling capabilities for embedded devices supporting data-intensive edge applications, such as storage controllers, industrial IoT, real-time analytics in surveillance systems, and other smart systems. The power-efficient design also offers clock speeds of up to 1.8 GHz on a 28nm CMOS process technology.

• Codasip Teams Up with Western Digital to Support Adoption of Open-Source Processors

  The SweRV Core EH1 is a 32-bit, 2-way superscalar, 9-stage pipeline core introduced earlier this year by Western Digital, a leader in data infrastructure. With performance of up to 4.9 CoreMark/MHz and a small footprint, it offers compelling capabilities for embedded devices supporting data-intensive edge applications, such as storage controllers, industrial IoT, real-time analytics in surveillance systems, and other smart systems. The power-efficient design also offers clock speeds of up to 1.8 GHz on a 28nm CMOS process technology.

• CutiePi open source tablet crowdfunding campaign in the works, open source design files already available

  The CutiePi is a tablet powered by a Raspberry Pi Computer Module 3 Lite. It’s designed to run Linux-based software such as Raspbian, and the design of the tablet is also open source. First revealed earlier this year, the hardware and software are a little closer to final at this point — the CutiePi developers have posted some pictures and a video showing the custom CutiePi printed circuit board in action, and the design files are all available at github for anyone who wants to try manufacturing their own PCB and assembling their own tablet.

• Bangle.js open source smartwatch hands on

  After a successful crowdfunding campaign the fantastic open source smartwatch which is completely hacker bore and programmable has now made the jump from concept to production. If you missed out on the Kickstarter campaign the Bangle.js smartwatch is now available to pre-order from the Espruino shop priced at £70 or approximately $92.

• CORE-V Chassis SoC open source project calls for participation

  With the CORE-V Chassis project, the recently formed OpenHW Group aims to tape out a heterogeneous multi-core processor evaluation SoC, capable of running the Linux operating system during the 2nd half of 2020. The CORE-V Chassis will see a CV64A 64-bit core running alongside a CV32E 32-bit coprocessor core. Based on the proven NXP iMX platform, the resulting CORE-V Chassis evaluation SoC will also feature 3D and 2D GPUs, MIPI-DSI and CSI display and camera I/O, hardware security blocks, PCIe connectivity, a GigE MAC, USB 2.0 interfaces, support for (LP)DDR4, and multiple SDIO interfaces, along with a wide range of further peripheral blocks. The 64-bit CV64A core in th

• Cobham Introduces Two New Open Source Processor IP Cores

  Cobham Advanced Electronic Solutions revealed Thursday that it has introduced two new offerings to its Cobham Gaisler family of Open Source IP Cores. The new LEON5 IP core implements the SPARC V8 32-bit Instruction Set Architecture (ISA), a 32-bit architecture. And Cobham’s new NOEL-V supports RISC-V, an open, free ISA that enables processor innovation through open standard collaboration. NOEL-V is Cobham’s initial RISC-V solution and the company plans to introduce a range of RISC-V offerings.

• Cobham Unveils New Open Source Processor IP Cores

  Cobham Advanced Electronic Solutions announced today that it has introduced two new offerings to its Cobham Gaisler family of Open Source IP Cores. The new LEON5 IP core implements the SPARC V8 32-bit Instruction Set Architecture (ISA), a 32-bit architecture. Based on VHDL, Cobham’s LEON5 super-scalar dual-issue processor provides software backward compatibility with previous generation LEON processors, while increasing performance both in terms of maximum achievable operating frequency and amount of computations performed per system clock cycle. Cobham’s new NOEL-V supports RISC-V, an open, free ISA that enables a new era of processor innovation through open standard collaboration. Cobham, a Gold-Level Member of the RISC-V Foundation, plans to introduce a wide range of RISC-V offerings. NOEL-V, Cobham’s initial RISC-V solution, is a RV64GC compliant processor Intellectual Property (IP) core, a 64-bit architecture, written in VHDL. Both of Cobham’s new Processor IP Cores will be available for initial download into Xilinx UltraSCALE FPGAs.

FOSS Entrapment (Microsoft GitHub, Proprietary)

• US tech group GitHub keen to open subsidiary in China [Ed: When Google does anything at all in China the media loses its mind! But Microsoft? No, that's considered normal. Why the double standard?]

• GitHub Looks to Open Subsidiary in China

• BMW Group shares on GitHub AI algorithms used in production

• Mt Pelerin Introduces BRIDGE v2.0, the Open Source Infrastructure for Digital Securities

  Originally released in 2018 by Swiss fintech Mt Pelerin, BRIDGE is an open source software to create and manage tokenized securities (tokens representing ownership of underlying assets) on public blockchains. With advanced compliance management features, BRIDGE enables today the issuance, distribution and trading of these digital assets within the existing regulatory frameworks.

• Dynatrace Paves the Way to the Autonomous Cloud With Keptn

• Dynatrace’s open source control plane simplifies IT’s journey to NoOps for cloud native environments

  Dynatrace announced Keptn, an open source pluggable control plane to advance the industry movement toward autonomous clouds. Keptn provides the automation and orchestration of the processes and tools needed for continuous delivery and automated operations for cloud native environments. To combat the growing gap between constrained IT resources and accelerating cloud scale and complexity, automation and AI have become critical weapons for IT to maintain control. However, where to start and how to map out a successful path to NoOps has been a barrier for many IT organizations. “Keptn is an outcome of a belief and program we have been working on for years,” said John Van Siclen, CEO of Dynatrace.

• Crater: Open-Source Laravel Invoicing App

  Crater also provides a mobile app that works with your self-hosted Crater app. At the time of writing, Crater has an Android app with an iOS version in the works.

Servers: Kubernetes, CentOS in HPC and Red Hat's Self-Promotion

• Kubernetes-Hungry Businesses Recruit To Fill Their Skill Gaps At KubeCon

• Fairwinds navigates straighter open course towards SaaS-y Kubernetes

  Cloud-native infrastructure company Fairwinds recently launched a SaaS product for DevOps teams so that they can manage multiple Kubernetes clusters. The almost-eponymously named called Fairwinds Insights, uses an extensible architecture and has been launched with a curated set of open source security, reliability and auditing tools.  The initial suite of tools includes Fairwinds Polaris, Fairwinds Goldilocks and Aqua Security’s Kube-hunter.

• HPC Open Source Web Portals now Offered to Enterprise by Nor-Tech

• How open source can streamline the application development process

• Why Do Businesses Need Red Hat?

  A vast number of Internet servers at present are powered by solutions that are created by Red Hat, Inc. It has attracted a wide variety of loyal corporate clients from all over the globe by leveraging the massive potential of Linux, OpenStack, and different state-of-the-art tools. Apart from Red Hat’s industry dominance, here are a few advantages of varied open-source solutions of Red Hat and the well-oiled support services of different companies.