Android Leftovers

• Samsung's Galaxy Note 8 could get squeezed by other Android rivals

• How to find out which Android phone you have

• How to adjust Do Not Disturb settings in Android Oreo

• Android Oreo updates: How to make sure your phone is always as great as possible

• Google's Android 8.0 Oreo has been served

• Google Touts Android Oreo's Tasty New Features

Graphics and Hardware: VC5 Gallium3D, RADV Vulkan Driver, and AMD Ryzen

• VC5 Gallium3D Driver Close To Merging To Mainline Mesa

  Broadcom's shiny new VC5 Gallium3D driver for supporting more modern graphics on future SoCs is close to merging to mainline Mesa. Details on VC5 are still scarce, such as when we'll see this new Broadcom graphics processor in SoCs/devices (hopefully future Raspberry Pis), but Eric Anholt continues developing this driver. VC5 does support OpenGL ES 3.0 and will also eventually be working on OpenCL and Vulkan support.

• More Vega/GFX9 Fixes Posted For RADV Vulkan Driver

  It's looking like it shouldn't be much longer before David Airlie has the RADV Mesa Vulkan driver working well on AMD's new Radeon RX Vega graphics cards.

• AMD Ryzen 3 CPUFreq Governor Benchmarks On Linux 4.13

  For those curious about the performance impact of the different CPUFreq governors on a low-end Ryzen 3 processor, here are some benchmarks. Using the Linux 4.13 Git kernel atop Ubuntu 17.04 with the AMD Ryzen 3 1200, I tested CPUFreq's ondemand, performance, powersave, schedutil, and conservative governors. As a reminder, Ubuntu defaults to CPUFreq's "ondemand" governor for AMD processors while the Intel CPUs using the P-State driver use "powersave" as their default.

• ASRock AB350 Pro4: A Decent, Linux-Friendly Ryzen Motherboard For As Low As $69 USD

OSS: PNNL, Robot Operating System, Databricks, pfSense and More

• New open-source software for analyzing intact proteins

  In analyzing over 3,000 proteoforms in two breast cancer subtypes, the PNNL authors saw that their new software tool found ten times more differentially expressed proteoforms compared to a recent top-down analysis using a different method.

• Guest Post: Building commercial open source robots, from prototype to production

  Developing any new robot and taking it to production is hard – even if you’re using the Robot Operating System (ROS) to help streamline development – so why make it even harder? I see numerous examples of robotics companies devoting everything to development and ignoring the important questions raised as they approach production. As soon as the commercial pressure is on, there is a tendency for businesses to just “ship what they have”, leaving the IoT market packed full of devices with hard-coded credentials, unencrypted development keys, various security vulnerabilities, and no update path.

• Databricks touts itself as an A.I. company in new $140 million financing round

  Eight months after announcing a $60 million venture round, the start-up has pulled in $140 million more and is now making sure it's seen as an artificial intelligence software developer. Tuesday's announcement of the financing contains 12 references to AI or artificial intelligence, up from zero in December.

• Databricks Raises $140M From Top VCs In Mission To Bring AI To 'The 99%'

  Just months after announcing a $60 million fundraise, the creators of popular open-source big project Apache Spark and their startup have dwarfed that amount with a massive new fundraise — and added a new buzzword to the mix.

• pfSense 2.4 Release Candidate Now Available

  Version 2.4 of the pfSense BSD-based firewall/router operating system is nearing and the release candidate is out this week for testing.

• 4 open principles for building a better startup

  But like all startups, we eventually needed to hire more people to help our organization grow. And that meant scaling our fast-paced, open, and collaborative culture to new colleagues. How were we going to do that?

• Oracle Looking to Move Java EE to Open Source Foundation

  Oracle is planning to move leadership and ongoing development of the Java EE platform to an open source foundation. The move will follow the next release, JEE 8, which is due out this summer. The company says they will continue to support Weblogic Server, which is built on JEE standards. In a blog post for the JEE Community, Oracle Java EE evangelist David Delabassee said that moving the platform to an open source foundation will be a way to change the governance process and bring benefits such as more agile processes and more flexible licensing. These are areas where development of Java EE has been seen as deficient when compared to other open source communities. The move will also include the test compatibility kit and reference implementations.

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