today's leftovers

• Work Is Underway To Upstream LLVM Clang's CUDA Toolchain For AMDGPU/HIP

  A long available tool has been AMD's ROCm HIP that allows converting CUDA code to portable C++ code that in turn can be executed on Radeon GPUs. There is now work on getting the upstream LLVM Clang compiler's CUDA toolchain support to also support HIP. HIP's hipify tool can convert CUDA code to HIP for execution on NVIDIA/AMD GPUs. HIP also consists of a portable C++ language for execution across GPU vendors. Those not familiar with HIP can learn more via its ROCm tool repository. What initially got me digging into the LLVM/Clang upstreaming work was seeing on Thursday: [CUDA] Add amdgpu sub archs. Clang's CUDA code now not only listing NVIDIA GPU micro-architectures but also the Radeon GPU generations backed by the LLVM AMDGPU compiler back-end.

• NVIDIA Xavier Support Being Brought Up With Linux 4.17, Other New ARM Boards Too

  There's a lot of ARM work that has built up for the Linux 4.17 development cycle.

• Connecting to a VPN automatically when not at home

• Improving GStreamer performance on a high number of network streams by sharing threads between elements with Rust’s tokio crate

  For one of our customers at Centricular we were working on a quite interesting project. Their use-case was basically to receive an as-high-as-possible number of audio RTP streams over UDP, transcode them, and then send them out via UDP again. Due to how GStreamer usually works, they were running into some performance issues.

• Subutai Blockchain Router v2.0, NixOS New Release, Slimbook Curve and More

  NixOS released version 18.03 "Impala" yesterday. Highlights include "core version changes: linux: 4.9 -> 4.14, glibc: 2.25 -> 2.26, gcc: 6 -> 7, systemd: 234 -> 237"; "desktop version changes: gnome: 3.24 -> 3.26, (KDE) plasma-desktop: 5.10 -> 5.12"; the Nix package manager now defaults to 2.0 and more.

• NixOS 18.03 Switches To Linux 4.14, GCC 7 & Other Package Updates

  For fans of the NixOS Linux distribution that makes use of the Nix package manager, version 18.03 "Impala" is now available.

• Red Hat, Inc., (NYSE: RHT) – Hot Stock’s Highlights

• Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT) – P/E to Consider

• Red Hat Inc. (RHT) Dips 3.14% for April 02

• Technical Indicators under Consideration – Red Hat Inc (NYSE: RHT)

• My Free Software Activities in March 2018

• Rugged 3.5-inch SBC gives you choice of Kaby or Skylake U-series

  IEI’s 3.5-inch “Wafer-ULT3/ULT4” SBC runs on Intel 6th or 7th Gen Core U-series CPUs, and offers triple display support, SATA III, 2x GbE, 4x USB 3.0, 2x mini-PCIe, and -20 to 60°C support.

• First traces of the Google Pixel 3 show up in AOSP with hints at improved networking

• First Google Pixel 3 detail leaked — but what does it mean?

• Records breaches cost US$8bn, ransomware the main culprit

  The number of records breached dropped nearly 25% globally in 2017, but ransomware breaches still cost organisations US$8 billion, with human error responsible for two-thirds of compromised records.

OSS Leftovers

• Huawei Unveils Open Source DMM Project That Redesigns the Protocol Stack Container in Networking

  At the 2018 Open Networking Summit North America, Huawei introduced the new Dual Modes, Multi-Protocols, Multi-Instances (DMM) open source project—a protocol stack framework—which elevates different protocol stacks for networking application developers. DMM is a Fast Data Project and a part of the FD.io community, which is tailored for open source software and aims to provide high-performance networking solutions. Leveraging Huawei's expertise in providing cost-effective network solutions to customers, DMM will make it possible to use diverse protocol stacks for different apps, as well as simplify the process of developing a new protocol stack. This new framework will provide the enterprise industry with a more open, pluralistic, and reliable networking solution.

• FOSSASIA experience

  I spend most of my time at the Debian booth. People swing by the booth and they talked about their experience with Debian. It was fun to meet them all. Prior to the conference I created a wiki page to coordinate Debian booth at exhibition which really helped. I met three Debian Developers - Chow Loong Jin (hyperair), Andrew Lee 李健秋 (ajqlee) and Héctor Orón Martínez (zumbi). Andrew Lee and zumbi also volunteered at Debian booth from time to time along with Balasankar ‘balu’ C (balasankarc). Hyperair was sitting at HackerspaceSG booth, just two booth across from us.

• uBlock Origin is Back-to-Back March Addonness Champion

  It’s been three weeks and we’ve almost run out of sports metaphors. We’re happy to announce that after three rounds and thousands of votes you have crowned uBlock Origin March Addonness champion for the second year in a row!

• Friday Free Software Directory IRC meetup time: April 6th starting at 12:00 p.m. EDT/16:00 UTC

• Guix & reproducible builds at LibrePlanet 2018

  LibrePlanet, the yearly free software conference organized by the Free Software Foundation, took place a week ago. Among the many great talks and workshops, David Thompson, a core Guix developer also working as a DevOps, presented many aspects of Guix and GuixSD in his talk, Practical, verifiable software freedom with GuixSD (video, slides).

• How to create an impact map for teams

  Give impact mapping a try and let us know how it works for you. You can use any mind map software to create your first impact map, but you might prefer to start with pen and paper and sticky notes, or even a nice clean whiteboard.

• Is Python a Good Choice for Entrerprise Projects?

  If you follow me for a long time, you know I've been doing Python for more than ten years now and even wrote two books about it. So while I'm obviously biased, and before writing a reply, I would also like to take a step back and reassure you, dear reader, that I've used plenty of other programming languages those last 20 years: Perl, C, PHP, Lua, Lisp, Java, etc. I've built tiny to big projects with some of them, and I consider that Lisp is the best programming language.

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  Mainstream academia embraces open source hardware

  

  Twenty years ago, even staunch proponents of free and open source software like Richard Stallman questioned the social imperative for free hardware designs. Academics had barely started to consider the concept; the number of papers coming out annually on the topic were less than could be counted on someone's fingers.

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