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Check free disk space in Linux with ncdu

opensource.com - Thu, 08/19/2021 - 15:02

Computer users tend to amass a lot of data over the years, whether it's important personal projects, digital photos, videos, music, or code repositories. While hard drives tend to be pretty big these days, sometimes you have to step back and take stock of what you're actually storing on your drives.


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Short option parsing using getopt in C

opensource.com - Thu, 08/19/2021 - 15:01

Writing a C program to process files is easy when you already know what files you'll operate on and what actions to take. If you "hard code" the filename into your program, or if your program is coded to do things only one way, then your program will always know what to do.

But you can make your program much more flexible if it can respond to the user every time the program runs. Let your user tell your program what files to use or how to do things differently. And for that, you need to read the command line.


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SDL2 Lands Long-Sought Geometry Render API

Phoronix - Thu, 08/19/2021 - 15:00
While not making it for last week's SDL 2.0.16 release, merged on Wednesday to the SDL2 development code is an "SDL_GeometryRender" interface that stems from feature requests going back nearly a decade for this graphics API independent triangle rendering API...

A guide to understanding your team's implicit values and needs

opensource.com - Thu, 08/19/2021 - 15:00

Culture matters in open organizations. But "culture" seems like such a large, complicated concept to address. How can we help open organization teams better understand it?


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Htop – An Interactive Process Viewer for Linux

Tecmint - Thu, 08/19/2021 - 13:31
The post Htop – An Interactive Process Viewer for Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

This article is the continuation of our Linux system monitoring series, today we’re talking about the most popular monitoring tool called htop, which is just reached version 3.0.5 and comes with some cool new

The post Htop – An Interactive Process Viewer for Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Custom CPU/GPU Fan Curve Support For Some ASUS Laptops On Linux

Phoronix - Thu, 08/19/2021 - 12:00
Independent developer Luke Jones continues making good progress on improving the "ASUS-WMI" driver for better ASUS laptop support on Linux...

MATE 1.26 Desktop Released With Some Wayland Support, Other Improvements

Phoronix - Thu, 08/19/2021 - 07:11
After one and a half years in development of MATE 1.26 as a fork of the GNOME 2 desktop components, this release is now available with initial Wayland support and more...

Intel Posts Linux Patches Bringing Up DisplayPort 2.0 - DG2 Alchemist To Support DP 2.0

Phoronix - Thu, 08/19/2021 - 02:30
It looks like 2022 is when we will start seeing DisplayPort 2.0 hardware broadly available... It was just earlier this week I wrote about AMD working on DisplayPort 2.0 for their open-source Radeon Linux driver and now coincidentally today Intel has begun their open-source Linux graphics driver enablement for DP 2.0...

Vulkan SC 1.0 Coming For "Safety Critical" Graphics / Compute

Phoronix - Thu, 08/19/2021 - 01:55
It's been over two years since The Khronos Group acknowledged they were working on safety critical Vulkan and now finally the 1.0 provisional release is approaching for this graphics/compute interface suitable for safety critical systems...

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