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5 reasons to use Linux in 2020

opensource.com - Mon, 11/02/2020 - 16:02

Some of the best technology is a moving target. When technology stagnates, society tends to outpace and outgrow it. Linux, the widely used open source operating system (OS), is a foundational technology and the basis for some of the most progressive modern computing ideas. So, while it's startlingly unchanged after three decades of development, it also allows adaptation.


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4 reasons why JavaScript is so popular

opensource.com - Mon, 11/02/2020 - 16:01

As this chart from GitHub's State of the Octoverse report shows, JavaScript has consistently been most popular programming language based on the number of contributors to projects on GitHub.


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Understand your Python code with this open source visualization tool

opensource.com - Mon, 11/02/2020 - 16:01

It's challenging to understand your Python project as it gets larger and more complex. Even when you write the entire project, it's impossible to know how it works fully. Debugging and profiling your code is essential to better understanding it.


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Benchmarking The Raspberry Pi 400 - A Raspberry Pi Keyboard Computer

Phoronix - Mon, 11/02/2020 - 16:00
The Raspberry Pi Foundation is today announcing a new and unexpected single board computer: the Raspberry Pi 400. It's more of a single-keyboard computer that offers slightly higher performance than the Raspberry Pi 4.

Best Practices for Deploying Hadoop Server on CentOS/RHEL 7 – Part 1

Tecmint - Mon, 11/02/2020 - 14:52

In this series of articles, we are going to cover the entire Cloudera Hadoop Cluster Building building with Vendor and Industrial recommended best practices. Part 1: Best Practices for Deploying Hadoop Server on CentOS/RHEL

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Kodi 19 Alpha 3 Brings Intel Integer Scaling Support For Pixel Art Games

Phoronix - Mon, 11/02/2020 - 13:08
The third alpha release of Kodi 19 "Matrix" was released on Sunday for this popular multi-platform HTPC software...

Red Hat Success Stories: Beyond the technology solutions

Red Hat News - Mon, 11/02/2020 - 13:00

We understand that digital transformation isn’t just about technology — it’s also about the process and people. How will your team get trained? How do you implement new business models to execute more rapid development cycles? And how will modernization help employers meet the needs of their employees? 

Linux 5.10-rc2 Released Following The Intel MIC Removal

Phoronix - Mon, 11/02/2020 - 07:10
The second weekly release candidate to Linux 5.10 is now available for testing...

Trinity Desktop 14.0.9 Is The Latest For This Decade-Old KDE 3.5 Fork

Phoronix - Mon, 11/02/2020 - 02:04
For those still fond of the once venerable KDE 3.5 desktop, the Trinity Desktop Environment is still maintaining its KDE 3.5 fork after more than one decade. Trinity Desktop R14.0.9 debuted today with some additional applications now included and other updates...

Intel's Abandoned "Many Integrated Core" Architecture Being Removed With Linux 5.10

Phoronix - Sun, 11/01/2020 - 22:06
While Linux 5.10-rc2 is coming later today and a week past the merge window, a notable late pull request sent in this morning by Greg Kroah-Hartman is removing the Intel MIC (Many Integrated Core) architecture drivers, a.k.a. Xeon Phi...

IO_uring Passthrough For KVM Guests Is Yielding Fantastic Results

Phoronix - Sun, 11/01/2020 - 18:47
At the Linux Foundation's KVM Forum 2020 this week, Stefano Garzarella of Red Hat presented on the possibility of speeding up virtual machine I/O performance by sharing the host's IO_uring queues with guests. In doing so the virtual machines have near bare-metal performance with the proposed patches...

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