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Intel Architecture Day 2021 & The Linux State

Phoronix - Thu, 08/19/2021 - 21:00
Intel this week hosted a virtual Architecture Day where they talked up their latest efforts from Alder Lake and Sapphire Rapids to their next-generation discrete graphics capabilities as well as other new offerings around IPUs and more. Here are the highlights from Intel Architecture Day 2021 and with a particular focus from our Linux angle.

Canonical + DFI Pair Up For An "Industrial Pi" Powered By AMD & Ubuntu

Phoronix - Thu, 08/19/2021 - 19:55
Many will recall DFI motherboards from close to two decades ago for their wildly colored "LANParty" motherboards but in recent years the company has been focusing on IoT and industrial hardware where, of course, Linux has much relevance. DFI and Canonical today announced an AMD-powered Ubuntu-loaded "industrial Pi" single board computer...

LibreOffice 7.2 Community Released For This Leading Open-Source Office Suite

Phoronix - Thu, 08/19/2021 - 19:00
LibreOffice 7.2 Community is out today as the newest version of this widely-used, open-source, cross-platform office suite...

AMD To Optimize C3 Entry On Linux By Finally Skipping The Cache Flush

Phoronix - Thu, 08/19/2021 - 18:00
A minor optimization was posted by an AMD engineer on Wednesday for the Linux kernel...

Ubuntu 21.10 Likely Sticking To The GNOME 40 Desktop

Phoronix - Thu, 08/19/2021 - 17:39
While Ubuntu normally ships with the very latest GNOME desktop version issued just before release time, with Ubuntu 21.04 they stuck to GNOME 3.38 rather than punting early to GNOME 40. In the Ubuntu 21.10 development packages they since migrated to GNOME 40 but now it looks like they will be sticking to that and not pulling ahead to the near-final GNOME 41...

How to Install WordPress Ubuntu Using LAMP Stack

Tecmint - Thu, 08/19/2021 - 17:04
The post How to Install WordPress Ubuntu Using LAMP Stack first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

For those who cannot afford the hustles of developing websites from scratch, there are now several content management systems (CMSs) such as WordPress that you can take advantage of to set up blogs as

The post How to Install WordPress Ubuntu Using LAMP Stack first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

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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