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Fedora 35 Cleared For Golang 1.17, LLVM 13

Phoronix - Tue, 08/17/2021 - 17:45
While getting late in the cycle, the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee approved some additional changes for Fedora 35 due out this fall...

Ubuntu 21.10 Systemd To Finally Ship With Cgroup v2 By Default

Phoronix - Tue, 08/17/2021 - 17:25
Ubuntu developers acknowledge "delaying this for a long time" but for Ubuntu 21.10 they are planning to ship its systemd package with the unified cgroup hierarchy (Cgroups v2) by default...

27 Best IDEs for C/C++ Programming or Source Code Editors on Linux

Tecmint - Tue, 08/17/2021 - 16:39
The post 27 Best IDEs for C/C++ Programming or Source Code Editors on Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

C++, an extension of well known C language, is an excellent, powerful and general-purpose programming language that offers modern and generic programming features for developing large-scale applications ranging from video games, search engines, other

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How to Install Docker on Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux

Tecmint - Tue, 08/17/2021 - 15:14
The post How to Install Docker on Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Docker is a hugely popular containerization platform tool that allows users to develop, test and deploy applications in a smooth and efficient manner inside containers. A container is a lightweight and portable unit that

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4 alternatives to cron in Linux

opensource.com - Tue, 08/17/2021 - 15:01

The Linux cron system is a time-tested and proven technology. However, it's not always the right tool for system automation. There are a few other open source projects out there that can be used either in conjunction with cron or instead of cron.


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Git 2.33 Released With New "merge-ort" Merging For 500~9000x Speed-Up

Phoronix - Tue, 08/17/2021 - 08:24
Git 2.33 is out this evening as the latest stable update to this immensely successful open-source distributed revision control system...

AMD Posts Linux Patches In Preparing For DisplayPort 2.0 Radeon GPU Support

Phoronix - Tue, 08/17/2021 - 07:05
The latest feature display work to happen for the AMDGPU kernel driver since the debut of FreeSync HDMI in Linux 5.13 is around DisplayPort 2.0 support and specifically the SST UHBR10 handling...

LLVM Clang 14 Begins Landing Intel AVX-512 FP16 Support

Phoronix - Tue, 08/17/2021 - 02:33
Last month Intel began posting the developer documentation around AVX-512 FP16 support coming with Sapphire Rapids and initially accompanied by GCC compiler patches along with LLVM/Clang. While that GNU Compiler Collection support around AVX-512 FP16 has yet to be merged, the LLVM Clang support for this next iteration of AVX-512 has begun landing...

Tesseract 5.0 OCR Engine Bringing Faster Performance With "Fast Floats"

Phoronix - Tue, 08/17/2021 - 01:58
Tesseract as the leading open-source optical character recognition (OCR) engine that employs neural networks for converting images/scans of text into actual recognized text is nearing its 5.0 release...

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