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PHP 8.1 Performance Is Continuing To Improve With Early Benchmarks

Phoronix - Thu, 07/15/2021 - 19:20
Each PHP release continues to improve in the department of performance. Even after the sizable performance improvements made with PHP 7, PHP 8 is continuing to further optimize the performance regardless of using its new JIT. While there still are several months to go until the official PHP 8.1 release, here are a few early benchmarks looking at the PHP CLI performance of PHP 8.1 and prior PHP releases...

AMD's Modern Graphics Driver In Linux 5.14 Exceeds 3.3 Million Lines Of Code

Phoronix - Thu, 07/15/2021 - 18:33
It was just four years ago the AMDGPU kernel driver was nearly one million lines of code and earlier this year began nearing three million lines. Now with Linux 5.14-rc1 released this week it is at over 3.3 million lines for this kernel graphics driver...

Memory Folios Updated A 14th Time For Improving Linux Memory Management

Phoronix - Thu, 07/15/2021 - 18:00
Matthew Wilcox of Oracle has sent out his 14th revision to the memory "folios" patch-set for this new struct that aims to improve Linux's memory management code and ultimately better performance...

Display Stream Compression Prepped For Qualcomm's MSM DRM Driver

Phoronix - Thu, 07/15/2021 - 17:45
Patches have been posted for wiring up Display Stream Compression (DSC) support for the Qualcomm MSM Direct Rendering Manager driver...

Monitor your home's temperature and humidity with Raspberry Pis and Prometheus

opensource.com - Thu, 07/15/2021 - 15:02

Data is beautiful. As a #CitizenScientist, I enjoy gathering data and trying to make sense of the world around me. At work, we use Prometheus to gather metric data from our clusters, and at home, I use Prometheus to gather data from my hobbies. This article explores how to take an application—a Python script that gathers temperature and humidity data from a sensor—and instrument it to provide data in a model that Prometheus can gather.


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5 hidden gems in Python 3

opensource.com - Thu, 07/15/2021 - 15:01

Python has made a name for itself in the world of programming for being easy to learn, easy to read, and reasonably easy to debug. It's seen as a good starting language because it can usually resolve complex concepts such as data types on the programmer's behalf. It's considered easy to read because its syntax is simple and it enforces predictable formatting. And it's easy to debug because not only does it catch many errors on its own, it also integrates with advanced tools like GNU Debugger (gdb.) And that was its reputation before Python 3.


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Japan at a crossroads: How open organization principles aided the country's economic resurgence

opensource.com - Thu, 07/15/2021 - 15:00

At the start of the millennium, Japan was at an economic crossroads. Japanese firms urgently needed to rethink their business strategies and approaches in order to adapt to changing geopolitical and market conditions. In The Business Reinvention of Japan, author Ulrike Schaede describes how Japan succeeded in doing this.


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How to Install OwnCloud to Create Own Cloud Storage in Linux

Tecmint - Thu, 07/15/2021 - 14:30
The post How to Install OwnCloud to Create Own Cloud Storage in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Cloud storage stands for a virtualized pool of network storage most commonly hosted by third parties. Cloud storage is a network-based service that physically does not exist but remains somewhere in the cloud. To

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How to Install LEMP Stack on Rocky Linux 8

Tecmint - Thu, 07/15/2021 - 13:52
The post How to Install LEMP Stack on Rocky Linux 8 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

LEMP is a popular stack that comprises open-source software that is collectively used to host and serve web applications, whether in production or any stage along the development cycle. The terminology LEMP is an

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AMD Zen 3 APU Temperature Monitoring Narrowly Misses Linux 5.14

Phoronix - Thu, 07/15/2021 - 04:30
Landing into "hwmon-next" just after the Linux 5.14-rc1 tagging that marks the formal end to feature work for the current cycle was the k10temp driver adding support for AMD Zen 3 APU temperature monitoring under Linux...

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