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AMD Preparing More Linux Code For The Frontier Supercomputer  Phoronix

Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu 21.04 On The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X  Phoronix

Earlier this month were benchmarks looking at Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu 21.04 on an AMD Ryzen 9 5900X desktop to which Ubuntu came out roughly 8% faster than the Microsoft OS on average. But what about the difference for HEDT systems? Given the more radical performance difference we have seen in the past with Windows vs. Linux for Threadripper systems, here are some recently conducted benchmarks on that front with the 64-core Threadripper 3990X.

How to install Gnome GUI on Almalinux 8.4 - Linux Shout  H2S Media

Microsoft Unveils Windows 10 Perks for Developers  Redmondmag.com

Red Hat Brings Red Hat Universal Base Image to Docker Hub  Business Wire

How to achieve persistent SSH connections with the open source MOSH  TechRepublic

Over the past year developers from Igalia, Collabora, and others have been involved in bringing up support for the OpenGL EXT_external_objects extension within the Intel open-source drivers. That work is now squared away as one of the pieces for offering better interoperability between OpenGL and Vulkan...

Syxsense Releases New Linux Remote Terminal and Troubleshooting Tools  StreetInsider.com

Syxsense Releases New Linux Remote Terminal and Troubleshooting Tools  PRNewswire

Syxsense Releases New Linux Remote Terminal and Troubleshooting Tools  Yahoo Finance

How to install Firefox on a Chromebook  TechRadar

While other mobile operating systems have for years been on a 64-bit software stack and in the process of phasing out 32-bit app support, Jolla is celebrating Sailfish 4.1 as finally marking their first fully 64-bit Sailfish OS software stack -- for use currently just with the Sony Xperia 10 II smartphone...

Kali Linux team releases Kaboxer, a tool for managing applications in containers - Help Net Security  Help Net Security

Last month with the Radeon Software for Linux 21.10 driver there was finally Vulkan ray-tracing support added to that proprietary Vulkan driver component, the first time that Vulkan ray-tracing has been available on Linux for any AMD Radeon 6000 series graphics card across the multiple driver options. Last month I posted some initial Vulkan ray-tracing AMD vs. NVIDIA Linux benchmarks while questions were raised how well the driver performs with NVIDIA's Quake II RTX port. Here are some initial benchmarks for those wondering...

Quake II RTX Performance For AMD Radeon 6000 Series vs. NVIDIA On Linux  Phoronix

Fedora Linux 32 Reached End of Life, Upgrade to Fedora Linux 34 Now  LXer

Qt Multimedia should return for Qt 6.2's release later this year and is perhaps the module changing the most in its transition from Qt5 to Qt6...

While working on a continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD) solution for a customer, one of my first tasks was to automate the bootstrapping of a CI/CD Jenkins server in OpenShift. Following DevOps best practices, I quickly created a configuration file that drove a script to complete the job. That quickly became two configuration files when I realized I needed a separate Jenkins server for production.

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More than 20 years ago, when Robert Maynord started teaching at Immaculate Heart of Mary School in Monona, Wisconsin, the school had only eight functioning computers, all running Windows 95. Through his expertise in and enthusiasm for Linux and open source software, Robert has transformed the school community, its faculty, and its students, who are in kindergarten to eighth grade.

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