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FreeBSD Back To Seeing Progress On 802.11ac WiFi Support, Ath10k Driver

Phoronix - Fri, 07/17/2020 - 15:17
Longtime FreeBSD/Linux network stack developer and former Qualcomm Atheros engineer Adrian Chadd is back to working on FreeBSD wireless networking improvements...

Debug Linux using ProcDump

opensource.com - Fri, 07/17/2020 - 15:02

Microsoft's growing appreciation for Linux and open source is no secret. The company has steadily increased its contributions to open source in the last several years, including porting some of its software and tools to Linux.


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Open source accounting software developed by accountants

opensource.com - Fri, 07/17/2020 - 15:01

Over the last six months, I have been working on GoDBLedger, an open source accounting system that I feel addresses some of the issues that plague current accounting software solutions. Even in my first year as a graduate accountant, the software frustrated me because I have seen what good software can be like and how much it can improve your productivity.


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A brief history of the Content Management System

opensource.com - Fri, 07/17/2020 - 15:00

Content management system (CMS) is a prolific software category that covers all types of applications for the creation and modification of digital content. So it should come as no huge surprise that the history of the CMS traces back to the first website in history, by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990, which was modeled on an internet-based hypertext system HTML, which represented just text and links.


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“Forbidden – You don’t have permission to access / on this server” Error

Tecmint - Fri, 07/17/2020 - 13:38
Apache web server is one of the most popular and widely used opensource web servers thanks to its stability and reliability. The web server commands a huge market, especially in the web hosting platforms.

Cage Wayland Compositor For Kiosk Use-Cases Updated With Direct Scan-Out, New Protocols

Phoronix - Fri, 07/17/2020 - 12:09
Joining Sway 1.5 for an exciting week in the Wayland space is an update to Cage, the Wayland compositor designed for kiosk-like experiences...

Fedora 33 Is Shaping Up To Be One Of Its Biggest Releases Ever

Phoronix - Fri, 07/17/2020 - 08:53
Fedora 33 is easily shaping up to be one of the biggest releases ever for this long-time Linux distribution formerly known as Fedora Core. It's just not a few big features like Fedora desktop variants defaulting to Btrfs but even just on feature count alone it's looking by far to be one of the biggest at least in a number of years if not ever...

DC Display Support Continues To Be Worked On For Radeon GCN 1.0 With AMDGPU Driver

Phoronix - Fri, 07/17/2020 - 06:03
On top of the recent UVD video decode for AMD Radeon "GCN 1.0" GPUs with the AMDGPU kernel driver to complement the existing Radeon kernel driver support, these aging "Southern Islands" graphics cards also continue to see patchwork on enabling "Display Core" (DC) display support with the AMDGPU driver option...

The Linux Performance For AMD Rome vs. Intel Cascade Lake One Year After Launch

Phoronix - Fri, 07/17/2020 - 02:30
With the Intel 2nd Gen Xeon Scalable (Cascade Lake) processors having turned a year old in April and next month marking one year since the launch of the AMD EPYC 7002 (Rome) series, here are fresh benchmarks of the dual Xeon Platinum 8280 versus the AMD EPYC 7742 when testing the Linux software stack from early 2019 and then again using a bleeding-edge Linux software stack as of this month. This shows how the Linux software performance has evolved over the past year for both Intel and AMD on the server front as well as how the current top-end SKUs are competing right now.

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