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How to set up and run WordPress for your classroom

opensource.com - Fri, 04/17/2020 - 15:01

There are many good reasons to set up WordPress for your classroom. As more schools switch to online classes, WordPress can become the go-to content management system. Teachers using WordPress can provide a number of different educational choices to differentiate instruction for their students. Blogging is an accessible way to create content that energizes student learning. Teachers can write short stories, poems, and provide picture galleries that function as story starters. Students can comment and those comments can be moderated by their teacher.


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Is reporting 100% of code coverage reasonable?

opensource.com - Fri, 04/17/2020 - 15:00

The Foundation for Public Code works to enable open and collaborative public-purpose software for public organizations (like local governments) internationally. We do this by supporting software at the codebase level through codebase stewardship. We also publish the Standard for Public Code (draft version 0.1.4 at the time of this writing), which helps open source codebase communities build solutions that can be reused successfully by other organizations.


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Ubuntu Begins Offering A Rolling Release Kernel For The Amazon Cloud

Phoronix - Fri, 04/17/2020 - 13:27
Canonical is transitioning Ubuntu's support in the Amazon AWS environment to have a rolling-release model for its kernel albeit other packages will remain under their traditional stable release update handling. At least though it's good they will be more punctually offering new kernel versions in the cloud..

Red Hat and ZTE Collaborate to Help Accelerate 5G Deployments

Red Hat News - Fri, 04/17/2020 - 12:00

Red Hat and ZTE have developed a new solution aimed at helping service providers more effectively deploy virtual network functions (VNFs) for Red Hat OpenStack Platform on ZTE XCLOUD hardware. This collaboration is designed to aid telecommunications companies gain greater traction in deploying 5G services with the backing of a common telco cloud infrastructure.

Fedora 32 Delayed From Releasing Next Week Due To Bugs

Phoronix - Fri, 04/17/2020 - 12:00
Hopefully it won't be like many Fedora releases in the past that were dragged out for weeks at a time due to blocker bugs (thankfully, recent Fedora releases have been tremendously better in that regard), but Fedora 32 will not be debuting next week as planned due to bugs...

Facebook + Intel Get Open-Source FSP Booting On Xeon Scalable

Phoronix - Fri, 04/17/2020 - 09:11
Facebook and Intel have been working on being able to enable Xeon Scalable Open Compute Project systems with an open-source FSP...

Wine Finally Starting To See Work On Better USB Support

Phoronix - Fri, 04/17/2020 - 07:37
It looks like better support for Windows programs running under Wine interacting directly with USB devices could finally be on the horizon...

OpenJDK 15 To Have Better Out-Of-The-Box Performance

Phoronix - Fri, 04/17/2020 - 04:10
It turns out our recent OpenJDK 8 through OpenJDK 14 benchmarks caught some on Oracle's Java team by surprise. But they were able to replicate the outcome and as a result OpenJDK 15 will be seeing better out-of-the-box performance...

Ubuntu Server 20.04 CPU Security Mitigation Performance Impact

Phoronix - Fri, 04/17/2020 - 03:00
Earlier this week I published new benchmarks looking at the desktop CPU security mitigation impact with Ubuntu 20.04. Here are similar tests done in looking at the server mitigation impact with the near-final Ubuntu 20.04 LTS while testing server workloads on Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC server platforms. Like the desktop tests, the mitigation impact with the out-of-the-box protections against Spectre, Meltdown, and friends is being compared to booting the same Ubuntu 20.04 release with "mitigations=off" for run-time disabling of the relevant mitigations on each platform.

Mir 1.8 Released With HiDPI Improvements, Better Compatibility Outside Of Ubuntu

Phoronix - Fri, 04/17/2020 - 00:42
Mir 1.8 is available today as the newest feature update to this display stack developed by Canonical that currently is focused on providing a pleasant Wayland compositor experience especially for kiosk-type environments and others wanting to transition from X11 to Wayland...

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