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Monitor your Java on Linux with jconsole

opensource.com - Sat, 10/02/2021 - 15:00

The Java Development Kit (JDK) provides binaries, tools, and compilers for the development of Java applications. One helpful tool included is jconsole.

To demonstrate, I will use the WildFly J2EE application server, which is part of the JBOSS open source application server project. First, I start up a standalone instance.


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Nearly Two Decades Later, ATI Radeon R300 Linux Driver Sees Occasional Improvement

Phoronix - Sat, 10/02/2021 - 07:30
While earlier this year AMD shifted their Radeon Software driver focus to only supporting Polaris / GCN 1.4 and newer, when it comes to the open-source driver support on Linux there still is occasional activity going back to the ATI Radeon R300 days from nearly two decades ago...

Red Hat / Fedora To Focus On Driving New Linux Video Improvements Around PipeWire

Phoronix - Sat, 10/02/2021 - 01:51
PipeWire from the start was designed around handling the needs of both audio and video streams on Linux. While PipeWire is already in use for screencasting/recording under Wayland and working with Flatpak'ed applications, recently much of PipeWire's focus has been on addressing the use-cases of JACK and PulseAudio on the sound side. Now that the audio support is in quite good shape, Red Hat engineers are back to focusing on improvements to the video support...

Fedora Server 35 Performance Looking Good - Initial Benchmarks With Intel Xeon Ice Lake

Phoronix - Fri, 10/01/2021 - 21:23
Given this week's release of Fedora 35 Beta I have begun my benchmarking to look at how this next installment of Fedora Linux is shaping up given that it tends to be at the forefront of open-source innovations given Red Hat's investments. For our initial F35 benchmarking is looking at the Fedora Server 35 Beta performance compared to Fedora 35 on a dual Intel Xeon Platinum 8380 server.

LLVM 13.0 Released With Official Flang Binary Packages, Improved OpenCL Clang Support

Phoronix - Fri, 10/01/2021 - 21:02
LLVM 13.0 was tagged overnight as the latest half-year update to this widely-used, very powerful open-source compiler stack...

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