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AV1 Codec Library libaom 3.0-rc1 Released

Phoronix - Thu, 03/18/2021 - 19:12
Google has released libaom 3.0.0-rc1 as the AOMedia AV1 Codec Library...

Standalone XWayland Makes It For Ubuntu 21.04 Along With Linux 5.11, Mesa 21.0

Phoronix - Thu, 03/18/2021 - 18:19
As part of planning for Ubuntu 21.04 to use Wayland by default when running on the default GNOME Shell desktop, Ubuntu developers were going to evaluate the standalone XWayland work being pursued by Red Hat initially for Fedora in order to ship newer XWayland code without resorting to releasing a new X.Org Server. That standalone XWayland package is now on its way to the Ubuntu archive...

GCC 11 Squeezes In Another Zen 3 Optimization

Phoronix - Thu, 03/18/2021 - 15:30
Just weeks ahead of the GCC 11 stable release we saw Znver3 tuning work out of SUSE for allowing the GNU Compiler Collection to better cater towards the AMD Zen 3 microarchitecture. That tuning work follows the initial patch at the end of last year that introduced "Znver3" and flipped on the new instructions. Now another patch working on the Zen 3 tuning for GCC has been posted and already merged...

Practice using the Linux grep command

opensource.com - Thu, 03/18/2021 - 15:03

One of the classic Unix commands, developed way back in 1974 by Ken Thompson, is the Global Regular Expression Print (grep) command. It's so ubiquitous in computing that it's frequently used as a verb ("grepping through a file") and, depending on how geeky your audience, it fits nicely into real-world scenarios, too. (For example, "I'll have to grep my memory banks to recall that information.") In short, grep is a way to search through a file for a specific pattern of characters.


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Get started with an open source customer data platform

opensource.com - Thu, 03/18/2021 - 15:01

RudderStack is an open source, warehouse-first customer data pipeline. It collects and routes event stream (or clickstream) data and automatically builds your customer data lake on your data warehouse.


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"Going out of your way to be open": An important practice for executive leaders

opensource.com - Thu, 03/18/2021 - 15:00

Throughout our "Managing with Open Values" series, we've interviewed a number of managers and leaders who shared with us their experiences and practices. In this installment, I interviewed fellow Open Organization Ambassador Sam Knuth to discuss how he lets open values guide his approach to leading large teams.


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Different Ways to Read File in Bash Script Using While Loop

Tecmint - Thu, 03/18/2021 - 13:45
The post Different Ways to Read File in Bash Script Using While Loop first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

This article is all about how to read files in bash scripts using a while loop. Reading a file is a common operation in programming. You should be familiar with different methods and which

The post Different Ways to Read File in Bash Script Using While Loop first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

OpenBLAS 0.3.14 Released With Performance Improvements For AMD Ryzen, POWER10

Phoronix - Thu, 03/18/2021 - 12:00
OpenBLAS 0.3.14 is out today as the newest version of this open-source BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms) library that continues to work on maximizing the performance for x86_64 and other architectures...

Audacity 3.0 Digital Audio Editor Released With New File Format

Phoronix - Thu, 03/18/2021 - 03:16
Audacity 3.0 is out today as a big update to this popular, longtime open-source digital audio editor...

XWayland 21.1 Standalone Released To Offer Better X11 Client On Wayland Experience

Phoronix - Thu, 03/18/2021 - 02:00
With no one willing to step up and manage the X.Org Server 1.21 release and see it through for maintenance, Red Hat engineers who often managed those xorg-server releases are now moving ahead with standalone XWayland releases with that code pulled out of doing a full X.Org Server release and instead isolated to the XWayland bits for handling of X11 clients under Wayland. Today marks the inaugural release with XWayland 21.1.0...

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