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Taiwins 0.3 Released As Newest Wayland Compositor Release

Phoronix - Tue, 05/04/2021 - 15:30
Introduced last year was Taiwins as a compact Wayland compositor. While early on it began using Sway's WLROOTS library, it ended up writing its own Wayland compositor library (libtaiwins) and recently hit its version 0.3 milestone...

How to Install and Setup Apache Spark on Ubuntu/Debian

Tecmint - Tue, 05/04/2021 - 15:24
The post How to Install and Setup Apache Spark on Ubuntu/Debian first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Apache Spark is an open-source distributed computational framework that is created to provide faster computational results. It is an in-memory computational engine, meaning the data will be processed in memory. Spark supports various APIs

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Keep multiple Linux distros on a USB with this open source tool

opensource.com - Tue, 05/04/2021 - 15:01

Giving friends and neighbors a bootable USB drive containing your favorite Linux distribution is a great way to introduce neophyte Linux users to the experience we all enjoy. There are still a large number of folks who have never heard of Linux, and putting your favorite distribution on a bootable USB drive is a great way to break the ice.


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5 ways the Star Wars universe embraces open source

opensource.com - Tue, 05/04/2021 - 15:00

Let's get one thing straight up front: there's nothing open about the Star Wars franchise in real life (although its owner does publish some open source code). Star Wars is a tightly controlled property with nothing published under a free-culture license.


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How to Monitor Linux Server and Process Metrics from Browser

Tecmint - Tue, 05/04/2021 - 12:31
The post How to Monitor Linux Server and Process Metrics from Browser first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

In the past, we’ve covered lots of command-line-based tools for monitoring Linux performance, such as top, htop, atop, glances, and more, and a number of web-based tools such as cockpit, pydash, linux-dash, just to

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MLCommons seeks to simplify sharing ML models with MLCube

Red Hat News - Tue, 05/04/2021 - 12:00

Since the launch of MLCommons, Red Hat has been an active participant in the MLCube project hosted by the Best Practices Working Group.

Trinity Desktop R14.0.10 Released For Those Still Loving KDE 3

Phoronix - Tue, 05/04/2021 - 08:31
For those still having fond memories of the KDE 3.5 desktop, the Trinity Desktop Environment continues to be maintained in 2021 as a long-running fork from KDE 3.5 with security/maintenance fixes and other minor enhancements to the desktop environment...

IO_uring Squeezes More Performance With Linux 5.13

Phoronix - Tue, 05/04/2021 - 06:08
Merged as part of the block subsystem changes for the Linux 5.13 were the usual assortment of enhancements to the exciting IO_uring. With this next kernel there is yet even better performance out of this morning Linux I/O interface...

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