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Debian 11 "Bullseye" Begins Its Soft Freeze

Phoronix - Sun, 02/14/2021 - 03:34
Debian 11.0 "Bullseye" is now under its soft freeze, one month after starting its build-essentials freeze...

FreeBSD 13 BETA2 Released With Working 32-bit Builds, Kernel TLS Offload

Phoronix - Sun, 02/14/2021 - 01:17
Following last weekend's release of FreeBSD 13 BETA1, the second beta is now available for testing this big BSD operating system update...

IDMAPPED Mounts Aim For Linux 5.12 - Many New Use-Cases From Containers To Systemd-Homed

Phoronix - Sat, 02/13/2021 - 22:00
Ahead of the Linux 5.12 merge window expected to open at end of day tomorrow, assuming Linux 5.11 is out on schedule, there is already a pending pull request with a big feature addition: IDMAPPED mounts...

Wine-Staging 6.2 Drops Down To 669 Patches

Phoronix - Sat, 02/13/2021 - 20:32
Two weeks ago with Wine-Staging 6.1 it was at nearly 800 patches atop the upstream Wine code-base while for Wine-Staging 6.2 it has fallen to just a 669 patch difference...

Plasma 5.21 Continues Seeing Lots Of Fixes Ahead Of Next Week's Release

Phoronix - Sat, 02/13/2021 - 19:27
Plasma 5.21 is due for release on 16 February and as such developers have been busy working on bug fixing for the final stretch of development...

Data Suggests CoC + Outreachy Hasn't Helped Increase Female Participation In Debian

Phoronix - Sat, 02/13/2021 - 19:15
An informal case study suggests that since Debian enacted its Code of Conduct and began participating in the Outreachy internship program hasn't helped in increasing female participation within the open-source project but is actually trending lower compared to the early years of this original GNU/Linux distribution...

5 reasons why I love coding on Linux

opensource.com - Sat, 02/13/2021 - 16:01

In 2021, there are more reasons why people love Linux than ever before. In this series, I'll share 21 different ways to use Linux. Here I'll explain why so many programmers choose Linux.


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How open source provides students with real-world experience

opensource.com - Sat, 02/13/2021 - 16:00

In the movie The Secret of My Success, Brantley Foster (played by Michael J. Fox) expresses the exact thought that goes through every new graduate's mind: "How can I get any experience until I get a job that gives me experience?"

The hardest thing to do when starting a new career is to get experience. Often this creates a paradox. How do you get work with no experience, and how do you get experience with no work?


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OpenMandriva Lx 4.2 Released For This Linux Distro Built By The Clang Compiler

Phoronix - Sat, 02/13/2021 - 15:20
One year after OpenMandriva Lx 4.1 released, OpenMandriva Lx 4.2 is now available. Continuing to make OpenMandriva Lx rather unique among Linux distributions is its use of the LLVM Clang compiler by default rather than GCC. Another unique "selling point" of OpenMandriva is its AMD Zen optimized version where the entire package set is rebuilt with Zen optimizations...

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