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GNOME Shell + Mutter 40 Beta Released With Wayland Improvements, Overview Redesign

Phoronix - Tue, 02/23/2021 - 18:58
GNOME 40 beta is coming together with the GNOME Shell and Mutter components having seen new releases on Monday...

A guide to Python virtual environments with virtualenvwrapper

opensource.com - Tue, 02/23/2021 - 16:01

For some time, Python has included support for managing virtual environments. Python 3.3 even added the built-in venv module for creating environments without third-party libraries. Python programmers use several different tools to manage their environments, and the one I use is called virtualenvwrapper.


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What makes the Linux community special?

opensource.com - Tue, 02/23/2021 - 16:00

In 2021, there are more reasons why people love Linux than ever before. In this series, I'll share 21 different reasons to use Linux. The community is a cornerstone reason to use Linux.

Many a Linux user has said that the key feature of Linux is its community. That might seem strange to a new user because "community" is a pretty popular term these days. There are actual jobs for building and managing communities. With communities seemingly a dime a dozen, what makes the Linux community unique?


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How To Prevent PHP-FPM From Consuming Too Much RAM in Linux

Tecmint - Tue, 02/23/2021 - 14:04
The post How To Prevent PHP-FPM From Consuming Too Much RAM in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

If you have deployed a LEMP (Linux, NGINX, MySQL/MariaDB, and PHP) stack, then you are probably using FastCGI proxying within NGINX (as an HTTP server), for PHP processing. PHP-FPM (an acronym of FastCGI Process

The post How To Prevent PHP-FPM From Consuming Too Much RAM in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Introducing Red Hat Vulnerability Scanner Certification

Red Hat News - Tue, 02/23/2021 - 13:00

As container and Kubernetes adoption in production has grown, concerns regarding container security, monitoring, data management and networking remain. In order to address these challenges, organizations must lay a secure foundation for modern workloads. Red Hat is an established leader in security for enterprise open source solutions - container security is Linux security.

dav1d 0.8.2 AV1 Decoder Showing Nice Uplift On Intel, AMD CPUs

Phoronix - Tue, 02/23/2021 - 13:00
Released yesterday was dav1d 0.8.2 as a fairly significant update to this AV1 CPU-based decoder. For those wondering what this update means for performance, here are some initial benchmarks...

systemd 248 RC1 Released With New "System Extension Images" Concept

Phoronix - Tue, 02/23/2021 - 09:28
The first release candidate of systemd 248 is now available with a number of improvements ranging from a new "system extensions images" concept to the out-of-memory daemon (OOMD) being declared stable...

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