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More Intel Core i5 11600K, Core i9 11900K Benchmarks

Phoronix - Wed, 03/31/2021 - 18:35
Along with our Intel Core i5 11600K + Core i9 11900K Linux review from yesterday with 22 pages of benchmarks, even more performance data is now published and continues to flow in via OpenBenchmarking.org for looking at the Intel Rocket Lake performance across hundreds of benchmarks and compared to many other processors we have tested and that of the community...

GNOME 41 To Introduce Libadwaita For Helping To Define GNOME Apps

Phoronix - Wed, 03/31/2021 - 18:00
GNOME 41 this autumn will be shipping with libadwaita, the successor and GTK4 port to GNOME's libhandy that will help to define the visual language and user experience for GNOME applications...

OBS Studio Now Ready With Wayland Capture Support

Phoronix - Wed, 03/31/2021 - 17:34
Well known GNOME developer Georges Stavracas has been working to make OBS Studio fully-working under Wayland and today that reality has been achieved with native Wayland support and the ability to capture monitors and windows on Wayland compositors...

3 reasons I use the Git cherry-pick command

opensource.com - Wed, 03/31/2021 - 15:01

Finding your way around a version control system can be tricky. It can be massively overwhelming for a newbie, but being well-versed with the terminology and the basics of a version control system like Git is one of the baby steps to start contributing to open source.

Being familiar with Git can also help you out of sticky situations in your open source journey. Git is powerful and makes you feel in control—there is not a single way in which you cannot revert to a working version.


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Use this open source tool to monitor variables in Python

opensource.com - Wed, 03/31/2021 - 15:00

When debugging code, you're often faced with figuring out when a variable changes. Without any advanced tools, you have the option of using print statements to announce the variables when you expect them to change. However, this is a very ineffective way because the variables could change in many places, and constantly printing them to a terminal is noisy, while printing them to a log file becomes unwieldy.


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"PKRAM" Revived For Preserving Memory Pages Across Kexec'ing Kernels

Phoronix - Wed, 03/31/2021 - 14:30
Patches back in 2013 were proposed for "PRAM" as persistent over-kexec memory storage to allow saving of memory pages across kernel reboots via kexec or when hitting a new kernel via kexec. Nearly one year ago Oracle retook up the effort and sent out PKRAM as their "preserved-over-Kexec" RAM and now finally a second iteration of PKRAM has been published...

Gdu – A Pretty Fast Disk Usage Analyzer for Linux

Tecmint - Wed, 03/31/2021 - 13:17
The post Gdu – A Pretty Fast Disk Usage Analyzer for Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

In this article, we will take a look at gdu an open-source disk usage analyzer written in go. Gdu is inspired by godu, dua, ncdu, and df. The gdu tool is created for SSD

The post Gdu – A Pretty Fast Disk Usage Analyzer for Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

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