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It's been five years and a heck of a journey from being a non-programmer to becoming an associate software engineer at Red Hat. It's a story worth telling—not because I have achieved a lot, but because of so much drama and so many pitfalls. So grab a cup of coffee, and I will share the unturned pages of my love story with technology.

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Linux Mint Reveals WebApp Manager To Turn Websites Into Desktop Apps  Fossbytes

While LLVM's Clang C/C++ compiler was traditionally known for its faster build speeds than GCC, in recent releases of GCC the build speeds have improved and in some areas LLVM/Clang has slowed down with further optimization passes and other work added to its growing code-base. As it stands right now, GCC is faster than Clang at compiling the Linux kernel...

GCC Is Currently Faster Than LLVM's Clang At Compiling The Linux Kernel  phoronix.com

GCC Is Currently Faster Than LLVM's Clang At Compiling The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

Just over twenty years after the Linux From Scratch project was started as a guide/book to building all of the software components manually from source, Linux From Scratch 10.0 has been released...

Linux From Scratch 10.0 Released For Rolling Your Own Linux Installation From Source  Phoronix

Earlier this year Amazon announced Bottlerocket as a Linux distribution for running containers. This week Bottlerocket crossed the general availability milestone...

Amazon's Bottlerocket Hits GA As Linux Distribution Optimized For Containers  Phoronix

As part of my role as a principal communication strategist at an enterprise software company with an open source development model, I publish a regular update about open source community, market, and industry trends. Here are some of my and their favorite articles from that update.

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Intel's open-source engineers today sent out their latest patches bringing up the Dynamic Load Balancer 2.0 for the next-gen PCIe device that offers load-balanced, prioritized scheduling of core-to-core communication...

Intel's Linux Support Coming Together For The Dynamic Load Balancer 2.0  Phoronix

AWS has launched a new Linux distro: Bottlerocket  TechRadar UK

AWS has launched a new Linux distro: Bottlerocket  TechRadar

AWS has launched a new Linux distro: Bottlerocket  TechRadar

One important bit not covered in today's GeForce RTX 3070/3080/3090 announcement but now detailed via the NVIDIA website is confirmation that the RTX 30 "Ampere" GPUs do in fact have dedicated AV1 hardware decode capabilities...

Red Hat And Lenovo Want To ‘Evolve Linux’ As A Laptop OS  Forbes

Not Even Linux Can Stop the Fast Rise of Windows 10  Softpedia News

As widely expected amid a constant flow of rumors and leaks in recent weeks, NVIDIA just revealed their GeForce RTX 3000 "Ampere" series...

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3000 Series Launches With Impressive Specs, Competitive Pricing  Phoronix