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Happy 10th anniversary, OpenStack!

opensource.com - Mon, 08/24/2020 - 15:00

OpenStack has transformed the open source industry since it launched 10 years ago. It was an endeavor to bring greater choice in cloud solutions by combining NASA's Nova with Rackspace's Swift object storage and has since grown into a strong base for open infrastructure.


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Origin stories about Unix

opensource.com - Mon, 08/24/2020 - 15:00

Brian W. Kernighan opens his book Unix: A History and a Memoir with the line, "To understand how Unix happened, we have to understand Bell Labs, especially how it worked and the creative environment that it provided." And so begins a wonderful trip back in time, following the creation and development of early Unix with someone who was there.


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How To Install Laravel PHP Framework with Nginx on Ubuntu 20.04

Tecmint - Mon, 08/24/2020 - 14:00

Laravel is the most popular, free, and open-source PHP framework in the world, known for its expressive and elegant syntax. Laravel is accessible, powerful, and offers some of the best web development tools required

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Some Ugly Code Can Get NVIDIA's Linux Driver Working With Accelerated XWayland

Phoronix - Mon, 08/24/2020 - 08:45
Red Hat's Adam Jackson has been working on "GLX Delay" as a means of offering accelerated GLX with OpenGL for XWayland when using the NVIDIA proprietary driver. The proposed code is going through Mesa even though it's for the proprietary NVIDIA driver benefit and also requires a change to the OpenGL Vendor Neutral Dispatch Library (libglvnd)...

Linux 5.9-rc2 Released With EXT4 Updates, More POWER10 Bits

Phoronix - Mon, 08/24/2020 - 06:11
It's been one week already since feature work ended on Linux 5.9 and that means it's time for the 5.9-rc2 kernel. Like clockwork, Linux Torvalds has shipped Linux 5.9-rc2 with the initial batch of bug/regression fixes as well as some late changes for the cycle...

Cachy Is The Latest Effort To Provide A Better Linux CPU Scheduler

Phoronix - Sun, 08/23/2020 - 22:23
Cachy is a Linux CPU scheduler that has been generating some attention over the past month that aims for optimal CPU cache usage and based on a Highest Response Ration Next (HRRN) policy...

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