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Build a successful community using a Linux leader's playbook

opensource.com - Sat, 09/26/2020 - 15:00

I love books about technology. My idea of a relaxing weekend is—legitimately—settling in with my copy of DocBook: The Definitive Guide (TDG to those of us who us who've read the whole series). I love learning to understand and integrate technology, and so those are the books I read.


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How to Add or Remove a User from a Group in Linux

Tecmint - Sat, 09/26/2020 - 14:46

Linux is by default a multi-user system (meaning many users can connect to it simultaneously and work), thus user management is one of the fundamental tasks of a system administrator. User management includes everything

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Apple Open-Sources Swift System, Adds Linux Support

Phoronix - Sat, 09/26/2020 - 12:00
Earlier this year Apple engineers announced Swift System as their new library for low-level system interfaces. They have now open-sourced Swift System while also introducing Linux support...

AMD Sends Out Linux Kernel Support For Van Gogh APUs - Confirms DDR5 Memory, VCN3

Phoronix - Sat, 09/26/2020 - 04:37
As a nice Friday afternoon patch series there is the 275k lines of code for wiring up the next-generation AMD Van Gogh APU support under Linux...

Wine 5.18 Released With VKD3D 1.2's vkd3d-shader Usage

Phoronix - Sat, 09/26/2020 - 04:15
Wine 5.18 is out as the newest bi-weekly feature development release...

NVIDIA GeForce vs. AMD Radeon Vulkan Neural Network Performance With NCNN

Phoronix - Sat, 09/26/2020 - 02:35
With having added Tencent's NCNN tests to the Phoronix Test Suite with Vulkan acceleration, here is a look at the real-world impact by using RealSR-NCNN for scaling up with RealSR. Various NVIDIA GeForce and AMD Radeon graphics cards were tested for this initial NCNN / RealSR-NCNN Vulkan comparison.

Firefox Nightly Flips On New JIT "Warp" Code For Greater JavaScript Performance

Phoronix - Sat, 09/26/2020 - 01:33
Mozilla's SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine team have been working on a big update to their just-in-time compiler code. This big update called "Warp" is now enabled in the latest Firefox Nightly builds for offering big speed-ups...

Linux 5.10 To See RAID10 DISCARD Improvement - From 259 Seconds To Less Than 1 Second

Phoronix - Sat, 09/26/2020 - 01:05
Queued today into the block subsystem's "-next" area ahead of the Linux 5.10 cycle kicking off next month are some MD RAID enhancements...

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