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Learn Fortran by writing a "guess the number" game

opensource.com - Mon, 01/04/2021 - 16:02

The first compiled programming language I learned was Fortran 77. While growing up, I taught myself how to write programs in BASIC on the Apple II and later in QBasic on DOS. But when I went to university to study physics, I learned Fortran.

Fortran used to be quite common in scientific computing. And once upon a time, all computer systems had a Fortran compiler. Fortran used to be as ubiquitous as Python is today. So if you were a physics student like me, working in the 1990s, you learned Fortran.


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10 ways Ansible is for everyone

opensource.com - Mon, 01/04/2021 - 16:01

Here we are again at the end of another year with a great set of articles about Ansible from Opensource.com. I thought it would be nice to review them in a series of progressively advancing topics. I hope to help stimulate the interest of people just getting started with Ansible. There were also a series of summary articles, which I've included for your casual follow-up.


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8 Kubernetes insights for 2021

opensource.com - Mon, 01/04/2021 - 16:00

The end of the year is the perfect time to look back and explore where we've been and where we're going in the Kubernetes world. I particularly want to focus on the ecosystem that formed around Kubernetes in 2020, which several great articles on Opensource.com covered. I'll review them in the order they were published.


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How To Migrate Virtualbox VMs Into KVM VMs In Linux

Tecmint - Mon, 01/04/2021 - 11:33

Are you considering making a switch from VirtualBox to KVM hypervisor? One of your greatest concerns would be starting all over again by creating new virtual machines in KVM – an arduous task to

The post How To Migrate Virtualbox VMs Into KVM VMs In Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Linux 5.11-rc2 Released - It's Tiny Due To Developers Offline With "Holiday Things"

Phoronix - Mon, 01/04/2021 - 09:12
The second weekly release candidate of Linux 5.11 is now available for testing...

Linus Torvalds On The Importance Of ECC RAM, Calls Out Intel's "Bad Policies" Over ECC

Phoronix - Mon, 01/04/2021 - 04:48
There's nothing quite like some fun holiday-weekend reading as a fiery mailing list post by Linus Torvalds. The Linux creator is out with one of his classical messages, which this time is arguing over the importance of ECC memory and his opinion on how Intel's "bad policies" and market segmentation have made ECC memory less widespread...

dav1d 0.8 Released With More Optimizations - More AMD Performance

Phoronix - Mon, 01/04/2021 - 04:16
Dav1d 0.8 was released this weekend (and subsequently 0.8.1 too) as the latest major release for this CPU-based AV1 decoder hosted by the VideoLAN project. Dav1d continues to be about offering the best AV1 decode speed and with the v0.8 series are even faster results -- so here are some of our initial data points as well from some weekend benchmarking...

BleachBit 4.2.0 - Neowin

Google News - Mon, 01/04/2021 - 03:32
BleachBit 4.2.0  Neowin

New + Updated Benchmarks For December 2020

Phoronix - Sun, 01/03/2021 - 23:26
In ending out a strong year for OpenBenchmarking.org growth in 2020, there were also many test profile updates and some new test profiles (benchmarks) that were made available in December for Phoronix Test Suite / OpenBenchmarking.org users...

LLVM Adds Initial Support For PowerPC LE

Phoronix - Sun, 01/03/2021 - 23:04
LLVM has added support for PowerPC LE as its newest target...

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