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Linux 5.10 To Bring Some Improvements For Newer Lenovo Laptops

Phoronix - Mon, 09/14/2020 - 19:09
With Lenovo working to expand their Linux line-up and already Fedora being offered on the ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 8, more Linux support improvements are on the way...

AMDVLK 2020.Q3.5 Vulkan Driver Released With Several Game Fixes

Phoronix - Mon, 09/14/2020 - 18:45
AMD has kicked off the new week with the release of AMDVLK 2020.Q3.5 as their official open-source Radeon Vulkan driver for Linux systems derived in part from the same sources as their Windows Vulkan driver...

FuryBSD 2020-Q3 Released For This Xfce/KDE FreeBSD Desktop Distribution

Phoronix - Mon, 09/14/2020 - 18:27
FuryBSD 2020-Q3 is out as the newest quarterly feature release to this BSD distribution built atop FreeBSD and focused on providing a pleasant desktop experience and one that can function as a LiveDVD for trying out the desktop BSD without installation...

Qbs 1.17 Released With This Build System Still Alive

Phoronix - Mon, 09/14/2020 - 18:09
Back in late 2018 there was the decision by The Qt Company to deprecate Qbs in favor of CMake. The Qbs build system hasn't been actively worked on by The Qt Company in one year but some community members have been still hacking on it leading to today's Qbs 1.17 release...

How to Install Yii PHP Framework on Ubuntu

Tecmint - Mon, 09/14/2020 - 15:46

Yii (pronounced Yee or [ji:]) is a free and open-source, fast, high performance, secure, flexible yet pragmatic, and efficient generic web programming framework for developing all kinds of web applications using PHP. In this

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Use Python to solve a charity's business problem

opensource.com - Mon, 09/14/2020 - 15:01

In my first article in this series, I described a problem of dividing bulk supplies into hampers of similar value to distribute to struggling neighbors in your community. I also wrote about how I enjoy solving small problems like this with small programs in various languages and comparing how they do it.


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How Nextcloud simplified the signup process for decentralization

opensource.com - Mon, 09/14/2020 - 15:00

We always had a nice list of dozens of Nextcloud providers, yet the most common question I heard, even from technically apt friends of mine, was:

"Hi, Jan, umm…so, which Nextcloud provider do you recommend?"

Which is, of course, understandable. If you have a long list of providers, how do you choose? Hosted nearby? Cute name? Biggest logo?

Every decentralized open source solution using servers struggles with this:


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