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From start to finish: How to create a database server on Linux to be used on remote machines  TechRepublic

A long time ago, when I was but a budding computer programmer, we used to work in large batches. We were each assigned a programming task, and then we'd go away and hide in our cubicles and bang on the keyboard. I remember my team members spending hours upon hours in isolation, each of us in our own cubicle, wrestling with challenges to create defect-free apps. The theory was, the larger the batch, the better the evidence that we're awesome problem solvers.

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QR codes are an excellent way to provide information to people without the trouble and expense of printing it. Most people have smartphones that support QR code scanning, regardless of the operating system.

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Global and China Linux Software Market 2026: Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, IBM, Oracle, Novell, etc. – NeighborWebSJ  NeighborWebSJ

Centralized logging, just like security, is a fundamental aspect of monitoring and sound management of core resources in an IT infrastructure including web applications and hardware devices. Competent operation teams always have in place

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Linux 5.11, Pyston, Wayland & Other January Excitement  Phoronix

We love welcoming new users into open source, but also get really excited when our customers come back for a second or third helping of Red Hat. This month, we’re highlighting three customers who achieved incremental benefits after adding on more Red Hat products in their environment. Looking for ways to continue improving your business with the best of enterprise open source?

Linux 5.11, Pyston, Wayland & Other January Excitement  Phoronix

From Linux 5.11 adventures to the AMD CES keynote to many open-source software advancements, there was a lot of activity during the month of January to take one's mind off the pandemic...

Filmulator is a Simple, Open Source, Raw Image Editor for Linux Desktop  It's FOSS

Linux 5.11-rc6 is out ahead of the stable release of Linux 5.11 coming in February...

Linux 5.11-rc6 Released With Itanium Support Now Orphaned  Phoronix

Google should really open source Chromium  ZDNet

Point-and-click adventure 'Encodya' launches on PC, Mac and Linux  Entertainment Focus

For those wondering how say AVX heavy a particular program is being benchmarked or if a given program/benchmark supports making use of new instruction set extensions such as Vector AES or forthcoming AVX VNNI or AMX, the Phoronix Test Suite and OpenBenchmarking.org can now provide that insight on a per-test basis with common CPU instruction set extensions...

Taiwins debuted last year as a compact Wayland compositor and focused on being modular with Wayland scripting support. Up to now Taiwins relied upon the WLROOTS effort born out of the Sway project for doing much of the Wayland heavy-lifting but the developer has now replaced it with its own Wayland support library...

Conky system monitor- Widget to view Linux Process, CPU and Memory  H2S Media

Immediately following the CXL 2.0 specification being made public in November, Intel developers began posting Linux enablement patches for CXL 2.0 with an initial focus on type-3 memory device support. It's looking like that CXL 2.0 enablement work is now closer to being mainlined in the Linux kernel...

CXL 2.0 Support For Linux Moves Past "RFC" Phase  Phoronix

Well known AMD open-source driver developer Marek Olšák continues squeezing Mesa for every bit of possible performance, which in recent months has been with a seemingly workstation focus...